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61. ASCLEPIADACEJE. 
liood-like leaflets of stam.-crown truncate, tlieir 2 inner teeth 
at top minute short straight erect or subincurved ; follicles re- 
supinate softly echinate bladdery beaked. — “R. Br. Wern. Soc. 
i. 88 ; ” BM. t. 1628 ; Spr. i. 849 ; WB. iii. 17 ; 1)C. viii. 557 ; 
Seuh. FI. Az. 35 ; Griseb. W. I. FI. 419 ; Willk. et Lange ii. 
669. Asclepias fruticosa Linn. Sp. 315; Lam. Diet. i. 283; 
Desf. i. 211 ; Pers. i. 276. — Shr. per. Mad. reg. 1, cc ; PS. reg. 
1, rr. Waste rocky sunny places and beds of ravines all about 
Funchal and at various other places along the S. coast chiefly ; 
PS. sparingly in the bed of the Rib. da Serra de Fora; “also 
Campo Debaixo,” S r Moniz. May-Nov. chiefly, but at most 
seasons. — A Willow-like shr. 3-5 ft. hig:h with flexible straight 
erect slender leafy round gr. or purpurascent branches, finely 
downy upwards, smooth below. L. opposite crowded 2-4 in. 
long, 2-6 lines broad, finely attenuate at both ends, without or 
with only an indistinct short petiole, dark gr. smooth and 
shining above, paler and with a still paler prominent distinct 
fat first downy then glabrescent) midrib beneath, erect stiffish. 
In pi. growing in moist or shady spots, or cult, in English 
greenhouses, the 1. are broader lanceolate membranous loosely 
spreading or defiexed and attenuate into distinct petioles. FI. 
elegant 6-8 or 9 lines in diam. w. in numerous stalked lateral 
more or less drooping umbels shorter than the 1. nearly or quite 
scentless. Ped. extraaxillary erecto-patent slender about an 
inch long ; pedic. or 1 in. long, very slender often purplish 
or red. Sep. linear-lanceolate, finely acuminate and downy, 2 
or 3 lines long. Lobes of cor. ovate concave, about 4 lines 
long, 2| broad, spreading or subreflexed, more or less ciliato- 
downv or woolly outside at the edges, distinct like pet., con- 
nected at the base only by a narrow ring ; hooded lfts. of stam.- 
crown 5, w. or pale greenish, petaloidal, prominent like the 
cogs of a horizontal wheel, compresso-saccate or cucullate 
sharply keeled large conspicuous, with a pair of w. approximate 
hooked teeth at top bending down outwards into the mouth of 
the 1ft. like a parrot’s upper mandible, and behind these another 
pair of minute erect or incurved teeth ; the whole 1ft. very pale 
greenish, w. at top inwards, reddish purple at the base. Stigma 
depressed or flattened at top obtusely 5-angular. Follicles in- 
flated membranous or bladdery, elliptic-ovoidal, beaked, 2-4 in. 
long, 1-3 broad, mostly single (one of the 2 ov. in each 11. being 
usually abortive, and one only, rarely 2 fl. in each umbel fruit- 
bearing), resupinately ascending or erect from a twist in their 
strongly dellexed thickened pedic., mostly red or purplish on 
their upper or exposed side. Seeds very numerous, black or 
dark collee-brown. Pappus w. silky very copious. Whole pi. 
milky. 
From the omission of this pi. in Solander’s, Fydell’s and Von 
