APOCYNACEAE. — TRACHELOSPERMUM 341 
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Subgen. 4. LACHNOCARPUS Schneider, n. subgen. Descriptio in clavi. 
As stated before by King & Gamble, the two species referred to this subgenus 
may be found to form a new genus,! but without having made a thorough study 
of all the genera of the subfamily Echitoideae I am afraid to propose one. The 
leaves and the shape of the flowers look very different from those of the other 
species of Trachelospermum, but the flat (possibly not yet fully ripe) follicles I 
have seen resemble to a certain degree those of the subgen. Azillanthus. See the 
description of T. auritum Schneider. ; 
10. Trachelospermum Curtisii King & Gamble in Jour. As. Soc. Bengal, LX XIV. 
pt. 2, extra number, 499 (Mat. Fl. Mal. Penins. No. 19, 709) (1907). 
MALAYA. Penang: at Balick Pulan, C. Curtis (No. 838, type ex King & Gam- 
ble) Perak: King's Collector (No. 5194, co-type ex King & Gamble). 
King & Gamble mention the following species as a new unnamed one “ which 
approaches very near to this." According to their description T. Curtisii differs 
mainly in its longer fruits (from 8 to 9 in. long); the corolla-lobes are described as 
“ obliquely triangular-spathulate, dentate at apex," and the tube is apparently a 
little shorter than that of the following species, which has at least ten small scales 
at the base of the sepals or sometimes more (or the scales are deeply divided), while 
in T. Curtisii according to the author there are small subulate scales between the 
lobes, that is, only five. 
11. Trachelospermum auritum Schneider, n. sp. 
Frutex scandens; ramuli hornotini rotundi, fistulosi, laxe (ad nodos densius) 
subhirtello-villosi, sordide rubro-brunnescentes. Folia membranacea, late elliptica 
v. paulo obovata, basi aurito-cordata, apice valde subito in acumen angustum cau- 
datum contracta, margine integra, strigoso-ciliata, 8-15 em. longa (apice 8-15 mm. 
longo incluso), 4-10 em. lata, supra intense viridia, in costa nervisque tenuiter im- 
pressis v. etiam in facie pilis strigosis satis longis sparse pilosa, interdum subscabra, 
subtus paulo (in sicco) discoloria, similiter sed brevius pilosa, costanervisque laterali- 
bus utrinque circiter 10 angulo 50-80? ab illa divergentibus, distincte transversaliter 
reticulata; petioli breves, supra suleati, dense strigosi, 0.6-1 cm. longi; glandulae 
Inter- et intrapetiolares, pilis strigosis occultae, purpureae. Inflorescentiae pro 
Eenere normales, terminales, sessiles, modo ramulorum strigoso-pilosae, pedun- 
s primariis tribus 2-3 cm. longis; bracteae lanceolatae, satis breves, pilosae; 
pedicelli 4-8 mm. longi, bracteolis parvis suffulti; segmenta calycis lineari-lanceo- 
ata, 22-95 libera, 3-4 mm. longa, apice patula, extus plus minusve pilosa, ciliata, 
intus basi squamulis ut videtur 10 v. pluribus satis parvis oblongis instructa; 
flores albi, hypocraterimorphi; tubus circiter 15 mm. longus, ima basi éonstrictus, 
infra medium ad insertionem staminum dilatatus, circiter 2mm. crassus, a medio ad 
apicem angustatus, extus lineis 5 pilosis (in alabastro multo distinctius) praeditus, 
ceterum sparse tenuiter pilosus, intus ab apice staminum ad fauces sparse v. vix 
pilosus, ceterum glaber; lobi sinistrorsum convoluti, oblongo-spathulati, tubo 
subaequilongi, apice leviter emarginati et 8-9 mm. lati, in alabastro extus pilosuli; 
Stamina pro genere normalia; gynaeceum fere typicum; ovarium apice villosulum, 
disco 5-lobato fere aequilongo cinctum; stylus gracilis, stigmate conico oblongo apice 
' The authors say that in the Kew Herbarium T. Curtisii was placed with 
ha G. Don, and that in some respects it comes nearest to Epigynum 
Wight. The type of Chonemorpha (Ch. macrophylla G. Don) is widely different in 
the structure of the flowers, while that of Epigynum (E. Grifithianum Wight, Icon. 
Pl. Ind. Orient. IV. 4, t. 1308 [1850]), which I know only from Wight's plate, in the 
structure of the flowers seems less different, but I have been unable to find a good 
description of the fruits of this genus. 
