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Tylophora, R. Br. (Mem. Wern. soc. 1, p. 28; pr. p. 460; — G. Don's 

 Mill. diet. 4, p. 128.) 



l.tenuissima, W. and A. (Contrib. ind. bot. p. 49 ; — G. Don. o. c. p. 

 129. — Asclepias tenuissima, Roxb. fl. ind. 2, p. 41.) "6 /^ Peninsula 

 of India. Bengal. Fl. small, dull purple. In H. C. G. fl. R. S. ; fr. C. 

 6. {Roxb.) 



2. vomit or ia, (T. asthmatica, W. and A. contrib. ind. hot. p. b\. — Cj'- 

 nanchum vomitorium. Lam. — C. viridiflorum, Sims. ; B. M. 44, t. 

 1929; — Spreng. syst. \, p. 852. — Asclepias vomitoria, Kon. in Hb. 

 Banks ; Roxb. mus. ind. or. t. 608. — A. asthmatica, Roxb. fl. ind. 2, 

 p. 33 ; — Willd. ; — Rom. and. Sch. ; — Spreng. — Cynanchum Ipeca- 

 cuanha, Willd.) ^^ ^91 Unto-mool. "H k^ Peninsula of India. Ben- 

 gal, (Serampore.) Segaen, &c. Fl. 5^ lines in diameter, externally 

 pale greenish with a faint tinge of purple, internally light-purple, May 

 and June ; fr. Aug. Sept. and Oct. The roots are used on the Coast 

 of Coromandel, as a substitute for ipecacuanha. Roxb. often pres- 

 cribed this remedy himself, and found it answer as well as the latter. 

 Given in a pretty large dose, it answers as an emetic, in smaller, of- 

 ten repeated doses as a cathartic, and in both ways effectually ; the 

 natives also employ it as an emetic, by rubbing upon a stone 3-4 

 inches of the fresh root, and mixing it with a little water for a 

 dose. It generally purges at the same time. Dr. P. Russel was in- 

 formed by Dr. J. Anderson, the Physician General at Madras, that 

 he had many years before known it used both by the European and 

 Native troops, with great success in the dysentery which happened 

 at that time to be epidemic in the camp. (Roxb.) 

 Asclepias, L. (R. Br. in Mem. Wern. soc. p. 36 ; — G. Don's Mill. diet. 

 4, p. 139.) 



l.curassavica, L. (G. Don. I. c. ; — B. Cab. t. 349; — B. Reg. I, t. 81; 

 —Roxb. H. B. p. 20;— J. Grah. Cat. B. pi. p. 120, not Lour.— A. 

 bicolor, Monch.) "b Cura9ao. Essequebo. Cumana. Trinidad ; now found 

 in most parts of Tropical America and India. Fl. nearly 6 lines, saffron 

 coloured with a light orange-coloured crown, and fr. nearly through- 

 out the year. The juice of this plant, made into a syrup, is said 

 to be a powerful anthelmintic, and is given as such, in the West 

 Indies, to children in doses from a tea to table-spoonful. The juice 

 and pounded plant is said to be an excellent styptic. The root, 

 dried and reduced to a powder, is frequently used by the Negroes 

 as an emetic, and hence its name of Wild, or Bastard Ipecacuanha. 

 (}Jill. diet.) 

 GoMPHOCARPUs, R. Br. (Mem. Wern. soc. 1, p. 37 ; — G. Don's Mill. diet. 

 4, p. 143.) 



l.fruticosus, R. Br. (/. c. ;—G. Don. I. c. ,—B. M. 39, /. 1628.— Ascle- 

 pias fruticosa, L. ; — Roxb. H. B.p. 20. — A. glabra. Mill. diet. — Apo- 

 cynum salicifolium, Medic.) S C. G. H., beyond the first range of 



