[Pate 101.] 
THE PRETTY RAPHISTEM. 
(RAPHISTEMMA PULCHELLUM.) 
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A fine stove climber, from the Tropics or Asta, belonging to the Order of ASCLEPIADS. 
Specific Character. 
THE PRETTY RAPHISTEM. A twiner. Leaves heart- | RAPHISTEMMA PULCHELLUM; volubile,foliis cordatis 
Shaped, taper-pointed, membranous, smooth on each inati b is utri labri petiolum 
side, having glands on the upper side above the petiole. 
Segments of the corolla ovate, blunt, erect. Lobes of the 
coronet twice as long as the column. Stigma prominent, 
umbilicate. 
glanduliferis, corolla laciniis ovatis obtusis erectis, coronæ 
4 2 falta gy 4 gi A plo I ast. , stigmate 
prominulo umbilicato.— Decaisne. 
Raphistemma pulchellum: Wallich, Pl. As. rariores, vol. ii, p. 50, t. 163 ; Decaisne, in D.C. Prodr., viii. 516 ; alias 
Asclepias pulchella : Roxb. Fl. Ind., ii. 54. 
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()UR knowledge of this fine new stove plant is derived from a specimen furnished last summer by 
Messrs. Weeks and Co., of the King’s Road. Its large straw-coloured flowers, broad foliage, 
and twining habit make it a useful companion for the favourite Stephanotis ; its leaves, however, are 
not so thick. i 
According to Dr. Roxburgh, “ it is an extensive perennial twining species, native of the forests of 
. Silhet, where it is called Kulum, flowering in the rainy season." To this Dr. Wallich adds Gualpara, 
Tavoy and Pegu; and that it is the largest flowered Asclepiad with which he is acquainted. 
Dr. Roxburgh describes it thus : “ Stems and branches twining; young shoots perfectly smooth 
and deep green. Leaves opposite, long-petioled, cordate, entire, smooth, acuminate, from four to eight 
inches long, and from three to six broad. Racemes very long-peduncled, sometimes proliferous ; by 
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