52 
1033. (1.) Crinitaria Linosyris, Less.— 
Mem Ayres, Tweedie ; (perhaps s cul- 
ted.) 
1081. (l. orig Porophyllum, Willd.— 
Rio Gran Ri aba St. Cathe- 
rine’s, and woods of Tucuman, Tweedie 
(n. 11 
1035. (2.) Kleinia linifolia (Gill. et Don,); 
erecta r 
suffruticosa amosissima uca, 
uarto, Provinces of Cordova, and Ja- 
rillal, Mendoza, Dr. Gillies ; Rio Grande, 
Tweedie. —Perhaps this may prove to be 
K. cured es Ek but the description dif- 
fers in articulars 
1036. (3j "Klein Ai folia "n 1); suf- 
fruticosa erecta ra. ma glauca, ramis 
virgatis, foliis pope angustissimis 
subfoliformibus, pedunculis subgeminis, 
involucri foliolis oblongis submucronatis 
dimidium attingentibus, ache- 
—Island of Los Morin- 
G 
S prengel's plant ma 
1037. (4.) K 
leinia enserta ‘anes et an J; 
suffruticosa — ssima 
s and tdi a of Porta- 
legre, Tweedie.—Readily ry koma 
fr 
linearibus vel subfiliform 
solitariis Pena uit foliolis 
cronulatis pappum equantibus, srm 
hirsutulis.—«. foliis elongatis; Monte 
Video, Tweedie.—B. foliis abbreviatis ; 
Parana and B 
ear. cde mucron tis, 
i foli 
on the coast of Modelo Tweedie. 
(To be continued.) 
ILLLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 
ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BO- 
TANY; PRINCIPALLY OF THE - 
SOUTHERN PARTS OF THE ~ 
By R. Wicnr, M. D. F.L.S. & G. A. W. ARNOTT, — 
&c. 
(Continued from p. 228, Vol. I.) 
Oxystelma esculentum; folis lineari-lan- 
ceolatis venosis, corolla margine ciliata, - 
(Tab. 
folliculis oblongis acuminatis. 
XXIV. 
Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veget. - 
6. p.89. Spreng. Syst. Veget. p. 
Wall. Asclep. n. 94. 
P 
Periploca esculenta. Linn. fil. Suppl. 
p. 168. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 1. p. 1250. - 
Rozb. Cor. v. 1. p. 13. t. 14. 
Asclepias rosea. Roxb. Fl. Ind. v. 2. p. 40. 
Pluk. t 
Root Gea 
smooth, green, voluble. 
smooth, 
deep 
broad. Racemes axillary, long-peduncled, 
bearing from three to eight large, sub- 
campanulate, five-cleft flowers ; their seg- 
ments triangular, acute, externally of a - 
pale rosy hue, internally purplish, marked - 
2: with darker lines. Column of fructification 
prominent; crown of five inflated leaves, 
broad, and somewhat compressed at the 
base, tapering to a sharp incurved point. 
Pol- 
len-masses compressed, attached by their 
attenuated apex, pendulous. Stigma large, — 
at, covered on the edges by the mem- — 
branous lips of the anthers. Pericarps | 
these consist 
of two coats or layers, loosely attached to 
each other, and it is between these that 
the inflation takes place, as the inner coat | 
is of a firm texture, and closely embraces 
nthers terminated by a membrane. 
two, large, inflated follicles : 
the seeds, which are numerous and comose. 
is plant always grows near water, Of 
even with its roots in water; its stems 
twining round whatever support they can 
Wight, Cat. n. : 
1547. Wight, Contrib. to ze Bot. of 
54. 
S filiform, round, 
Leaves shortly | 
petioled, opposite, linear-lanceolate, acute, - 
rounded and subcordate at the base, entire, | 
green above, paler and | 
veined beneath, deciduous? from two to | 
three inches long, by about half an inch © 
