54 PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. Asclepias, 
lower part of the stigma. Stumina ; receptacles affixed 
to the base of the stigma. Anthers nearly erect. Style sin- 
gle. Stigma globular, smooth, pearl-coloured, half hid 
in the mouth of the tube, round its underside ten pits are 
found, corresponding with the ten anthers. — Follicles o- 
vate-lanceolate, spreading, smooth, and fleshy, length.a- 
bout four inches, and one in diameter where thickest. 
_ Dr. Buchanan informed me that from the leaves of this. 
plant, the Burman people prepare a green dye. It is 
probable that those people forgot to inform the Doctor 
that it was necessary to dye the cloth yellow, either 
before or after the application of the colour prepared from 
the leaves of this plant ; in which case it will be the se- 
cond species of Asclepias described, and figured by me, 
which yields Indigo; though, for my own part, 1 have not 
succeeded in proctring that material from the leaves. 
28, A. pulchella. R. 
Shrubby, twining. Leaves long-petioled, round-cordate 
acuminate, smooth. Racemes long-peduncled ; . “genitalia. 
subcylindric, ‘with ‘the fiye exterior lamina of the nec- 
tary long, and subulate ; converging into an open dome 
high over the common stigma. 
Ada-kodien. Rheed. mal, 9. t. 7. would be a tolerably 
good representation of this elegant plant, if the fascicles 
of flowers were long-peduncled. : 
It is anextensive, perennial, twining species, a native 
of the forests of Silhet, where it is called Kulum. Flower-. 
ing time, tlie rainy scason. : 
Stems and branches twining ; young shoots "perfectly. 
smooth and deep green, Leaves opposite, long-petioled, 
cordate, entire, smooth, acuminate, from four to eight . 
inches long, and from three to six broad. Hacemes very 
long-peduncled, sometimes proliferous ; by age the rachis : 
lengthens into the form of a short raceme. Flowers very. : 
ee, pure whi s ee, Calyx. five- yarted, 
