540 A!«CLEPIACE.*:. 



mountains. Fl. middle-sized, white, with a pale greenish crown, tinged 

 with purplish, R. S. ; fr. R. and C. S., but rarely. 

 ? Pentatropis, R. Br. {in Salt. irav. app.from W. and A. contrib. ind. bot. 

 p. 52;— G. Dons Mill. diet. 4, p. 145.) 

 1. microphylla, W. and A. {I. c. ; — G. Don. I. c. ; — J. Grah. Cat. B. pi. 

 p. 120. — Wight, icon. 2, t. 352. — A. microphylla, Roxb. fl. ind. 2, p. 

 35 ; — Schultes. syst. 6, p. 85; — Rlieed. 9, t. 17.) "b ^^ Coromandel. 

 Bengal, (Serampore.) Banks of the Jumna. Fl. small, greenish-red, 

 R. S. ; fr. C. S. 

 Calotropis, R. Br. {Mem. Wern. soc. 1, p. 39 ; — W. and A. o. c. p. 53 ; — 

 G. Dons Mill. diet. 4, p. 146.) 

 1. gigantea, R. Br. (/. c. ; — W. and A. I. c. ; — G. Don. I. e. ; — J. Grah. 

 Cat. B. pi. p. 120 ; — B. Reg. 4, /. 58. — Asclepias gigantea, Willd.; — 

 L. ?—Ait.;—Jacq. ohs. 3, p. 17, t. 69 ^—Roxb.fl. ind. 2, p. 30;— 

 Rheed. 2, ^.31 ; — Rumph. auct. t. 14, f. 1.) ^ Moluccas. Sunda 

 Islands. Ceylon. Both Peninsulas of India. Bengal, (Serampore.) Hin- 

 doosthan. Assam, &c. Fl. 10-12 lines long, and fr. throughout the year. 

 A large quantity of an acrid, milky juice flows from this plant when 

 wounded. The natives apply it to various medicinal purposes, while 

 they employ the plant itself and its preparations to cure all sorts of 

 nervous disorders. In 1811, it was subjected to a regular set of me- 

 dical experiments by Dr. G. Playfair, who, with many of his brethren, 

 bears ample testimony of its efficacy in leprosy, lues, tenia, herpes, 

 dropsy, rheumatism, hectic and intermittent fever. The powdered bark 

 is given in doses of 5-6 grains twice a day. It will now and then 

 occasion nausea and vomiting, but such symptoms are easily removed 

 by a dose of castor oil. (Ore the Madar, and its medieal uses, Phys. 

 and med. trans. Calc. I, p. 77-102. — Account of the use of Akund or 

 Mudar in the leprosy. Phys. and med. trans. Calc. 2, 409-410.) 

 a. lilacina, (^t<P*ft Akundo.) Fl. beneath whitish with a tinge of 

 lilac, above whitish light purple, with the crown purplish lilac, 

 inodorous, or nearly so. 

 /3. alba, (C^TS ~^t<P'Ii Shwet- Akundo.) Fl. white, cream-coloured, in- 

 odorous, or nearly so. 

 2.procera, R. Br. {in Hort. Kew. ed. 2, vol. 2, p. 78 ; — G. Don. I. c. ; — 

 B. Reg. 21, t. 1792. — Asclepias procera, Ait. Hort. Kew.ed. 1, vol.1, 

 p, 305 ;— Willd.— k. gigantea, Andr. B. Repos. t. 271, not Willd. ; 

 Lam. — Beidelsar, Prosp. Alp. (cgypt. cap. 25, c. W.) ^ N. Africa. 

 Persia. Fl. 10-12 lines, inodorous, externally pale silverish, internally 

 intensely purple-red, towards the top paler, towards the centre spotted, 

 March and April ; fr. 0. 

 This plant is by some esteemed more efficacious in the cure of leprosy 

 than the preceding species. 



3. herhacea, Carey, MSS. {Wight, contrib. ind. hot. p. 54 ; — G. Don. o. c. 

 p. 147 ; — Wight, icon. 2, t. 492.— Asclepias herhacea, Roxb. fl. ind. 2, 



