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CALOTROPIS gigantea. 
Curled-flowered Calotropis. 
PENTANDRIA  DIGYNI4Z. 
Nat. ord, Asctirriapem. Cal. 5-divisus, persistens. Cor. mono- 
-petala, hypogyna. Anth. biloculares. Pollen ad dehiscentiam antherarum 
coalescens in massas. Styli 2, arcté approximati: stigma ambobus com- 
mune, dilatatum, pentagonum, angulis corpusculiferis. Folliculi 2; altero 
nunc abortiente: placenta suture intis applicata, demim libera. Semina — 
numerosa, imbricata, pendula: albumen tenue. , aa 
Div. Asctepiade vere. Masse Pollinis 10, leves, per paria, (diversis 
antheris_pertinentia), affixe stigmatis corpusculis, sulco longitudinali, 
bipartibilibus. _Filamenta connata, extis sepiis appendiculata. 
CALOTROPIS. Cor. subcampanulata, tubo angulato, angulis 
intis saccatis, limbo 5-partito. Corona staminea 5-phylla, foliolis 
carineformibus, tubo filamentorum longitudinalitér aduatis, basi recurva. 
Anth. membrana terminate. Masse pollinis compress, apice attenuato 
affixe, pendula. Stigma muticum.  Follic. ventricosi, leves. Sem. 
comosa. Frutices erecti, glabri. Folia opposita, lata. Umbelle in- 
terpetiolares. I'lores speciosi. Brown asclep. 19, 21 & 39, 
C. gigantea; corolle laciniis reflexis involutis. Brown in Hort. Kew. 
ed. 2. 2. 78. ; 
Asclepias gigantea. Lin. sp. pl. 1. $12; (exclusis Plukenetti et Alpini 
synonymis).. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 18. Hort. Kew. 1. 305. Willd, 
sp. pl. 1. 1264. salty 
Ericu. heed. mal. 2. 53. t. 31. 
Ericu, americana. Seb. thes. 1. 41. t. 26. f. 1. 
Madorius. Rumph. amb. auct. 24. é 
Frutex modd. orgyalis, tomento deciduo candicans. Folia decussato-di- © 
stantia, patentia, crasstuscula, fragilia, obovata acumine brevi, infra cordato~ 
auriculata, quadriuncialia 5 majora, areola brevitér barbata supra petiolum 
brevem crassum. Panicula sub cymoso-fastigians, laxa, ab inter petiolos ex 
surgens. Cal. parvus, stellatus, appressus, Cor. subuncialis, albo-purpu= 
rascens, pro + diisa: disco crateroidt-depresso 5-angulari, limbo. stellato- 
reflexo, laciniis ovato-lanceolatis, obtusulis, posticé involutis, superne obliquatis. 
Organorum strues inclusa, conica, truncata, molendinata, laminis 5 parim 
profundis subcultrato-compressis cequidistantibus basi inflato-acuminatis & 
externé versis intortis juxta apicem bicorniculatis cum suturd villosa’ in dorso 
tubum stamineum equantibus atque ansularum totidem ad instar decurren- 
tibus. 
The opinions of botanists concerning the nature of the sta- 
mens in the natural family to which our plant belongs, have 
been long divided. Examined in the expanded flower, 
_these organs were uniformly seen after the pollen had been 
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