1792 



^ CALOTROPIS pioccra. 



Tall Calotroph. 



PENTANDRIA DIGY^UA. 



Nat. Orel. Asclepi.adi::^, R. Br. {Introduction to the Natvral Sysfem 

 of Botany, p. 210.; 



CALOTROPIS.— Sujju), vol. l.fol. 58. 



C. procera ; corollas laciniis patulis. R. Br. in Hort. Kew. eel, 2. 2. 78. 

 Asclepias procera. Hort. Kew. 1. 305. Willd. sp.pl. 1. 1263. 

 Asclepias gigantea. Andr. Reposit. t. 271. 

 Beidelsar. Prosp. Alp. agypt. cap. 25. c. iv. 



'^This plant was raised in the garden of Sir Charles 

 Lemon, Bart., M. P., at Carclew, in June 1832, from seeds 

 collected by Lieut. James Sulivan, R. N., at Porto Praya, 

 St. Jago. In the note which accompanied the seed it is 

 described as being ** a shrub or small tree growing from 10 

 to 20 feet high, and flowering in clusters at the ends of the 

 branches. Leaves six inches long. Pod about the size of 

 the leaf, called by the natives cahnady.'' With us it 

 appears to be a tender, lactescent, upright growing, deci- 

 duous shrub, requiring the constant heat of the stove, and 

 thriving in a soil composed of sandy loam, and decayed 

 vegetable earth. It flowered in April. 



'* Stem round, pale green, and together with the leaves 

 thickly covered with hoary pubescence which rubs off* on 

 being touched. Leaves opposite, decussate, spreading, those 

 of the stem obovate, acuminate, about five inches long and 

 two and a half inches broad. At the extremity of the shoots 



* Literally ** beautifully twisted," apparently in reference to the corolla of 

 C. gigantea. 



