5/4 BOTANICAL OBSERVATIONS 



as described by Linnjeus > five filaments consider- 

 ably longer than the petal; anthers lobed, fur- 

 rowed ; germ very small ; style scarce any ; stig- 

 mas three, revolute, but, to my eyes, hardly fea- 

 thered. 



Nothing can be more beautiful than the appear- 

 ance of this plant in flower during the rains, on the 

 banks of the rivers, where it is commonly interwoven 

 with a lovely twining Asclepias, of which the fol- 

 lowing description is, I hope, very exact : 

 31. Dugdhica': or Milk-plant. 

 S Y x . Cshirdvi Dugdhica'. 

 Vulg* Kyiruiy Dadhi, Diidh lata. 

 Linn. Esculent Periploca. 

 Cal. One- leaved, five-parted ; divisions zwled, acute, 



coloured, expanding. 

 Cor. One-petaled, salver-form, star-like, divisions 



five, egged, pointed, fringed. 

 Nectary double, on a five-cleft base, gibbous between 

 the clefts, protuded, and pointed above, surround- 

 ed with a bright green villous rim : exterior five- 

 parted; divisions egged, converging, attenuated 

 into daggers ; each concave externally, gibbous 

 below the cavity, which is two-parted and wrinkled 

 within. Interior a five-parted corpuscle, lopped 

 above, five-angled, surrounding the fructifica- 

 tion. 

 St am. Filaments scarce any. Anthers five, round- 

 ish, very minute, set round the summit of the lop- 

 ped corpuscle. 

 Pi st. Germs two, egged, pointed, erect, internally 



flat. 



