ASCLEPIADACE.E. 643 



Order ASCLEPIADACE^E. 



ASCLEPIAS, L. 



A. Curtissii, Gray. Stem puberulous (l°-3° liigli) ; leaves smooth, 

 oval, acuminate or obtuse (H' long) ; umbel solitary, terminal, short-pedun- 

 cled, loosely few-flowered; flowers yellowish-green; pedieels twice as long; 

 leaves of the crown somewhat hastate-lanceolate, erect, more than twice as 

 long as the gynostegium and the incurved horn; anther-wings very broad; 

 column short. — Eastern part of South Florida [Curtiss). 



ENSLENIA, Nutt. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla bell-shaped, 5-parted : crown inserted on the 

 base of the gynostegium, 5-leaved, each leaf deeply cleft, with the lobes 

 prolonged into a slender flexuous point. Stigma subcorneal. Follicle fusi- 

 form. Seeds eomose, flat. — A perennial twining vine, with opposite cordate- 

 ovate acuminate leaves, and small white fragrant flowers in axillary umbels 

 or corymbs. 



E. albida, Nutt. — River-banks, Georgia, Alabama, and northward. 

 July. 



GOINTOLOBUS, Michx. 



G. hirsutus, Michx. Pubescent and hirsute; leaves ovate, cordate, 

 acuminate; peduncle of the 6-8-flowered umbel equalling or shorter than 

 the petiole; corolla dark purple, ovate in the bud, the oval or oblong lobes 

 smooth within; margins of the crown 10-erenate; "follicle muricate." — 

 Woods, Florida, and northward. 



G. obliquus, R. Br. Leaves broadly cordate* short-acuminate, or rmiero- 



nate-pointed ; umbel simple or compound, long-peduncled; corolla crimson 

 purple, long-conical in the bud, the linear lobes smoothish within; margins 

 of the crown 10-crenate ; follicle terete, muricate. — Banks of the Coosa 

 River, North Georgia, and northward. July. 



G. Carolinensis, R. Br. Leaves cordate, acuminate; peduncle rather 

 longer than the petiole; corolla brownish purple, oblong in the bud, the 

 oblong lobes smooth within; crown obtusely 5-lobed, and with a longer 

 bifid process in the sinuses. — South Carolina, and westward. 



G. Baldwmianus, Sweet. Stem and cordate leaves pubescent and 

 hairy; peduncles mostly longer than the petioles; umbel simple or com- 

 pound; flowers oblong-oval in the bud, white, the lobes somewhat spatulate; 

 crown 5-crenate, with a pair of subulate processes in the sinuses. — Calca- 

 reous soil, Florida and Alabama. 



