Asclepias, pentandria digynia. 85 



Dr. A.nderson finding the practice of the black doctors 

 much more successful than his own,ackno\vled;;ed, with 

 his usual candour, that he was not ashamed to take in- 

 struction from them, which he pursued with good suc- 

 cess ; and collecting a quantity of the plant which 

 they pointed out to him, he sent a lar^'e package of the 

 roots to Madras. It is certainly an article of the Hin- 

 doo materia medica highly deserving attention. 



6. A. tunicata, R. 



Leaves long-cordate, smooth. Stipules short- petioled, 

 broad-cordate. Umbels simple. Nectary double. 



Periploca tunicata. Willd. 1. 1252. Retz, 3. ohs. 2. N. 35. 



Hind. Kallia-luta. 



Beng. Chagwl-patl. 



A pretty large, twining shrub, a native of the hedges, 

 &c. Flowering time, the rainy season. Its milky juice 

 is particularly gummy. 



Leaves opposite, petioled, cordate, with large, round- 

 ed, posterior lobes ; pointed, entire, both sides smooth ; 

 from 2 to 4 inches long. Petioles half the length of tlie 

 leaves, stem-clasping. Stipules two in the same axil, none 

 in the other opposite one ; they are short-petioled, broad- 

 cordate, pointed, smooth, about an inch long each way. 

 Umbels solitary, small, simple, few-flowered, occupying 

 the axil opposite to the stipules. Flowers small, rusty 

 colour. Corol flat. Nectary double. Exterior tubular, 

 gibbous, considerably large, and completely embracing 

 the inner, and the fructification ; towards the apex plait- . 

 ed, and contracted ; mouth ten-toothed, the alternate 

 ones very large, and emargiuate. Interior as in the ge- 

 nus. Follicles lanceolar, flat on the inside, with sharp 

 margins, black, deeply and irregularly furrowed. 



7. A. microphylla, R. 



Leaves cordate, with a minute point, smooth and 



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