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628 XCIV. APOCYNACEX, (J. D. Hooker.) [ Leuconotis.. 
beneath rusty-puberulous, leaves opaque above oblong obtusely caudate base 
obtuse, nerves 8-10 pairs united by a strong intramarginal one, cymes few-fld. 
Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 3908. L. cuspidatus, Blume Mus. Bot. i, 112; Mique? 
l.c. 998,  Melodinus? eugenifolius, Wall. Cat. 1616. 
Penance ; Wallich.— DisrRrB. Sumatra, Borneo. 
Branches strict, obscurely angled, bark smooth. Leaves 3-4 by l]-1j in, tip. 
lin. long, very narrow, pale or dark greenish-brown when dry above, beneath much 
paler yellow-brown and minutely dotted and with strong horizontal nerves; petiole: 
slender, 4-4 in. Cymes erect; peduncle 1 in.; bracts linear; pedicels short ; flowers 
erect, nearly 4 in. long. Sepals very narrow, erect, deciduous in fruit. Corolla coria- 
ceous, tube as long or half as long again as the calyx, pubescent within; lobes short, 
puberulous on both surfaces. Anthers sessile, elongate-lanceolate. Ovary deeply 
grooved, narrowed into the grooved style, stigma oblong, 2-fid. Fruit “ the size of a 
gooseberry,” Don. 
** Calyx 4-lobed, lobes short rounded. 
2, L. Griffithii, Hook. f.; glabrous, leaves elliptic obtusely acuminate- 
shining above base rounded or subacute, nerves 5-7 pairs very faint, cymes 
shortly stoutly peduncled glabrous, flowers densely crowded sessile or shortly 
pedicelled. 
Maracca ; Griffith, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1051, L. anceps?). ? SINGAPORE; T. 
Anderson. 
Branches obscurely angled, lenticellate. Leaves 3-5 by 13-2 in., thickly coriaceous, 
pale brown when dry, beneath paler still and very opaque chocolate-brown, and 
minutely dotted or not, intramarginal nerve very faint; petiole 3-1 in. Cymes erect, 
pedunele shorter and stouter than the petiole; branehes very short, thiek and 
crowded; bracts small, broad; flowers j in. long. Calyx small, lobes rounded.. 
Corolla thickly coriaceous, tube cylindric, glabrous within and without; lobes short, 
rounded forming an ovoid bud broader than the tube. Anthers sessile, narrowly lan- 
ceolate, acuminate. Fruit 1} in. long, broadly ellipsoid. Seeds 4 in. long, oblong, 
compressed, smooth.—Very near L. anceps, Jack., but which has long-peduncled 
puberulous cymes with long-pedicelled flowers. Anderson’s Singapore specimens 
have the leaves opaque above, and broader, but the flowers appear to be identical. 
3. L. Maingayi, Dyer in Herb. Kew.; quite glabrous, leaves oblong 
abruptly obtusely acuminate shining above, nerves 6-10 pairs slender arched, 
base acute or rounded, cymes very shortly and very stoutly peduncled glabrous 
few-flowered, flowers sessile or stoutly pedicelled. 
SixcaronE; Maingay (Kew Distrib. 935). 
Characters very much those of L. Griffihii, but a much stouter plant; leaves 
coriaceous but very dark brown, with stronger nerves beneath and longer petioles, 
1-11 in. long; peduncle of cymes 1-3 in., and -4 in. diam.; calyx much larger, as 
broad as the peduncle of the cyme ; bracts triangular, thickly coriaceous. 
4 MELODINUS, Forst. 
Evergreen, erect or climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite. Cymes terminal and 
axillary, flowers rarely 4-merous, white or pale pink. Calyx 5-partite, eglan- 
dular within. Corolla salver-shaped, mouth with thick cleft or lobed scales ; 
lobes overlapping to the left. Anthers included, subsessile, lanceolate, cells 
rounded at the base. Disc 0. Ovary 2-celled, acute ; style short, stigma thick 
2-fid; ovules many in each cell. Berry globose, pericarp coriaceous or hard. 
Seeds many, imbedded in pulp, albumen fleshy; cotyledons thin, radicle short. 
—Duisrriz, About 15 species, East Asiatic, Malayan, Australian and Pacific. 
