54 PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. AscUpias. 



lower part of the stigma. Stamina ; 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 ofAsclepias described, and figured by me, 

 which yields Indigo; though, for my own part, I have not 

 succeeded in procuring 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 five 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 an extensive, perennial, twining species, a native 

 of the forests of Silhet, where it is called Kulum. Flower- 

 ing time, the rainy season. 



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-» Racemes very 

 long-peduncled, sometimes proliferous ; by age the rachis 

 lengthens into the form of a short raceme. Flowers very 

 large, pure white ; long-peduncled. Calyx five-parted. 



