94 86. APOCYNACEÆ : CARISSEÆ. 
Hoxaxoxa (Champion! Wilford! Ford!) Mus. Brit. ; Herb. 
Kew. 
2. Melodinus monogynus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. p. 56 ; A. DC. Prodr. 
viii. p. 829; Fl. Hongk. p. 218; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. 
p. 629; Bot. Heg. t. 884 ; Bot. Mag. t. 2527. 
Melodinus lztus, Champ. in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. iv. p. 332. 
Honexone (Champion! Wilford! Urquhart!). Mus. Brit.; 
Herb. Kew. 
Eastern India and Malaya. 
The limits of this species have been variously defined, and it 
should perhaps include M. fusiformis, Champ. 
3. Melodinus suaveolens, Champ. in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. iv. 
p. 333; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 218. 
Lycimnia suaveolens, Hance in Walp. Ann. iii. p. 30. 
Cura: without locality (Millett!); Howakowa (Wilford! 
Champion! Wright! Urquhart! Tate! Ford!). Mus. Brit.; 
Herb. Kew. 
Melodinus Cumingianus, A. DC. (Prodr. viii. p. 330), from the 
Philippine Islands, is perhaps the same as this. 
4. Melodinus ? sp. n.; ramulis floriferis, petiolis pedicellis 
calycibusque pubescentibus, calycis lobis acutis, corolla lobis 
ovato-oblongis squamis parvis notatis. 
SzECHUEN: Mount Omei, at 3000 feet (Faber !).. Herb. 
Kew. 
This is distinct from the foregoing, but there is only one 
branchlet, bearing five or six leaves, and a few flowers. 
[Allamanda cathartica, Linn. (Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 217; Bot. 
Mag. t. 338), a native of tropical South America, is naturalized in 
Hongkong and other parts of the Old World.] 
[“ Leuconotis, sp. n.?," Benth. (Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. iv. 
p. 333), from Hongkong, collected by Eyre, has been removed 
to the genus Gertnera by Seemann.] 
[Carissa Carandas, Linn. (DC. Prodr. viii. p. 332), a common 
Indian and Malayan shrub, is recorded from China by De Can- 
dolle, but we have seen no Chinese specimens.] 
