NAT. ORDER. 

 ApocynecB. 



APOCYNUM ANDROS^MIFOLIUM. DOG'S-BANR 



Class V. Pentandria. Order I. Monogynia. 



Gen. Char. Co/?/.r five parted. Coro/fa campanulate. Titte inclos- 

 ing five acute teeth. Tlirout naked. Stamens inclosed. 

 Anthers sagittate, cohering by the middle to tlie stigma. Ovaria 

 two. Styles almost wanting. Stigma dilated, conical at top. 



Spe. Cliar. Leaves ovate, glabrous. Cymes terminal and lateral. 

 Tube of the corolla twice as long as the corolla. 



The root is perennial, large, bitter and milky like the whole plant ; 

 the stem is very smooth as w^ell as the leaves, lactecent and with a 

 tough fibrous bark; from three to five feet high, with few branches 

 and leaves, cylindrical, often rose-colored, and forked several times 

 upwards ; the leaves are opposite, petiolate, pale beneath, ovate, 

 acute, entire, and two or three inches long, with one long nerve ; the 

 jloioers stand on cymose racemes, lateral and terminal ; always longer 

 than the leaves, lax, nodding and few flowered ; the bracts are 

 minute, acute, on the peduncles ; the calyx is short, five-cleft and 

 acute; the corolla is white, tinged with red, similar to a little bell, 

 and divided into five spreading acute segments at the top ; stamens 

 five with short filaments; anthers connivent arrow-shaped, cohering 

 with the stegyne or singular body covering and concealing the pistils 

 (mistaken for a stigma by many botanists), this is thick and round ; 

 there are five glandular corpuscles, (called nectaries by some) alter- 

 nate with the stigma ; there are two ovate concealed pistils and two 

 sessile stigmas ; fruit a pair of follicles, slender, linear, acute, droop- 

 ing, cylindrical ; seed numerous, oblong, embricate, seated on a 

 central receptacle or spermophore, and crowned by a long down. 



Vol. iv.— 72. 



