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ASCLEPIAS curassavica. 
Curassoa Swallow-wort. 
PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
ASCLEPIAS. Supra fol. 78. 
A. curassavica, foliis lanceolatis petiolatis glabris, nitidis, caule simplici, 
umbellis erectis solitariis lateralibus. Linn. sp. pl. 1.314, 
Asclepias curassaviea. Miu. dict. ed. 8.0.1, Swartz obs. 106. Jacq. 
miscell, 1. 29. t. 2. f. 2. Hort, Kew. 1. 806. ed. 2.2.81. Willd. 
sp. pl. 1. 1260. ; he A, eh 
A‘ erecta, foliis angustis acuminatis verticillater ternatis, floribus umbel- 
Jatis terminatricibus. Browne jam. 183. 2. ; 
Apocynum radice fibrosa, petalis coccineis, corniculis croceis, Dill. 
elth. 34. t. 30. f. 33. : , 
A, curassavicum s. americanum, fibrosa radice, floribus aurantiis, Cha- 
meneril foliis latioribus. Herm. paradis. 36. t. 36. 
A. erectum folio oblongo flore umbellato petalis coccineis reflexis. 
~ Sloane jam. 1. 206. t. 129. f. 45. 
A. curassavicum fibrosa radice floribus aurantiis Chamznerii foliis angus- 
tioribus. Pluk, alm. 36. Phyt.t. 188. f. 3. 
Radix perennis, fibrosa. Caulis erectus, bipedalis v. magis, teres, viridis, 
lanugine alba rara obsoletiis pubescens. Volta saturaté virentia, distantits 
decussata, lanceolato-oblonga, in petiolum prolixiis attenuata, subglabra, nervo 
medio emittente alios laterales suhadscendentes. Pedunculi interpetiolares, 
ad paria superiora foliorum alterni, solitaru, umbella pluriflora erecta laxé 
simplici terminali, pedicellis basi bracteolatis. Foliola calycis virentia, lan- 
ceolata, acuta, villosiuscula; refleca, duplo breviora corolld. Cor. crocato- 
coccinea, lacinits deflexis, lanceolatis, apice incurvulis. Corona staminea 
aurantiaco-flavescens, brevis ; foliolis medio tubo’ affixis, cucullatis, obtusissi- 
mis, singulis corniculum subulatum super stigma ascendens § inflenum exse- 
rentibus fundo. Stigma maximum, apice plano depressum. Volliculi fisi/ormes, 
subtriunciales, crassitudine digitt, 
Henne nn nannies <ostoss — w= 
Grows naturally in the West Indies. In Jamaica it is’ 
known by the name of “ Wild Ipecacuanha,” and is said to | 
be employed by the negroes for the same medicinal purposes — 
for which the genuine Ipecacuanha is used. The seed, buoyed 
by asilky plume, is wafted far and near like that of out 
thistles, like that attaches itself to whatever it meets in. its 
course, and separates at last from the plume which has sus- 
pended it, to seek the soil and germinate: proving by this 
the 
“1 troublesome weed. Even in our hothouses, where 
S freely, an inconvenience is perceived in as far as 
other plants are disfigured by the downy seed. 
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