puc i 
Alyzia.] ^^ xov. APOcYNACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 635. 
ovate, acute. Corolla-tube about twice as long as the calyx; lobes oblong, obtuse, as. 
long as the tube. Ripe carpels 3 in. long, stoutly stipitate, ellipsoid, obtuse, smooth. 
—Habit of a Chilocarpus. 
9. A. coriacea, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Wall. & Carey, ii. 541, and: 
Cat. 9065; bark red-brown, leaves opposite very coriaceous obovate obtuse. 
shining above nerves ascending, cymes very short and shortly peduncled, bracts. 
and calyx-lobes obtuse. Hunteria? coriacea, Wall. Cat. 1610. 
PxNawo; Wallich, Porter. 
Branches very stout. Leaves 2-4 by 1-14 in., narrowed into the petiole, yellow-. 
brown when dry, nerves raised in the upper surface, beneath opaque dull yellow: 
with the nerves very faint; petiole 4—4 in. Cymes À in., few fid., bracts very small. 
Flowers X in. long. Calyx very coriaceous, lobes 4; in., acute, ciliolate. Corolla-tube - 
inflated in the middle, constricted at the mouth, with 5 2-lobed glands, lobes small, 
oblong faleate. Fruit not seen. 
3. A. lucida, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Wall. § Carey, ii. 540; bark 
red-brown, cymes and shoots pubescent, leaves opposite or 3-4 in a whorl 
obovate obtuse or acute very pubescent shining above and almost so beneath,. 
nerves nearly horizontal, cymes very short and shortly peduncled, corolla 2 in.. 
long. A. Gynopogon, Wall. Cat. 1605. 
SixcAPonEg; Wallich. Maracca (cultivated); Maingay. 
Branches very stout, young 4-angled. Leaves 3-4 by 1-14 in., pale, hard and: 
thick when dry, narrowed into a very short petiole; nerves hardly raised on either- 
surface. Cymes } in. long, on thick peduncles, rarely longer than the petioles ; bracts 
oblong, pubescent ; flowers yellow, fragrant. Calyx deeply 5-cleft, segments acute. 
Corolla-tube 4 in., pubescent within; lobes as long, oblong. Ovary villous. Ripe- 
carpels 4 in. long, broadly elliptic, smooth, stipitate. 
4. A. pilosa, Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 408; branches leaves beneath and 
cymes softly pubescent or tomentose, leaves 3-4 in a whorl elliptic-lanceolate. 
very coriaceous shining above, nerves very many horizontal, cymes shortly 
peduncled, flowers villous. 
Maracca ; Mt. Ophir (Herb. Hook.).—DisrRrs. Sumatra, Borneo. 
Branches stout ; bark pale. Leaves 3-5 by 1-1} in., drying green, narrowed into. 
short stout petioles } in., midrib stout beneath; nerves very close, faint on both 
surfaces. Peduncle equalling or shortly exceeding the petiole, very stout, bracts. 
small; flowers subsessile, crowded, 4 in. long.  Calyz-segments ovate-lanceolate, 
obtuse, erect, one-fourth shorter than the corolla. Corolla-tube coriaceous, narrowly 
campanulate above, hairy within and without, lobes very short, rounded, glabrous. 
within. Fruit not seen.—I am a little doubtful about the Malacca locality of this. 
plant, that given above is in Sir W. Hooker’s handwriting on the sheet; that on a 
specimen, evidently of the same collecting, in Bentham's Herbarium, is marked 
** Penang, Hooker, 1857.” 
5. A. pumila, Hook. f.; dwarf, glabrous, leaves opposite or 3 in a whorl 
elliptie-lanceolate obtusely acuminate very coriaceous shining above, nerves very: 
many horizontal, cymes subsessile few-fld. 
Maracca ; Mt. Ophir, Lobb, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1053). 
A small slender shrub (apparently scandent, Maingay); branches slender, young. 
4-angled with granulate red bark. Leaves 1-2 by 4-4 in., drying greenish, narrowed’ 
into slender petioles, } in., midrib prominent beneath, nerves very close and faint on 
_ both surfaces. Cymes 3-6-fld. ; peduncle very short; bracts minute; flowers shortly- 
pedicelled, quite glabrous, } in. long. Calysx-segments small, ovate-lanceolate, thick, 
subacute. Corolla-tube inflated below the constricted mouth, throat villous within ;- 
lobes small, rounded, Fruit À in. long, between globose and ellipsoid, apiculate,. 
pedicel slender. 
