38 PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. Asckpias, 



and veins red ; on the upper side near the base are some 

 small bristly points ; from three to five inches long, and 

 two or three broad. Petioles about two inches long^. 

 Umbels lateral, peduncled, simple, few flowered. Flow- 

 ers large, the colour a beautiful mixture of red, y^reen 

 and white. Calyx five-leaved ; leaflets ovate. Corol 

 flat. Nectary, its base forms a large, fleshy, somewhat 

 five-sided ring. Filaments twisted. Anthers very long, 

 they hang down on the sides of the common stigma, which 

 is here very large, of an oval form, composed of five 

 lobes, with a pentagonal crown. 



11. A. suberosa, R. 



Bark of the woody parts suberose. Leaves petioled, 

 cordate, downy. Umbels simple. Corols downy. Fruc- 

 tification globular. Anthers hornletted. 



Cynanchium reticulatum. Willd. 1. 1258. 



A large, twining, perennial species common in hedges, 

 &c. over most parts of the coast of Coromandel. It flow- 

 ers during the latter parts of the rains, and the cold sea- 

 son. 



Stem, and old branchesvioo^y, twining; bark light ash- 

 coloured, suberous, and cracking deep in various direc- 

 tions ; young parts slightly downy. Leaves opposite, pe- 

 tioled, oblong, cordate, entire, acute, downy, particularly 

 when young ; two or three inches long, and one and a 

 half or two inches broad. Petioles round, one half length 

 of the petioles. Umbels lateral, simple, peduncled, 

 about the length of the petioles. Flower numerous, 

 small, star-form, greenish-yellow, scentless. Corol ; tube 

 scarcely any ; segments of the border spreading ; margins 

 revolute, downy. Nectarial sheath surrounding the fruc- 

 tification, as in the genus, the whole small, and globu- 

 lar. Anthers oval, horned, bent up over the common 

 stigma. 



