Daemia
(its Arabic name). ORD. Asclepiadeae. A genus comprising six species of stove evergreen twiners, natives of tropical Asia and Africa. Flowers umbellate; corolla sub-rotate, with a short tube; corona double, the outer one an annular five or ten-lobed membrane. Leaves opposite, cordate. They thrive in a compost of fibry peat and loam, with a small quantity of sand added. Cuttings of firm side shoots will root in sandy soil, if placed under a glass, in bottom heat.
D. extensa (extended). fl., margins of corolla ciliated; peduncles and pedicels elongated, filiform. July. l. roundish-cordate, acuminated, acute, auricled at the base, downy. East Indies, 1777. SYN. Raphistemma ciliatum. (B. M. 5704.)