464 
Easily cultivated ras seed; the fruit in Cape Verde ripens 
about January (Hiern, 
are Calotropis,” in ec Econ. Prod. India, Watt, ii. 1889, 
pp. —-49.—— —'' Calotropis | procera," in arm macographia 
Bi Dymock, Warden and Hooper, ii. pp. 428-437 (Kegan 
Paul, Trench and Trübner, London, 1891).——-Madar (Calotropis 
gigantea), i in Kew Bull. 1900, pp. 8-12, with plate [this reference 
8 given bec 'ause the practical uses of the two species are the 
fune -——'' Calotropis,” in Manual of Indian urere Gamble 
p. 491. ** Calotropis gigantea and C. procera," i 
India, Watt, pp. 205-208.———'' Les Calotropis,” Berteau, in 
L’ Agric. prat. pays chauds, xii. 2, 1912, pp. 63-7 **'The 
Me of Calotropis procera," in Bull Imp. Inst. xi. 1913, 
- 204-206, with SERA 
pd) = 
+ 
y. 
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XYSMALOBIUM, R. Br. 
erus e Heudelotianum, — Decne.; Fl. Trop. Afr. IV. 
Sect. 
cuan name. ae (Senegambia, Moloney). 
Borgu, Nupe, Kontagora. 
The turnip-like root is eaten by the natives in Senegambia 
(Moloney, For. W. Africa, p. 385 5). 
herbaceous plant; found in dry places after burning, 
Kontagora (Dalziel, Herb. Kew w). 
Ascuepias, Linn. 
Asclepias curassavica, Linn.; Fl. Trop. ied IV. Sect. 1, p. 328. 
Ill.—Sloane, Hist. Sociis: x © f. 45 (Apocynum 
erectum) ; Dillenius, Hort. Eltham. t. 30! 7f pp radice, etc.) ; 
acquin, Misc. Austriaca, LESI ; ot. (1815) t. 81; 
Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 349; Desc. Ant. ii. i. 116; Quesnstan’ Agric. 
Bem. in. 1898, t. dE en Pois. Pl. p. 105, f. 184. 
la (Cent. America, Dathan St. Cyr); 
Chilpat (indian: Bailey), Chilpati (Mexico, Manning), Codio 
(French Guiana, Heckel); Algodoneillo, Platanillo (Porto Rico, 
Cook and Collins) -—Wild Negro or Bastard Ipecacuanha, Red 
ao Milky Cotton Bush, Bloodflower, Curassavian Swallow- 
Old Calabar. A mu of Tropical America and widely dis- 
tributed in the tro 
the purpose (Ball . Bot. Dept. Trinidad, ii. 1895, p . 10). Berm 
mended in the treatment of phthisis, Hayti (Dathan St. Cyr, in 
Pharm. Journ. [iv.] xviii. p. 714). Ro ough brooms of the plant 
