Asclepias. pentandria digynia. 39 



12. A. pseudosarsa, R. 



Shnibby, twininj^, filiform. Leaves from ovate to li- 

 near, smooth, shining. Spikes axillary, sessile, imbricate. 

 Follicles linear. 



Ceropegia tenuifolia, Linn. Mant. 346. 



Periploca ^V/c//ca. Willd. 1. 1251. when broad leaved. 



Periploca emefica, the wild one. 1251. Retz.ohs. 2. No. 

 34. when narrow leaved. 



Naru-nindi. Rheed. mal. 10. t. 34. very good. 



C/himta-mool of the H indoos when the leaves are broad, 

 and Sada-boari when narrow. 



Palla-soucandee is the Telinfra name for the narrow 

 leaved parts, and Ghodie soucandee for the broad leaved. 



It is one of the most common, twining shrubs on the 

 Coast, Bengal, &c. grows equally well in every unculti- 

 vated soil, and in all situations. Flowers during the wet 

 season. 



Root long, and slender with few ramifications, cover- 

 ed with rust coloured bark, which possesses a peculiar- 

 ly pleasant sort of fragrance, whether fresh or dried. 

 Stems twining, diffuse, or climbing, woody, slender, gene- 

 rally from the thickness of a goose quill, to that of a crow 

 quill, pretty smooth. Leaves opposite, short petioled, 

 shape very various ; on the young shoots that issue from 

 old roots, and lie on the earth they are linear, acute, and 

 striated down the middle with white ; on the superior, 

 and old branches, they are generally broad-lanceolate, 

 even, sometimes ovate or oval ; all are entire, smooth, 

 shining, and of a firm texture, the length and breadth very 

 various. Stipules four-fold, smixW, on each side of each 

 petiole, caducous. Racemes axillary, sessile, imbricated 

 with flowers, and then with scales like bractes Flowers 

 small ; outside green, inside a deep purple. Calyx divisi- 

 ons acute. Corol flat ; divisions oblong, pointed, inside 

 rugose. Nectary, stamens, and pistil as in Asclepias. 

 Follicles long, slender, spreading. 



