Asclepias. pentandria digynia. 45 



three inches long. Petioles nearly as long as the leaves. 

 Umbels lateral, Ion g-ped uncled, sub-erect, often com- 

 pound, many-flowered. Involucres few and minute. Flow- 

 ers middle sized, of a dirty whitish colour, long-pedicelled, 

 very fetid. Coro? tubular ; tube not quite half the length 

 of the nectary ; apexes of the five divisions long, very 

 acute, and spirally incurved over the common stigma. 

 Anthers spreading obliquely under the margins of the 

 common stigma. Follicles hedge-hogged. 



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18. A. geminata. R. 



Leaves ovate, downy. Umbels simple in pairs from 

 alternate axils. Nectary a simple, five-toothed tube ; 

 common stigma subglobular. 



Beng. Choota-doodee-lwta. 



This is also a large twining woody plant ; a native of 

 hedges. Flowering time the same as that of the last 

 species. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, ovate, pointed ; 

 at the base a little cordate, entire, downy, from two to 

 three inches long. Umbels lateral, simple, globular, 

 paired, short-peduncled, thewhole being little more than 

 the length of the petioles. Flowers numerous, small, 

 yellow, wi>h the globular apex of the white common 

 stigma projecting in the centre ; it looks like a fine pearl 

 set in gold. Calyx five-leaved. Corol ; tubular, downy ; 

 on the inside of the tube are five elevated ridges ; divisi- 

 ons o{ the border si^re^ding, triangular, acute. Nectarial 

 sheath very simple, its apex reaches very little above 

 the base of the common stigma, and is five-toothed. 

 Anthers erect, affixed round the base of the common 

 stigma, which is large, obovate, and two-thirds above 

 the nectary. 



19. A, Montana, R. 



Leaves oblong, pointed, smooth. Umbels lateral, solita- 

 ry, proliferous. Common stigma globular. 



