Asclepias. pentandria digynia. 41 



Teling. Doodee-palla. 



It is a twininjj perennial ; growing in hedges, and a- 

 mongst bushes on the banks of water courses, pools, &c. 

 Leaves deciduous during the dry season. In flower and 

 foliage during the rainy season. 



Root of filiform fibres. Stem and branches numerous, 

 twining, round> smooth, running over bushes of conside- 

 rable size. Leaves opposite, spreading, short-petioled, li- 

 near, tapering to a fine point, round at the base, entire, 

 smooth, from four to six inches long, and about three 

 eighths of an inch broad. Racemes lateral, long, few- 

 flowered. Flowers large, beautiful, white, with a small 

 tinge of rose-colour, and striated with purple veins, in- 

 odorous. Nectary, and Stamens as in the genus. Follicles 

 oblong, inflated. 



On this Coast 1 do not find the natives ever eat it, or 

 apply it to any purpose whatever ; cattle however eat it. 

 Its elegant flowers render it well deserving of a place in 

 the flower Garden. Every part abounds with milk, hence 

 its names in various Asiatic languages. 



14. A. tenuissima. R. 



Filiform, smooth. Leaves linear-lanceolate. Umbels 

 proliferous. Genitalia a truncated cone. 



A native of Bengal. 



Stem perennial, simple, of several yards in length, 

 very smooth, about as thick as a pack thread. Leaves 

 opposite, short-petioled, linear-lanceolate, base rather 

 broad, and somewhat cordate, entire, plain, smooth on 

 both sides; almost veinless; length from one to two inches, 

 and a little more than a quarter of an inch broad. Petioles 

 nearly round, about as long as the leaves are broad. Um- 

 bels solitary, from between the insertion of each pair of 

 leaves, proliferous. Peduncles diverging, round, smooth, 

 filiform. Flowers small, of a dull purple colour. Calyx 



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