Chilocarpus.] XCIV. APOCYNACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) ; 627 
very thickly coriaceous, brown and opaque above when dry, brighter brown beneath, 
midrib stout; petiole 4 in. Flowers unknown. Fruit on a very stout woody pedicel 
with remains of minute persistent bracts in spiral series, bright orange coloured ; 
pericarp very thick, dehiscent, pulp coarsely granular. Seeds very numerous, 
irregularly broadly oblong, ends rounded, hilum excavated, testa smooth, albumen 
solid horny. 
3. C. decipiens, Hook. f.; glabrous, leaves elliptic-oblong or -ovate 
btusely acuminate, base acute, nerves very numerous slender nearly horizontal, 
fruit linear-oblong cylindric rounded at both ends, pericarp woody. 
Maracca; Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1060 and 1043, C. atro-viridis). 
Leaves 3-34 by 1-1}, hardly shining above and greenish when dry, beneath pale 
‘brown minutely dotted; nerves very slender but prominent on both surfaces; petiole 
Xin. Cymes rather slender, dichotomously branched ; flowers not seen. Fruit 13-23. 
by 4—4 in., on a stout pedicel bearing numerous minute bracts in spirals. See 
large, ‘‘albumen horny, dull white; cotyledons blood-red, fleshy, convolute” (Main- 
gay).—The foliage resembles C. atro-viridis, but there are no recurrent nerves between 
the primaries. 
*** Pedicels bracteate at the base only ; flowers long ; tube of corolla inflated 
towards the base. 
4. C. Maingayi, Dyer in Herb. Kew.; glabrous, leaves elliptic-oblong 
obtuse base acute, nerves numerous slightly arched strong beneath, cymes long 
very stout, pedicels subverticillately branched. 
Maracca ; Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1046). 
A climber ; branches stout, smooth, shining, swollen at the nodes. Leaves 3-4 by 
1—2 in., coriaceous, opaque, dull yellowish green when dry on both surfaces; nerves 
20-30 pairs, with a recurrent one from the intramarginal between each pair; petiole 
$ in. very stout. Cymes elongate. erect; peduncles very stout, 1-3 in., bearing 
superposed pairs of very short branches, the crowded flowers of which give them a 
‘somewhat whorled appearance ; flowers $ in. long, sessile or stoutly pedicelled. Calyx- 
lobes rounded, short. Corolla-tube very slender, with a ring of hairs below the 
anthers within; lobes inflexed and forming an ovoid bud much broader than the tube, 
when expanded 4 in. long, ovate-lanceolate, narrowed into long points. Anthers 
small, ovate, longer than the slender filament. Ovary acute, “ 1-ceiled with 4 parietal 
placentas,” Maingay. Fruit “ spherical and obtusely conoid, coriaceous, fleshy, cap- 
sular, orange-yellow. Seeds very many, immersed in angular bright yellow masses 
(pulp), mixed with delicate arachnoid fibres, subquadrate, curved on one surface, 
deeply channelled on the other ; testa cartilaginous, bright brown; albumen horny ; 
embryo axile; cotyledons semi-oval, flat, white " ( Maingay). 
9. LEUCONOTIS, Jack. 
Erect milky evergreen shrubs. Leaves opposite, nerves distant. Flowers in 
peduncled axillary cymes, 4-merous, Calyx 4-lobed or -partite, eglandular or ` 
minutely glandular within. Corolla salver-shaped, tube dilated in the middle, 
throat naked ; lobes 4, short, overlapping to the left. Stamens 4,in the middle 
of the tube, included, anthers linear, cells rounded at the base. Dise 0. Ovary 
2-celled ; style short, top thickened, stigma 2-toothed; ovules 2, laterally 
affixed in each cell. Berry ovoid or globose, Seeds 1-3, imbedded in pulp, 
ovoid-oblong, testa membranous, albumen 0; cotyledons thick, fleshy, inner 
faces irregular, radicle short superior.— DISTRIB. Species 6, Malayan (not 
Javan). 
* Calyx 4-partite, segments long linear. 
1. L. eugenifolius, 4. DC. Prodr. | iii. 5:15 shoots petioles and nerves 
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