H 
626 XOIV. APOCYNACEX. (J. D. Hooker.)  [Willoughbeia. 
petiole 1—3 in., stout. Cymes numerous, 1 in. diam., branches divaricate ; braets very 
minute; flowers pedicelled, 4-6-merous. Calyx small, lobes broadly ovate. Carolla- 
tube inflated, quite glabrous within; lobes slightly faleate, forming an oblong bud 
narrower than the tube, which they nearly equal in length. Amthers shortly ovate, 
twice as long as the filaments. Ovary distinctly 1-celled with parietal many-ovuled 
placentas, Fruit unknown. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 
9. W. RUFESCENS, Dyer in Herb. Kew.; leaves elliptic or elliptie-oblong or -lanceo- 
late, obtuse, very coriaceous, shining above, red-brown when dry beneath, nerves 
16-20 pairs very slender, slightly arched, interspaces reticulated. 
Maracca, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1092). 
Branches divaricate, thickened at the nodes, bark black ; tendrils not seen, Leaves 
21.3 by 1-14 in. dirty brown above, bright-brown beneath; petiole } in, Fruit 
(unripe) globose, nearly 2 in. diam, ; 
2. CHILOCARPUS, Blume. 
Milky sarmentose shrubs. Leaves opposite, nerves horizontal close. Flowers 
small, in axillary cymes. Calyx short, 5-lobed, eglandular. Corolla-tube cylin- 
dric, throat naked ; lobes 5, broad, overlapping to the left, twisted to the right. 
Stamens at or below the middle of the tube; anthers lanceolate, acute, cells 
rounded at the base. Disc 0. Ovary 1-celled, placentas 2 parietal ; style short, 
stigma ovoid or conical, tip obscurely 2-toothed ; ovules many, 2-seriate on each 
placenta. Berry fleshy, at length 2-valved. Seeds imbedded in pulp, or in a 
granular substance, compressed or thick, grooved or excavated at the hilum, 
albumen copious, horny, equable or ruminate; cotyledons flat, radicle elongate. 
—Disrris. Species 8, Malayan and Australian. 
* Pedicels bracteate at the base only; flowers very small, in lax panicled 
cymes ; tube of corolla inflated in the middle (fruit unknown). 
l. C. atro-viridis, Blume Mus. Bot. i. 153; glabrous, leaves oblong 
obtusely caudate, nerves very numerous nearly horizontal straight slender. 
Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 393. O. malabaricus, Beddome Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 175. 
Hunteria? atro-viridis, Wall. Cat. 1614 ; A. DC. Prodr. vii. 951. Winchia 
atro-viridis, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 170. 
Matayan PENINSULA; Tavoy, Gomez; Mergui, Griffith, Parish. Maranan; Bed- 
dome. 
Branches slender; bark smooth, sparsely lenticellate. Leaves 34-6 by 13-2 in., 
thinly coriaceous, base acute, green and opaque when dry above, paler green beneath, 
minutely dotted and with a recurrent nerve from the marginal one between every 
pair of primaries; petiole 1-3 in., slender. Cymes 2-4 in., on slender pedicels ; 
branches trichotomous, spreading, slender ; flowers pedicelled, 3-nate or subumbellate ; 
bracts minute. Calya-lobes rounded, with white margins. Corolla } in. long, tube 
inflated in the middle, glabrous externally, pubescent at the mouth and base of the 
stamens within; lobes short, faleate, broadly notched on one side, inflexed and forming 
a globose bud. Anthers subsessile, oblong, Ovary acute. Fruit unknown.—The C. 
denudatus, Blume, of Java, may prove to be the same as this. 
** Pedicels with many imbricate bracts; flowers very small ; fruits capsular. 
2. C. enervis, Hook. f., leaves oblong or elliptic-lanceolate obtuse or 
obtusely apiculate narrowed into a slender petiole nerveless, fruit 4 in. ellipsoid 
narrowed to an obtuse point base contracted into a short stipes, pericarp very 
thick. 
Maracca ; Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1044). 
Scandent; branches tout, smooth, swollen at the nodes. Leaves 3 by 1-1} ims 
