2~Z BOTANICAL OBSERVATIONS 



NOTE. 



The whole plant milky. Stem dotted with minute whitish to* 

 bercles. Leaves mostly sevened in verticils at short distances, very 

 soft, oblong inverse-egged, some pointed, some obtuse, some 

 end nicked ; some entire, some rather scallopped ; with many 

 transverse parallel veins on each side of the axis ; rich dark green 

 above, diluted below. Vetioh furrowed above, smooth and con- 

 vex beneath, elongated into a strong protuberant nerve continu- 

 ally diminishing and evanescent at the apex. Sup ides above erect, 

 acute, set in a coronet round the stem ; the verticils of the leaves 

 answering to the definition of fronds. Flowers rather small, greenish 

 white, with a very particular odour, less pleasant than that of 

 elder-flowers. Peduncles terminal, with two verticils pedicelled 

 umbel-wise, but horizontal. Pedicels six-headed, many-flower- 

 ed ; highest verticils similar to those heads, more crowded. Tree 

 •very large when full grown; light and elegant when young. 

 This plant so greatly resembles the Pala of Va* Rheee>e (which 

 has more of the Nerium than of the Taberntemontana) that I suspect 

 the genus and species to be the same, with some little variety. 

 That author says, that the Brabmens call it Santenii, but his 

 JJagari letters make it Savanu ; and neither of the words is to be 

 found in Sanscrit. With all due respect for Plumier and Bur- 

 wan, I should call this plant Nerium Septaparna : it is the Pule of 

 Rumphius, who enumerates its various uses at great length and 

 with great confidence. • 



29. Arca : 



Syn. Vasncci) Astfhota, Gomirupa, Fic/rana, Man* 

 (]dra> Arcaperna ; and any name of the Sun. 



Vulg. A candy Anc. 



I .inn. Gigantic Asclepias. 



Nectaries with two-glanded compressed folds, in- 

 stead of awle'd hornlets at the summit; spirally 

 eared at the base. Filaments twisted in the folds 

 of the nectaries. Anthers flat, smooth, rather 

 wedge -form. Styles near half an inch long, sub- 



. cylindric. 



