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PERIPLOCA greca. 
Common Perwploca. 
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PENTANDRIA DIGYNI4A. 
Nat. ord. ASCLEPIADER. Brown in Wern. Trans. Vol. I. 
PERIPLOCA L. Anther dorso barbate. Massz pollinis apice di- 
latato corpusculi stigmatis applicite, solitariz, e quatuor confluentibus.. 
Stigma submuticum. Folliculi cylindracei, divaricatissimi, leves. Semina 
comosa. Brown l.c. 1..57. 
P. greca, floribus interne hirsutis terminalibus. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 1248. 
Jacq. misc. 1.p.11. t.1. Ait. Kew. ed. 2. Smith prodr. fl. Grec. 1. 
Apocynum folio oblongo. Bauh. pin. 303. 
Apocynum 2 angustifolium. Clus. hist. 1. 125. 
One of the oldest of the climbing plants of our gardens, 
but never before figured in any of the popular botanical 
works of this country. } 
It is said to be a native of the South of France, and of 
Greece, where it overruns the hedges with its long rambling 
shoots, thinly covered with dark green leaves. The purple 
hairy blossoms are both singular and beautiful; and are 
produced in profusion whenever the plants have been-suffi- — 
ciently protected from the winter. - 
Our drawing was made in the garden of the Comte de 
Vandes. 
The last enumeration of the species of this genus states 
their number at thirteen; but many of them have been 
taken up from dried specimens, probably insufficiently ex- 
amined, and we think will, on a proper investigation, be 
found referable to other genera. 
In modern Greek the plant is called Twavgiiu; in an- 
cient authors no mention of it appears to have been made. 
Its present name has been formed from two Greek words, 
_ expressive of its twining habit. 
J. L. 
