650 XCIV. APOCYNACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Parsonsia. 
20. PARSONSIA, Br. 
Twining shrubs, Leaves opposite. Flowers small, white, in terminal or 
axillary dichotomous cymes or thyrsi. Calyx 5-partite, glandular within or 
naked, or with 5 scales. Corolla salver-shaped, tube short, cylindric or globose, 
throat naked ; lobes overlapping to the right. Stamens inserted in the tube, fila- 
ments often twisted; anthers half-exserted, acute, conniving over and adhering 
to the stigma, cells spurred and empty below. Dise of 5 lobes or scales. Ovary 
2-celled; style filiform, top dilated, truncate, stigma columnar or elongate- 
conical, cells many-ovuled. Fruit cylindric, carpels at length separating from 
the two placentas. Seeds linear or oblong, tip narrowed and penicillate, albu- 
men scanty; cotyledons linear-oblong, flat, radicle superior.—Disrrip. 12 
species of tropical Asia, Australia and New Zealand. 
P. spiralis, Wall. Cat. 1631; quite glabrous, leaves ovate oblong or 
oblong-lanceolate base acute rarely rounded or cordate, cymes axillary corym- 
bose. A. DC. Prodr. viii, 402; Kurz For, Fl. ii. 180. P. oblonga, Wall. Cat. 
1632 ; A. DC. l.c. P. pauciflora and P. acuminata, Wall. Cat, 1633, 1634. 
Helygia javanica, Blume Dijd. 1043. Heligme javanica, A. DC. Le 425. H. 
Rheedei, Wight Ic. t. 1903; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 146. H. spiralis, 
Thwaites Enum. 198. Spirostemon spiralis, Griff. Notul. iv. 80, t. 411, fig. 1. 
Aganosma concanensis, Hook, Ic. Pl. t. 841. 
Struet; Wallich. Peau, TENASSERIM, MALACCA, SINGAPORE and PENANG. WESTERN 
Guats ; from the Concan southwards. CkxLowN, ascending to 3000 ft.—DIsTRIB. 
Malay Archipelago, China. 
An evergreen twiner. Leaves 3-7 by 131-33 in., coriaceous, pale when dry ` nerves 
6-8 pairs, arched ; petiole 3-1 in. Cymes 2-3 in. diam. ; peduncle stout, half as long 
as the leaves; bracts small. Sepals ovate, very thick, obtuse, equalling the corolla- 
tube. Corolla 3 in. diam., coriaceous ; lobes linear-oblong, obtuse. Fruits 7 by 3 in., 
or shorter, elongate, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, quite cylindrie, at length separating 
into 2 coriaceous follicles. Seeds $ in., slender, glabrous; coma as long. 
Trise II. ECHITIDEIE. 
21. VALLARIS, Durm. 
Twining shrubs. eaves opposite, minutely dotted. Flowers white, in 
subaxillary or axillary or supra-axillary dichotomous cymes, or fascicled. Calyx 
5-partite, glandular or not within, segments narrow. Corolla salver-shaped, 
tube short, throat naked; lobes broad, overlapping to the right. Stamens at 
the top of the tube, filaments very short clavate ; anthers exserted, conniving in 
a cone adherent to the stigma, connective with a large dorsal gland, cells with 
rigid basal spurs. Disc various. Carpels 2, at first connate, many-ovuled; 
style filiform, pubescent, stigma thick obscurely annulate. Fruit oblong, 
acuminate, carpels at length separating. Seeds 2-seriate, ovate, acuminate or 
beaked, compressed, tip comose, albumen scanty; cotyledons flat thin, radicle 
superior.—Disrris. Species 5 or 6, tropical Asiatic and Malayan. 
* Flowers cymose. Twining shrubs. 
l. V. Heynei, Spreng. Syst. i. 635; leaves elliptic or oblong or linear- 
oblong acuminate pellucid-dotted, cymes pubescent. A. DC. Prodr. viii. 400 ; 
Dalz, A Gibs. Bomb. Fi. 144, V. dichotoma, Wall. Cat. 1621; Griff. Notul. 
iv. 77 ; A. DC. l.c.; Thwaites Enum. 192; Brand. For. Fl. 327 ; Kurz For, Fl. 
ii, 181; Wight Ic. t. 438. Echites dichotoma, Roxb, Fl, Ind. ii. l9. Peltan- 
thera solanacea, Roth Nov. Sp. 132. 
