TUS COH URN SPUR ME oU E ETE mm 
Willoughbeia.] xciv. APocyNACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 625 
leaf. Burbidge has made in Borneo excellent drawings of the whole plant in flower 
and fruit. In both Singapore and Borneo it is said to yield the * Gutta Singarip." 
5. W. grandiflora, Dyer in Herb. Kew.; quite glabrous, leaves elliptic 
or orbicular tip and base rounded very thickly coriaceous pale, nerves 4-7 pairs 
very strong arching interspaces with distant reticulations, cymes densely many- 
fld., corolla-lobes very large oblong much longer than the slender tube. 
Maracca; Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1047).—DrsrRr5. Borneo. 
A very stout climber, with woody tendrils, branches as thick as a goose-quill. 
Leaves 3-5 by 3-3} in., very pale yellowish-red and rather shining above when dry, 
beneath cinnamon coloured and soft to the touch, with midrib and nerves very distinct 
but not prominent; petiole stout, j-1 in. Cymes very dense-fld.; flowers shortly and 
stoutly pedicelled. Calyx broad, lobes rounded. Corolla nearly 1 in. long before 
expansion, tube $ in., very slender, swollen towards the base, lobes 3-1 in. long, tip 
rounded. Anthers lanceolate, base cordate, filaments slender. Ovary minute, broadly 
conical; style very short, base conical, top urn-shaped ; stigma slender, as long as 
the style. 
6. W. tenuiflora, Dyer in Herb. Kew.; shoots and cymes pubescent, 
leaves elliptic-oblong or oblanceolate obtusely acuminate base acute, nerves 20— 
30 pairs very slender nearly horizontal interspaces nerveless, petiole slender. 
Maracca; Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1049). 
Branches with black bark. Leaves 3-4 by 1-14 in., thinly coriaceous, dark brown 
and hardly shining above when dry, pale brighter brown beneath but without reticu- 
lations between the nerves, margins flat; petiole 4-2 in. Cymes numerous, rusty 
puberulous, subsessile, dense-flowered ; bracts small, rounded.  Calyz-lobes rounded. 
Corolla-tube % in. long, slender, hairy within, globose near the base just above the 
calyx; lobes narrowly linear-oblong, obtuse. Anthers cordate-lanceolate, filaments 
short slender. Ovary hemispheric, top almost truncate; style very short, stigma 
large, elongate conic. Fruit 4 in. long, **pyriform, abounding in caoutchouc ; peri- 
carp thick, leathery. Seeds many, naked, cotyledons pink fleshy " (Maingay), 
** Mouth of the corolla with tubercles or scales. (Tendrils not seen.) 
7. W. oblonga, Dyer in Herb. Kew.; branches very stout, leaves elliptic 
obtuse or suddenly obtusely contracted at the tip opaque. above, base acute, 
nerves 10-15 pairs arched interspaces reticulated, cymes sessile dense-fld., 
corolla-lobes linear-oblong longer than the rather long tube, berry oblong. 
Maracca ; Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1089). 
A long flexuose shrub (Maingay). Branches woody, obtusely angled, rough, with 
close-set small lenticels, bark pale. Leaves 3-6 by 11-3 in., base usually rounded. 
thickly coriaceous; when dry dark brown and opaque on both surfaces; petiole stout. 
i in. Cymes very small, sessile, pedicels very short. Caly«-lobes short, oblong, 
strongly ciliate. Corolla-tube } in., rather slender, inflated in the middle, lobes twice 
as long, with glands or tubercles at the sinus. Berry many-seeded, pericarp leathery. 
Seeds 2-seriate, imbedded in firm pulp ; cotyledons large, fleshy (Maingay),—Abounds 
in tenacious milky juice. 
8. W. flavescens, Dyer in Herb. Kew.; quite glabrous, leaves ellipt'c 
obtusely acuminate base subacute or rounded, nerves numerous nearly horizontal 
very slender interspaces reticulated, cymes sessile many-fld., corolla-tube very 
short, tubercles at the mouth small lobulate. Chilocarpus flavescens, Kew 
Gard, Report, 1880, 47. H 
SiwcAPonE; in jungles near the Botanic Gardens, H. Murton. “ A large climber : 
stem 8 in. diam." (Murton). 
Branches stout, smooth, divaricate, somewhat compressed, nodes swollen, bark 
brown. Leaves 3-4 by 13-21 in., thickly coriaceous, dirty brown and opaque above when 
dry, brighter and paler yellowish-brown beneath, nerves very distinet though slender ; 
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