640 XCIV. APOCYNACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [Rhazya. 
Corolla salver-shaped, tube cylindrie, with reflexed hairs beneath the stamens: 
within, throat constricted hairy ; lobes 5, short, broad, overlapping to the left. 
Stamens above the middle of the tube, included; anthers lanceolate, cells. 
rounded at the base. Disc annular or obscure, Carpels 2, distinct; style fili- 
form, top broad thickened, stigma sometimes furnished with a reflexed mem-- 
brane, top 2-globose; ovules many, 2-seriate in each carpel. Follicles 2, erect, 
slender, Seeds many, subterete or angled and compressed, truncate or winged 
above and below, albumen fleshy ruminate ; cotyledons oblong, thick, radicle: 
superior.—Disrris. 2 species, Arabian and Indian. 
R. stricta, Decaisne in Ann. Nat. Se. ser. 2, iv. 81, and in Jacquem. Voy. 
Bot. t. 111; leaves elliptic-lanceolate acute coriaceous, corolla-lobes ovate mu-- 
cronate. A. DC. Prodr, viii. 886; Brandis For. Fl. 322; Boiss, Fl. Orient. iv.. 
47.— Apocyn. Wall. Cat, 7478. 
Scixpe ; Stocks; in the Trans-Indian territory, common ` Salt-range, Fleming ;. 
Peshawur, Stewart,—Disrris. Affghanistan, Beluchistan, Arabia. 
A small glabrous very stout erect sparingly branched leafy shrub. Leaves 3-4 
by 3-3 in, yellowish and leathery when dry, sessile. Flowers in short axillary, 
stoutly branched cymes, shortly and stoutly pedicelled; bracts subulate, persistent. 
Calyz-lobes acute, Corolla white, tube A in., upper half inflated, — Fo/lieles erect, 
parallel, 2-3 by } in., slightly compressed, thinly coriaceous. Seeds 4 in. long, an- 
gularly compressed, shortly winged.—There is no specimen of this on the sheet im 
Wallich’s Herbarium to which his ticket, No. 7478, is attached, but the note on that 
ticket is “ Apoeyn. (ex Royleo in eujus Herbar. adsunt specim. et icon. pict.) viminea, 
subaphylla, Doab Hindostanie, 1825," leaves no doubt as to the plant meant ; added 
to which the icon alluded to, made by Royle's artists, is in the Kew collection o£ 
drawings. 
14. VINCA, Linn. 
Erect or procumbent herbs or shrubs. eaves opposite. Flowers solitary,. 
axillary. Calyx 5-partite, eglandular, segments narrow. Corolla salver-shaped ; 
tube cylindric, with usually reflexed hairs below the stamens; throat constricted ,. 
hairy or thickened; lobes broad, overlapping to the left. Stamens above the- 
middle of the tube, included ; anthers various. Dise of 2 large glands. Carpels 
2, distinct ; style filiform, top thick, stigma annulate viscid sometimes with a 
reflected membrane, tip minute penicillate: ovules 6 or more, 2-seriate in each 
carpel. Follicies 2, slender, erect or spreading. Seeds subcylindric, truncate at 
both ends, hilum lateral, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons ovate, radicle long superior. 
—Disrris. About 10 species, European, Indian, American, and Madagascarian.. 
V. roska, Linn. (V. Gulielmi Waldemarii, Klotzsch in Reise Pr. Waldem. Bot. t. 
70); a West Indian plant, is much cultivated about pagodas, &e.; it has obovate 
leaves and rosy flowers 13-2 in. diam. 
V. pusilla, Murr. in Act. Goett, 1772, 66, t. 2, fig. 1; annual, erect, 
glabrous, branched from the base, leaves lanceolate acuminate, flowers very 
small subsessile, sepals filiform. A.DC. Prodr. viii. 9882 ; Dalz. § Gibs. Bomb 
Fl. 144. V. parviflora, Retz Obs. ii. n. 33; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii, 1. Catharan-- 
thus roseus, G. Don Gen, Syst. iv. 95.—Rheede Hort. Mal. ix. t. 93. 
Western Himaraya; Garwhal, alt. 2000 ft., Str. 4 Winterd.; UPPER Ganceric 
Prain, Royle, &e. Throughout the Deccan, common. 
An erect, pale-green annual, 1-2 ft. high; stem and branches acutely 4-angled.. 
Leaves 13-23 by 4-} in., membranous, acuminate, margins minutely seabrid, stipular 
‘glands subulate; petiole } in, or less, slender. Flowers } in. long, on short pedicels, 
white. Corolla mouth narrow, hairy; throat glabrous, thickened. Follicles 2-3 in., 
very slender, diverging, straight, membranous. Seeds A, in., linear-oblong, cylindric, 
rounded at both ends; testa black, many-ribbed, ribs rough. 
