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the base. Petioles about an inch long, channelled, smooth. 
Umbels between the leaves, compound, peduncled. Pe- 
duncles short, round, smooth. Pedicels twice as long as 
the peduncles, one-flowered. Bractes subulate ; mixed 
amongst the insertions of the pedicels, Flowers numerous, 
large, colour a most beautiful mixture of purple, red-pur- 
ple and white. Calyx five-leaved ; leaflets linear, acute, 
’ scarcely half the length of the corol. Corol ; tube globular, 
Segments of the border three-angular, (not contorted.) 
Nectarium as in Asclepias gigantea, but shorter. Indeed 
the whole plant comes so exceedingly near that beautiful 
species, that by a common observer it may be taken for 
the same, though very different, particularly in having 
petioled leaves, and a globular tube the corol. Follicles 
two; but I have not seen any that were full grown. 
_ Like Asclepias gigantea, and most other plants of the 
same order, every part is replete with much acrid, milky 
26. A. tenacissima. R. 
Leaves \ong-petioled, exactly-cordate, fine-pointed, 
villous. Panicles drooping. Genitalia obovate. Follicles 
ovate-oblong, obtuse, tomentose. . 
This plant is a native of the mountains near Rajemahl, 
and the fibres of its bark are employed by the inhabitants Fe 
to make their bow strings. ? 
notice of in 1 1800 by Mr. w. ikea) junior, job ' 
wild on the above mentioned hills, and by him introduc-_ 
ed into the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, where the plants : 
thrive luxuriantly, blossom in April, and ripen their 
seed about ten months afterwards. , 
Stem perennial, twining over trees, &c. to a very great 
extent, and in general about as thick asa large ratan, 
7 po oa bad young shoots downy. From wounds tl 
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