Holarrhena.] XCIV. APOCYNACE®. (J. D. Hooker.) 645 
439. ?H. villosa, Ait. ev Loud. in Steud, Nomencl.—Rheede Hort. Mal. i. 
t. 47. 
TnorrcAL Himaraya; ascending to 3500 ft., from the Chenab westwards, and 
throughout the drier forests of Ixpia to TRAVANCORE and Maracca. 
A small deciduous tree, bark pale. Leaves 6-12 by 13-5 in., base obtuse rounded 
or acute ; nerves 10-14 pairs, strong, arched; petiole 0-4 in. Cymes 3-6 in. diam., 
corymbose, sessile, terminal; bracts small, ciliate; pedicels slender. Flowers in- 
odorous, white, 1-2 in. diam., puberulous. Sepals acuminate. Corolla-tube very 
slender, 4-} in.; lobes as long, oblong, tip round. follicles 8-16 by 4 in, very 
slender, parallel, terete, coriaceous, obscurely torulose, usually with small long white 
spots. Seeds 4 in., narrowly linear-oblong, glabrous, coma 2 in., brown. 
2. E. mitis, Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 62 ; glabrous, leaves lanceolate or 
linear-lanceolate obtuse. A. DC. Prodr. viii. 413; Thwaites Enum, 194; 
Beddome For. Fl. Anal. Gen. 161. 
CEYLON ; not uncommon up to 1500 ft. 
A medium-sized tree (Thwaites). Leaves 3-5 by 3-1 in., shining above, paler 
beneath, nerves about 10 pairs; petiole f in. Cymes axillary and terminal, many- 
fld. Corolla-lobes narrowly linear. Follicles upwards of a foot long.—A specimen of 
this is in the Wallichian Herbarium without name or number, ticketed as from Herb. 
Finlayson; probably erroneously, as Finlayson collected only in Siam, 
19. TABERNIEMONTANA, Linn. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite. Flowers white in axillary terminal 
cymes. Calyx 5-lobed or -partite, glandular within, rarely eglandular. Corolla 
salver-shaped, tube cylindric, usually slender, inflated in the middle or top; 
lobes overlapping to the left. Stamens at or above the middle of the tube, 
filaments short or 0; anthers sagittate or base obtuse, acuminate. Disc 0. 
Carpels 2, distinct; style short or long, top urceolate ovoid or clavate, stigma 
short or long 2-lobed; ovules usually many, and o-seriate in each carpel. 
Fruit of 2 ovoid or oblong or reniform, smooth or ribbed ]-many-seeded, ` 
dry or fleshy follicles. Seeds buried in pulp, ovoid-oblong, subterete or com- 
pressed, grooved down one face, smooth striate or rugose, albumen fleshy 
equable or ruminate ; cotyledons ovate, radicle short or long.—Drsrris. About 
110 species in all tropical regions. 
* Calyx 5-lobed to the middle, lobes obtuse, eglandular or with glands on 
their inner faces at the base. —Corolla-lobes globose in bud. 
+ Branches stout ; leaves large coriaceous ; peduncles and pedicels very stout. 
Calyx large. Corolla-tube cylindric, stout. 
1. T. dichotoma, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 20, and Fl. Ind. ii. 21; glabrous, 
leaves coriaceous oblong or obovate- or linear-oblong tip rounded, base acute, 
nerves horizontal, petiole stout, cymes long-peduncled few-fld. .4. DC. Prodr. 
viii, 366; Wight Ic. t. 433 ; Wall. Cat. 1570; Thwaites Enum. 192 ; Bot. Reg. 
1841, t. 53. Cerberea dichotoma, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1516, C. Manghas, Linn., 
partly (Thwaites). Tanghinia dichotoma, G. Don Hort. Brit. ed. 3, 461.— 
Burm. Thes. Zeyl. t. 70, fig. 1. 
Deccan Peninsuta; common in the Western Ghats, Beddome. CEYLON; very 
common in the warmer parts of the island ( Thwaites). 
A small tree; branches very stout, woody, cylindric ; buds resinous. Leaves 4-8 
by 1-2 in., pale yellow-brown when dry, midrib very stout, nerves 16-22 pairs ; 
petiole 1-3 in., base semiamplexicaul. Pedunele 2-5 in., bracts 0. Calyx hemispheric, 
very thick, lobes semicircular. Flowers scarcely fragrant. Corolla white, tube 
1-1 in., yellow, cylindrie, swollen at the very base, limb white, 2-3 in. diam., mouth 
contraeted ; lobes broadly oblong, faleate, obtuse. Anthers half-way down the tube. 
