ASCLEPIAS

(Lat.),n. f. A?s(as)-kle*p(klap)’i?-a%s(a8s), Gen., asclepi'ados(-dis). Gr., éoxàmmids. Fr.,asclépiade. Ger., Asclepias, Schwalbenwurzel, Seidenpflanze. It., asclepiade. 1. An unknown plant mentioned by Dioscorides. [A,311.] 2. The milk-weed, butterfly-weed, or orange swallow-wort; a genus of perennial herbs of the Asclepiad aceæ, made by Tournefort and Linnæus. The flower consists of a 5-parted calyx, a corolla of 5 petals bent downward toward the stalk, a corona of 5 cup-shaped proce es, each provided with a curved, horn-shaped eminence lying within the corolla, and an antheridium consisting of 5 anthers with connate filaments, bearing 5 pairs of pollinia suspended by threads, and adherent to the 5-angled stigma. The fruit is a pair of follicles containing numerous seeds, provided with a tuft of silky hairs. The juice is milky-white and somewhat acrid. [B, 19, 34.] 3. In the U.S. Ph., the root of A. tuberosa. -A. acid a (Roxburgh]. See Sarco- STEMMA brevistigma.—A. a cum in at a (Roxburgh), ‘See GYMNEMA a cum in at a.—A. aiba [Cavanilles], A. aibo flore. Fr., asclépiade blanche. See CYNANCHUM vincetoxicum.—A. alexicaea [Jacquin]. A species, now referred to Tylophora, eroring) in Malabar and Ceylon, where it is used as an emetic and alexipharmie. [B 180, 216.]— A. ameena [Linnæus]. See A. in carn at a.—A. annular is [ burgh]. See TIoLOSTEMMA Rheedei—A. aphylla. See SaRco- STEMMA brevistigma, S. forskahlianum, and S. aphyllum.—A. apocynum. See À. Cornuti—A. nflmrexcensg‚mnmns]. See Gom- PHOCARPUS arbores cens.—A. asthmatic a [Linnæus]. See TyLo- PHORA asihmatica.—A. bicolor |Ménch]. Fr., Asclépiade bicolor. See A. cura avica.—A. brevicornu [Scheele]. See AsCLEPIODORA decumbens.—A. connivens [Baldwin]. See ANANTHERIX connivens.—A. contrayerva. A Mexican epetee said to furnish me cho a can, with which jalap is adulterated. [Guibourt (A, 308).|— A. convoivulacea. See Dama extensa and Dxta an go lens is. A. Cornuti |Decaisne]. Fr., osclépiade à la soie, herb a à Vouate. Syn.: A. syriaca [Linnæus]. Milk-weed, Virgin i an swallow-wort, Virgin i an silk, common silk-weed, wild cotton; a species found throughout the United States. It is an herb from 3 to 4 feet high, bearing numerous greenish-purple, fragrant flowers in a globular umbel, and having the fruit follicles covered with soft, warty spines, and full of silky seeds. The young shoots are used as a substitute for asparagus; a sort of sugar is obtained from the flowers; the rhizome, which is employed in medicine as an anodyne and sedative in catarrhal affections and asthma, contains asclepion, O, no; 02, not; O8, whole; Th, thin; Ti?, the; U, like 00 in too; U2, blue; U%, lull; U*, full; U%, urn; US, like ü (German). caoutchouc, resin, starch, sugar, and tannin; and the juice, applied to wounds, forms a firm pellicle. The silk of the seeds is used for stuffing pillows and is sometimes woven into fabrics, [A, 327: B, 19, 33, 34, 180; L, 65.]—A. erispa [Linnæus]. See GOMPHOCARPUS crisp us.—A. eur a a vic a [Linneus]. Fr., asclépiade de Curagoa. The ponchishuis of Mexico; a species indigenous to South THE ASCLEPIAS CORNUTI, [A, 827.) 1, the flower; 2, the pollen ma es; 3, the pod; 4, the seeds. America, Central America, and the West Indies, naturalized in Florida. A tall shrubby plantf bearing scarlet flowers; sometimes erroneously called ipecacuanha. In doses of from 3 to 9 drops, the juice is powerfully emetic and cathartic, and has been used as an antiperiodic and vermifuge; the extract is a violent sternutatory; the stem is credited with the same properties as sarsaparilla and China-root; the leaves are said to be haemostatic, antiblennorrhagic, and curative of cancer; and the root has been recommended in asthma and other nervous affections. Great care is nece ary in using any prenare on of the plant. [B, 19, 34; J. M. Maisch, “Am. Jour. of Pharm.,” Feb., 1886, p. 72.]—A. eynancholdes Willdenow]. See SAR COST EMMA glaucum.—A. dæmlia [Forskäl]. ee DÆMIA extensa,—A. decumbens [Linnæus]. See A. tuberosa. —A. echinata. See DÆmrA extensa and Damia an go lens is.—A. eriocarpa [Bentham]. À species growing in southern California. [B, 215.|—A. eros a [Torrey]. Syn.: A. leucophylle [Engelmann]. A species growing in Utah, Arizona, and California. A variety of it (the A. leucophylla, var.'obtusa (ral growing in Californi 1s said to produce) the disease called “loco” in sheep. [B, 66, 215.] —A. exalt at a [Muhlenberg]. See 4. phytolaccoides.—A. faselcularis [Decaisne]. See A. mexican a.—A. flore nigro quorum dam (J. Bauhin]. See CynancHum nigrum.—A. fruticosa [Linnæus]. See GoMPHOCARPUS fruticosus.—A. fuscata [Willdenow]. See CyYNANCHUM fuscatum.—A. galioides [Humboldt, Bonpland, Kunth]. See A. verticil lat a—A.! gem in at a [Roxburgh]. See GYMNEMA silvestre —A. gigantea. Fr, mercure véget See CaLo TROP IS gigantea and CALO TROP IS procera.—A. In carn at a a Fr., asclépiade incarnate. Ger., fleischfarbige Schwalbenwurzel._ Flesh-colored a., swamp milk-weed; a species growing in the United States and Canada, having a stalk from Fito 4 feet high, bearing Ron flowers disposed in close umbels. Its rhizome, which has been used as an emetic, cathartic, and expectorant, contains a volatile oil in minute quantities, two acrid resinous substances, an alkaloid, starchy and saccharine pee and agum. [A, 308; B, 34, 108.]—A. javaniea zeylanica, ete. [Burmann]. See TyLoPHoRA asthmatic a.—A. lactifera [Linnzeus). Fr., asclépiade lactifere. See GyMNEMA lactiferum,—A. laniflora. Fr., asclépiade laniflore. See KANAHIA Delilii and Kana- HA Forskalii—A. leuco phyla [Engelmann]. See A. eros a.—A. linaria [Cavanilles]. A species grow i to us note Mexico upon the high table-lands. [B, 60, 214.]—A. linear is (Linnæus]. The A, verticil lat a, var. subvert i cill at a. JE 215.J—A. long i petal a [Scheele]. See ASCLEPIODORA virid is,—A. Imacrop IE [Nuttall], A. mexican a [Cavanilles]. A species 3 to 5 feet high, growing throughout Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, and Mexico, bearing verticillate leaves and greenish-white flowers in many-flowered corymbose umbels. [B, 60, 215.|—A. micro phyla [Roxburgh]. See PENT A TROP IS microphyll a—A. montana Roxbarauls See GyMNEMA montanum.—À. nigra [Linnæus], A. nigro folio [C. Bauhin]. See CyNANCHUM nigrum.—A. nivea [Linnæus]. A plant 1 to 2 feet in height; with white flowers, growing in the Gulf States, The juice is vermifuge; the root, “ bastard ipecacuanha,” is emetic. B, 34; L,43.]—A. obovata. See 4. Cornuti—A. odor at is sima Roxburgh}. See PER GULAR I A minor.—A. pallid a [Roxburgh]. PER GULAR I A pad a a pnyeolscuoines [Pursh]. An American species the silk of the seeds of which is used like that of A. Cornuti—A. procera [Aiton]. See CALo TROP IS procera.—A. pro lifer a [Rättler]. An East Indian species. The root is emetic. [B, 180; L, 87.|—A. pseudo sars a [Roxburgh]. The Hemidesmus indicus. [B, 212.]—A. pubescens [Michaux]. See GOMPHOCARPUS arbores cens.—A. pulchra. 1. Of Arrab, the Oxypetalum pulchrum. 2.°Of Ehrhart, a variety of the 4. in carn at a with densely tomentose stem and leaves, [B, 214.]—A. rose a. 1. Of Kunth, a species CHOICE moderate elevations in Central America and Mexico. 2. Of Roxburgh, see OxysTELMA esculentum. [B, 60, 212.]—A. scandens [Beauvois]. See Damia an go lens is,—A. setosa. 1. Of Forskal, see GoMPHOCARPUS setosus. 2. Of Bentham, a Mexican species, the contra yerba de julimes of the inhabitants. It is said to be tonic, diaphoretic, and antiperiodic. [B, 60, 214; * Proc. of the Am. Pharm. A oc.” xxiv, p. 773 (B).]— A. spiral is [Forskal]. See PENT A TRoP IS spiral is.—A. stipitacea [Forskal]. See SAR COST EMMA stipitaceum.—A. syriaca |Linnæus]. See A. Cornuti.—A. tinetoria [Roxburgh]. See MARSDENIA tinct or i a.—A. tingens [Ham.]. See GYMNEMA tingens.—A. to mentos a. 1. Of Thonning, a species of Lepta deni a. 2. Of the “ Herb. Ir,” the Marsdenia tenaci ima, {Bs GS tuberosa [Linnæus). Fr., asclépiade tubéreuse. Ger., knollige Schwalbenwurzel. Pleurisy-root, wind-root, butterfly-weed; a species indigenous to the United States and Canada, bearing alternate se ile leaves and print orange flowers disposed in corymbs. Its root is the a. of the U.S. Ph.; it contains starch, tannin, albumin, pectin, gum, two resins, a fixed oil, a volatile odorous matter, and a peculiar principle having the taste of the root. It has emetic, purgative, diaphoretic, expectorant, and carminative properties. e À. tuberosa of Roxburgh is the Lepta deni a reticulatu. [A,247; B, 34, 212.] —A, tunic at a [* Hort. Calc.”]. See TyLopHorA asthmatic a.—A. undulata [Linnæus]. A species now referred to Xysmalobium, several species of which it includes. [B, 214.] See XysMALOBIUM undulatum.—A. verticllata [Elliott]. A species found in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. It stands about 2 feet high, and bears greenish-white flowers, and leaves from 3 to 5 inches long and only a line in width, usually disposed in whorls of from 4 to 6. The A. verticil lat a, var. pumila [Gray], occurring in the western and southwestern States, is a dwarf many-stemmed leafy plant. The A. verticil lat a, var. subvert i cill at a [Gray] (A. linear is [Scheele in Linnæus]), is a species from 1 foot to 24 feet high, with opposite leaves, growing in ‘Texas, New Mexico, and Mexico. This variety is the romerillo of the Mexicans, the venenillo of the Mex. Ph. Its milky juice is said to be a violent and dangerous cathartic; and the seed-hairs are used like eider-down, and, impregnated with a solution of ferric chloride and well dried, are employed in Mexico asa hemostatic, The A. verticil lat a has been used as an anodyne and sudorific, and as a remedy for venomous bites. y 808; J. M. Maisch, “Am. Jour. of Pharm.,” April, 1886, p. 168; B, 34, 215; “Proc, of the Am. Pharm, A oc.” xxiv CaN » vincetoxicum. See CYNANCHUM vincetoxicum.—A. volubills. See SAR COST EMMA dombeyanum, DREGEA volubil is, and LEPTA DENI A reticulata.—A. vomitoria [Roxburgh]. See TyLornora asthmatic a. — Fieshcolored a. See A. in carn at a.