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and such as are in the usual Btate of other i>lnnt« • ,i.; 



«"?■**■ f the stem.and reduction ofthaS 



m Stapeliaand Ceropegia; is diminished in Dta 

 '•••""""I U) the leaves; and almost disappears in li 

 the stem of which is in the usual state, bul ti, 

 between fleshy and leathery. 



It has already been Btated, under the Order ol I 

 banes, that the resemblances found between that 

 and Asdepiada a emed to be one of analog} rather than 

 « real affinity : for the economy of the flowers and s 

 in the two Orders are widely different The amyedaloid 

 embryo ol Asdepiads, with hardlj a trace of albumen is 

 entirely different from that of Dogbanes, which is ven 

 small, and furnished most abundantly with albumen 



rne anthers ana stigma of Dogbanes form reanic 



nmon,but they grow in... one solid central mass in the 

 epiadfl, whence proceed other physiological and struc- 

 tural peculiarities. 



Other Botanists do not attach the Bame importance I 

 these circumstances, and continue to associate the two 

 Orders, adopting the opinion of Brown, who consid. 

 that Uiey differed solely in the nature of their stamens 

 and stigma, the stamens of Dogbanes being distinct with 



it is i f ' ' "' n '- Il,:,t -"'•'• |, "" : » absent, although in the , 



f,m ^ 

 Afr n 7 al,im,la, r v - and ,l,: " '"' Buch tend, ncy exists aino.,. \- 

 An n„st be considered as the great field ol Asclepiad . 

 ».* -;• astnnmh,,,, ; t the succulent species occupy the dry\. 

 Mt.n, 1;;;i hl, ,,,„,,,,., In tropical [ndia and N. u Holland, «i I in 



; ,. , r ,• tt\ ;-- :ils " , i ' ,,,,,m,L Two &»<** ^ « , — 1 :! 



\ , vi " . ' 7 Aselepias, has manj B p, ci, B , and is confin, d 



t ..-■■ ;„ i I',''' ^ ,:i, "- | "" n - I 8 remarkable for extending f, 

 to •;- south latitude. A Stapelia is found in Sicily 



i ; li«' n-ts m ^ ,,,.,-ally urrid and stimulating, whence - ■ 

 a* gtophora asthmabca and Secamone emetica ; otha 

 *> the purgative Aselepias decumbens, which has tl 

 pnei^ perspiration without increasing in anj perceptibl, 

 it is constantly used in Virginia against pleurisy. Their r, Ik 

 outer, and is always to be suspected, although it probabh | ..■ 

 Wily >n the poisonous qualities of that of Dogbanes, if « 



" s '"' c '"' s asarticlesof f I. Ceropegia edulis, Ox 



■ au ,,>!,■ nnna^. porekahJianum, and stipitaceum, an all rcj 



,' u ',".'• c , , '. n1 ""' " r Kiriaghuna plant, Gymnema 1 

 Which the Cingalese make use for food ; it. leav, 

 rerj uttleis known about the real qualities of such pi 

 wntum, Roxburgh says he did not find thai the 

 maK.-s tu> sam,- statement ; adding, however, that in 

 ror aphthous affections of the mouth and fauces. Th< 

 Tinaiflora sicken and excite expectoration. Aselepias tul 

 a popular remedy in the United States fora i 

 to be those of a mild cathartic, and of a certain diaph 



aerableexpectorant effect A decoction of As >ah* 



ot the West Indies is used b) thi N b 



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