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-Melodinus.] XCIV. APOCYNACER. (J. D. Hooker.) 629 
* Flowers in terminal panicled cymes.  Corolla-lobes oblong or rounded, 
«quite entire. 
1. M. monogynus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 56; leaves oblong or oblong-lan- 
ceolate acute or obtuse base acute or rounded, corolla-tube 3-$ in., lobes as long 
oblong, A. DC. Prodr. viii. 329; Wall. Cat. 1603; Wight Ic. t. 394; Bot. 
Reg. t. 834; Bot. Mag. t. 2527.  Echaltium piscidium, Wight Ic. t. 242, 
evel. fig. of fruit. Nerium piscidium, Roxb, Fl. Ind. ii. 7, evel. deser. of fruit. 
Srxxiw Hrwaraya; at Bartning, alt. 4500 ft. (leaves only), Clarke. Assam, 
Srzuet and the Kuasia Mrs., common, ascending to 4000 ft. Psnana; Maingay. 
A tall milky climber, branches smooth. Leaves 5-6 by 14-2 in., pale brown 
when dry and shining above, nerves many but not close, very slender, arching; 
‘petiole 1-1 in. Panicles puberulous, sometimes 12 in. long, brachiate, drooping ; 
Howers usually 3-nate, nearly white, fragrant; pedicels long or short; bracts 
-eaducous, Calyx-segments $ in., broad, ciliolate. Corolla-tube villous or bearded 
within, lobes obtuse. Fruit globose, obscurely 4-angled, size and colour of an orange; 
pericarp coriaceous. Seeds numerous.— Roxburgh erred in describing the scales of 
‘the corolla as being undivided. 
2, M. khasianus, Hook. f. ; leaves linear-lanceolate acuminate at both 
-ends membranous, cymes short few-fld., corolla-tube & in., lobes rounded. 
Kuasa Mrs. ; Moflong wood, &c., alt. 5-7000 ft., Griffith, J. D. H. 4 T. T. 
A smaller plant in all its parts than M. monogynus, with leaves 21-5 by 1-1} in., 
and more membranous, very much smaller flowers with a short corolla-tube and 
rounded lobes, and with the fruit only 13 in. diam. 
** Flowers small in axillary cymes or fascicles. ` Corolla-lobes very obliquely 
2-lobed or 2-fid at the tip. 
3. M. orientalis, Blume Bijd. 1026, and Mus. Bot. i. 155, fig. 411; 
quite glabrous, leaves oblong or elliptic-oblong obtusely acuminate base acute, 
‘nerves very numerous nearly horizontal very slender, cymes shortly peduncled 
few-fld., corolla 4 in. lobes short obliquely ovate bicuspidate, scales closing the 
mouth very thick fleshy lobulate. Miquel Fl, Ind. Bat. ii. 595, t. 34; A. DC. 
Prodr, viii. 330; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 250, in note, Hunteria ? 
cuspidata, Wall. Cat. 1600 ; A. DC. Le. 350, Alyxia? cuspidata, Wall. Herb. 
Chilocarpus cuspidatus, Benth. in Gen. Pl, ii. 698 (under Hunteria). 
Penance ; Wallich, Phillips, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1043/2, Chilocarpus sua- 
-veolens),—Distrin. Java, Sumatra. 
Branches smooth, rather slender, bark very dark. Leaves 4-5 by 13-2 in., thinly 
coriaceous, greenish brown and shining above when dry, pale yellower green beneath, 
margins a little undulate; petiole 4-3 in. Cymes with very short stout peduncles; 
flowers crowded; bracts rounded, persistent. Calyx small. lobes rounded. Corolla 
very thickly coriaceous, tube swollen in the middle, lobes forming a globose bud; 
lobes shorter than the tube. Fruit * large, yellow” (Maingay). 
4. MI. ? micranthus, Hook. f. ; quite glabrous, leaves elliptic-lanceolate 
obtusely acuminate base acute nerves remote very slender, cymes subsessile 
many-flowered, corolla 3-3 in. long, lobes short unequally obtusely 2-lobed, 
scales closing the mouth 2-lobed. 
Maracca ; Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1090). 
Branches smooth, rather slender; bark black. Leaves 3-6 by 1—17 in., coriaceous, 
dark brown and shining when dry above, paler bright brown beneath, margins some- 
what undulate ; petiole 4 in. Fascicles of flowers }—} in. diam. ; bracts broad, short, 
‘deciduous. Calyx very small, lobes rounded. Corolla coriaceous, tube much swollen 
in the middle; lobes short, forming a globose bud, obliquely 2-fid, sinus broad, 
