Asclepias. pentandria digvnia. 37 



bels simple, many flowered. Nectaries protruding five 

 horns at the base. 



Nansjera-patsja. Rheed. mal. 9. 1. 13. 

 ■ A native of the mountainous parts of the Circars ; it 

 flowers during- the hot and rainy seasons. 



Ste7ns and larger branches woody, twining, running 

 over trees, kc. to a great extent. Branchlets twiggy, 

 and pendulous. Leaves opposite, oblong,, smooth, shin- 

 ing, of a very firm, hard, fleshy texture, veinless. Um- 

 bels peduncled, lateral, solitary, pendulous with the 

 branchlets many flowered. Flowers milk-white, fragrant, 

 pendulous also. Pedicels as long as the peduncles. Ca- 

 rol flat, inside covered with a kind of silky down. Nec- 

 tary stellate; O may represent one of its five parts much 

 magnified. Anthers remarkably large, reflected over, and 

 resting upon the common stigma. If taken out and examin- 

 ed before the flower opens, they are then found much 

 swelled ; along the sharp edge there is a double line, 

 which I conclude forms an opening for the prolific fluid to 

 escape at, but in old flowers they are mere collapsed 

 membranes. On dividing the plump ones I could readily 

 press out a yellow fluid. 



Note. This is the most favorable species I have met 

 with for examining the structure, and contents oftheaw- 

 thers of this Gynadrous genus. 



10. A. annularia, R. 



Leaves petioled, cordate, pointed, smooth ; nerves and 

 veins red ; genitalia sitting on a large annular receptacle. 



Ada-kodien. Rheed. mal. 9. t. 7. 



Teling. Palla gurgi. 



It is a native of moist vallies. Flowering time, the wet 

 season. 



iS^ewi twining, perennial. Young shoots round, and very 

 smooth. Leaves opposite, petioled, cordate, deeply lobed 

 at the base, pointed, entire, smooth on both sides, nerve 



