N, O. ASCEEriADE.®. 
809 
Habitat -. — Baluchistan, Trans-Indus, Salt Range, Outer Hima- 
laya to the Chenab ; Merwara. 
An erect branching shrub with milky juice, leafless or nearly 
so. Stems many, as thick as a goose-quill or less, smooth or 
with pubescent tips. Leaves (when present) 1 in long, thick, 
ovate or oblong, acute, nerves inconspicuous. Cymes many- 
flowered, often opposite, £-1 in. long and broad, on short thick 
peduncles or branching from the base ; bracts ovate-oblong, 
caducous from above the base. Flowers fragrant. Calyx 
glabrous, g in. long ; lobes ovate-oblong, obtuse. Coralla gre- 
enish and glabrous outside, purple within ; lobes reflexed, 1 in. 
long, oblong, obtuse, densely bearded inside towards the apex. 
Corona-lobes £ in. long, transversely oblong at the base, each 
terminating in a long filiform process with a recurved apex. 
Stamens with glabrous filaments. Follicles on short thick 
peduncles; widely divaricate, 3-7 in. long, woody, terete taper- 
ing to a point. Seeds 1 in. long, coma I in. long. (Duthie). 
Use : — The milky juice is used in Sind as an external 
application to tumors and swellings (Murray). 
770 . Secamone emetica, Br. h.f.b.i., iv. 13 . 
Vern. : — Shada-buri (B.) . 
Habitat ; — Mountains of the South Deccan Peninsula. 
A diffuse, semi-shrubby, perennial herb. Stems numerous, 
slightly twining, slender, wiry, glabrous, cylindric, much thick- 
ened at nodes. Leaves 2-22in., linear-lanceolate or linear, acute 
at base, tapering and very acute at apex, glabrous. Petioles 
short, slender, 1^-3 by j-|in., rather glaucous beneath, nerves 
faint (J. D. Hooker). Flowers yellow, on slender, pubescent 
pedicels. Cymes stalked, lax, dichotomous, bracts small, woolly 
pubescent. Calyx pubescent, segments ciliolate. Corolla under 
jrin. diam., lobes oblong-oval, obtuse. Follicles 2-3in., much 
acuminate, smooth. 
Use : — Regarded by natives as possessing powerfully emetic 
properties (Ph. Ind.). 
771 . Oxystelnia esculentum , Br. h.f.b.i., iv. 17 . 
Syn. : — Asclepias rosea, Roxb. 251. 
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