207 | ian 
Habitat, East Indies. 
Quality, Alterative and sudorific. 
Elephantiasis, venereal diseases, chronic cutaneous affections, worms. 
Vincetoxicum. Moench. 
Coronet without accessory processes, scutelliform, fleshy, with 5-10 lobes ; 
_ tube very short 
V. officinale Meench. Cynanchum vincetoxicum. 
anches with two hairy lines ; leaves cordate, ovate-lanceolate, ciliated ; 
eymes shorter than the leaves ; stem erect ; flowers white. 
abitat. South of Europe. 
. Emetic, purgative. 
Uses. An old antidote to poisons. 
“ae SotenostemMa, Hayne. 
oronet raised on a long shaft, with 5 obtuse concave processes at its base, 
__ opposite the lobes of the corolla. 
Ss. Argel Hayne. Cynanchum Argel Delile—(Areuet.) Fig. 280. 
a 2 feet high, erect, branched ; leaves lanceolate, leathery, nearly 
- Yeinless, wrinkled and downy on the under side. 
281 
Fotine 2” Guallersbie proportion of many samples of Alexandrian senna, but 
eadily known by the thick leathery texture of the leaves, which are veinless, 
Wrinkled, and downy. 
| Hemiwpesmus. &. Brown. Pees 
ét0. Corolla rotate. Filaments not united upwards; anthers free 
from the stigma, with 20 pollen masses. ee 
indicus R. Brown.—(Inpian Sansapanita.) Fig. 28]. 
_twining ; leaves narrow oblong, obtuse at each end ; flowers 
axillary, nearly sessile. eke ae . 
Fig. 280.—Solenostemma Argel in flower ; 281. Hemidesmus indicus. 
