80 PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. AsckpictS. 



dian plants of this order hitherto consigned to ^ergula- 

 ria, Periploca,Cynanchium, drnd Apocynum, fall into this 

 genus ; nor can 1 contrive any possibility of placing 

 them elsewhere, so exactly alike are all the essential 

 parts of their generic character, which appears to me as 

 completely Gynandrous, as any of the Orchidees. 



Section 1st. Corol rotate. 



1. A. gigantea. Wdld. 1264. 



Shrubby, hoary. Leaves stem clasping, oblong, obo- 

 vate, downy underneath. Umbels simple. 



Madorus Rumph. amb. 1 . t. 14. f. 1. 



t7rka is the Sanscrit name of the lilac variety, and 

 Ulurka, the name of the white. 



Ericu. Rheed. mal, 2. t. 31 the lilac, and Bel-ericu, 

 31 the white. 



Neila-jeberoo, the Telinga name of the lilac flowered 

 variety, and Zella-jeleereo of the white flowered. Beng. 

 Akwnda, and Swetakwnd. 



This is one of the most common, large, ramous shrubs 

 over India. It is in flttwer, and has ripe seed all the year 

 round. It grows every where, but chiefly about old walls, 

 hedges, or ruinous places. 



Stem often as thick as a man's leg, or thigh, sub-erect 

 ramous. Bark ash-coloured. Young shoots covered with 

 soft woolly down. Leaves opposite, decussate, sub-ses- 

 sile, embracing the stem, broad, wedge-form, bearded on 

 the upper side where they end in the petiole ; the upper 

 surface pretty smooth ; the under one, covered with a 

 white woolly pubescence, from four to six inches long, 

 and from two to three broad. Umbels generally simple, 

 though sometimes compound, peduncled. Peduncles round, 

 covered with the same woolly substance, as the leaves 

 and young shoots, and issuing alternately from between 

 the opposite leaves, nearly erect, half the length of the 



