NAT. ORDER. 
ApocynecB. 
APOCYNUM ANDROS^MIFOLIUM. DOG'S-BANE. 
Class V. Pentandria. Order I. Monogynia. 
Gen. Char. Calyx five parted. Corolla campanulate. Tube inclos- 
ing five acute teeth. Tliroat naked. Stamens inclosed. 
Anthers sagittate, cohering by the middle to the stigma. Ovaria 
two. Styles almost wanting. Stigma dilated, conical at top. 
Spe. Oiar. Leaves ovate, glabrous. Cymes terminal and lateral. 
Tube of the corolla twice as long as the corolla. 
The root is perennial, large, bitter and milky like the whole plant ; 
the stem is very smooth as well as the leaves, lactecent and with a 
tough fibrous bark ; from three to five feet high, with few branches 
and leaves, cylindrical, often rose-colored, and forked several times 
upwards; the leaves are opposite, petiolate, pale beneath, ovate, 
acute, entire, and two or three inches long, with one long nerve ; the 
flowers stand on cymose racemes, lateral and terminal ; always longer 
than the leaves, lax, nodding and few flowered; the bi-acts are 
minute, acute, on the peduncles ; the calyx is short, five-cleft and 
acute; the corolla is white, tinged with red, similar to a little bell, 
and divided into five spreading acute segments at the top ; stamens 
five with short filaments ; anthers connivent arrow-shaped, cohering 
with the stegyne or singular body covering and concealing the pistils 
(mistaken for a stigma by many botanists), this is thick and round ; 
there are five glandular corpuscles^ (called nectaries by some) alter- 
nate with the stigma ; there are two ovate concealed instils and two 
sessile stigmas ; fruit a pair of follicles, slender, linear, acute, droop- 
ing, cylindrical ; seed numerous, oblong, embricate, seated on a 
central receptacle or spermophore, and crowned by a long down. 
Vol. iv.— 72. 
