632 xciv. APOCYNACEE. (J.D. Hooker.) > [Oarisea. 
Vahl's C. inermis, described by him from a spineless branch, which justifies the aban- 
donment of his name inermis. 
5. C. suavissima, Beddome mss. ; climbing, quite glabrous, leaves 2-3 in. 
broadly ovate acute or acuminate many-nerved, cymes sessile, corolla 1 in. long, 
berry 2 in. long. 
Deccan Peninsvra ; mountains of the Madura district, Beddome. 
This closely resembles C. macrophylla; but differs in the slender climbing habit, 
very small spines, broader paler leaves, the perfectly glabrous flowers and large 
berries. Col. Beddome deseribes it as a lofty climber with milky and most delicious 
fruit. 
TRIBE I. PLUMERIEZX. 
7. RAUWOTLFIA, Linn. 
Glabrous (the Indian) shrubs. Leaves 3-4-nately whorled, rarely opposite ; 
nerves slender, remotely arched, axils glandular. “Peduncles alternating with 
the terminal leaves, becoming lateral. Calyx 5-fid or -partite, eglandular within. 
Corolla salver-shaped, tube cylindric, mouth constricted, throat usually hairy 
within ; lobes broad, overlapping to the left. Stamens included at or above the 
middle of the tube ; anthers small, acute, cells rounded at the base. Disc large, 
cup-shaped or annular. Carpels 2, distinct or connate; style filiform, stigma 
broad calyptriform at the base, tip 2-fid; ovules 2, collateral in each carpel, 
Jüpe carpels drupaceous, distinct or connate, usually l-seeded. Seeds ovoid, 
albumen fleshy; cotyledons flat.—Drsrrip, Species about 40, chiefly tropical 
American, * 
* Corolla-tube slender, inflated a little above the middle. 
1. R. serpentina, Benth. in Gen. PI. ii. 697 ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate 
or obovate acute or acuminate, nerves 8-12 pairs, cymes long-peduncled rounded 
rarely racemose fruiting erect, sepals short lanceolate, corolla-tube long slender 
shortly globosely inflated above the middle, drupes 1 in. broadly obliquely 
ovoid. Kurz For. Fl. ii, 17. Ophioxylon serpentinum, Linn. ; A. DC. Prodr. 
viii, 942 ; Bot. Mag. t. 784; Jones in As. Research. iv. 308; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 
694, and ed. Carey § Wall. ii. 530; Wight Ic. t. 849; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 
116; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 144; Bedd. For. Fl. Anal. Gen. 156; Mig. Fi. 
Ind. Bat. ii. 404. O. trifoliatum, Gaertn. Fruct. ii. 129, t. 109, fig. 2; Miquel 
l.e. O. obversum, Miquel l.c. 405. Tabernziemontana cylindracea, Wall. Cat. 
4451.—Rheede Hort. Mal. t. 47; Burm. Fl. Zeyl. t. 64. 
Tnorrcar, HrwArAYA and plains near the foot of the hills from Sirkind, Edgeworth, 
and Moradabad, Thomson, to Sikkim. The Kuasta Mrs., ascending to 4000 ft. ; 
Assam, Dro, TrnassertM, and in the Deccan PENINSULA, along the Ghats to TRAVAN- 
CORE and Cryton.—Disrrin, Java. 
A small shrub, 6-18 in., rarely 2-3 ft. high, bark white, rarely lenticellate. 
Leaves 3-7 by 13-2} in., green when dry, very pale beneath, narrowed into a short 
petiole. Cymes 1-2 in, diam., many-flowered ; peduncle 2-5 in., stout, branches 
and pedicels red; bracts obsolete; pedicels 1-3 in.; flowers white or pinkish, nearly 
1 in. long. Calyx small.  Corolla-tube often curved; lobes not one-quarter the 
length of the tube, margins undulate; throat hairy. Drupes black, endocarp slightly 
rugose. 
9. R. peguana, Hook. J.; leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate acuminate, 
cymes sessile branched from the base branches divaricate, calyx-lobes ovate 
acute, corolla-tube slender inflated in the middle, 
Prev; Kurz. 
Branches rather slender, not lenticellate. Leaves opposite and three in a whorl, 
