Nerium.] XCIV. APOCYNACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 655 
subglobose. Follicles elongate, cylindric, straight, hard, appressed. Seeds 
oblong, villous, coma terminal caducous, albumen fleshy; cotyledons flat, 
thiekish, radicle superior.—D1srRrs. Species 2 or 3, Mediterranean region, 
N. Asian and Japanese. 
N. odorum, Soland. in Hort. Kew. ed. i. v. i. 207; flowers scented, ap- 
pendages of the corolla cleft into 4-7 linear segments, spurs of anthers linear 
twice as long as the cells. Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 48; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 420; 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 2; Brandis For. Fl. 328; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 114; Targ. 
Tozz Rap. 28, 29, t. 3; Wall. Cat. 1624; Bot. Mag. 1799, 2032 ; Bot. Reg. t. 
74 (fl. double). N. odoratum, Lamk. Encycl. ii. 456. N. latifolium and N. 
indicum, Mill l. c. ed. 8.—Rheede Hort. Mal. ix. t. 1, 2. 
Western HrwArAYA; from Nipal westwards, ascending to 6500 ft. in Murree.— 
CENTRAL Inpra, Scinp.—Distrris, Affghanistan, Japan. 
A large erect stout shrub. Leaves 4—6 in., linear-lanceolate, thickly coriaceous, 
acuminate, midrib very stout; nerves numerous, slender, horizontal; petiole very 
short. Flowers 14 in. diam., sweet-scented, rose white or yellow. Sepals subulate- 
lanceolate. Follicles 6-9 in.—Very similar to and perhaps only a variety of the com- 
mon N. Oleander of the Mediterranean region, which extends eastwards to Persia. 
2, STROPHANTHUS, DC. 
Small trees or shrubs, often climbing. Leaves opposite. Flowers usually 
large, in terminal cymes. Calyx 5-partite, glandular within. Corolla funnel- 
shaped, tube short, throat large, campanulate, with 10 free or connate scales; 
lobes overlapping to the right, produced into long or short tails, rarely ovate acute. 
Stamens at the top of the tube, included, filaments short; anthers sagittate, 
tips filiform, conniving around and adhering to the stigma, cells spurred at the 
base. Disc 0. Carpels 2, distinct, many-ovuled, glabrous; style filiform, 
rugose, with cellular papillze, tip dilated, stigma columnar or conical, simple or 
9-fid.  Follicles oblong or elongate, hard, spreading (parallel in S. Jackianus). 
Seeds compressed, fusiform, narrowed into a feathery tail, or with a sessile coma, 
base with a deciduous tuft of hairs.—DrsrRIB. Species about 18, tropical 
Asiatic and African, and 1 S. African. 
* Lobes of the corolla exceeding the throat in length. 
1. S. dichotomus, DC. in Bull. Soc, Phil. iii. 123; glabrous, leaves 
elliptic-oblong or obovate obtuse acute or apiculate, cymes few-fld., tails of 
corolla-lobes 5-7 in. A. DC. Prodr. viii. 417; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 441. 
S. scandens, Roem. & Sch. Syst. iv. 412. L. longicaudatus and Griffithii, Wight 
Te. t. 1299, 1300; Kurz For. Fl. ii, 191. S. pentaphyllus, Griff. Notul. iv. 78. 
S. caudatus, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 257. S. Horsfieldianus, Miquel 
Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 442. Echites caudata, Burm. Fl. Ind. 68,t. 20. Nerium cau- 
datum, Lamk. Dict. N. scandens, Lour. FI. Coch. i. 143 (ex A. DC.). 
TrxaAssERIM (Kurz). Maracca; Griffith, Maingay. SiwGAPORE and PENANG 
(drawings).—Distris, Java. 
An erect shrub. Branches stout; bark dark, dotted with lenticels. Leaves 3-53 
by 2-3 in., rather coriaceous, glossy above; nerves 6-8 pairs, spreading, arching and 
joining far within the margin; petiole } in. Cymes much shorter than the leaves, 
dichotomous. Sepals subulate from an ovate base. Corolla-tube and throat 1-1 in. 
long, whitish, tails purple ; scales cleft to the base. Anther-tips very long and slender. 
Follicles not seen (as taken from a drawing, very large, divergent, 8 by 2 in., broadest 
at the very base where united, tapering to a broad rounded point, terete smooth green). 
2. S. Wallichii, 4. DC. Prodr. viii. 418; glabrous, leaves elliptic 
oblong or obovate acuminate cuspidate or obtuse, cymes many-fld., tails of coro 
