[ MIN Se E H ee wv EA vd KK Ku En teg ee ae ere 
SStrophanthus.] xciv. APocyNACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 657 
only Wallieh's very mutilated flowers, shrivelled leaves, dehisced pods and seeds, 
which latter entirely resemble those of a Wrightia. 
26. APOCYNUM, Linn. 
Erect herbs or undershrubs. Leaves opposite. Cymes terminal and lateral; 
flowers small. Calyx 5-fid, eglandular within; lobes acute. Corolla campanu- 
late, 5-fid, with 5 processes between the stamens; lobes overlapping to the 
right. Stamens near the base of the corolla, included ; anthers sagittate, acute, 
‘conniving and adnate to the stigma, cells with basal spurs, Disc fleshy, 5-lobed. 
Carpels 2, distinct, many-ovuled, half sunk in the disc, to which they are adnate 
by the back ; style short or 0, stigma subglobose, tip 2-lobed. Follicles slender. 
Seeds small, oblong, with a terminal caducous coma, albumen scanty, cotyle- 
‘dons flat.—DrsrRrs. Species b, of the north temp. zone. 
A. venetum, Linn.; A. DC. Prodr. viii, 400; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv, 48. 
Western TrsET; Shayuk valley, alt. 8000 ft. (without flower or fruit), Thomson. 
—Disrris. N. Asia, from the Caucasus to China, Persia, Asia Minor, Greece, Dalmatia. 
Stem and branches slender, smooth, cylindric. Leaves 2-3 by 4-4 in., linear- 
“oblong or oblong-lanceolate, apiculate, entire or crenulate; nerves very slender; 
petiole very short. Cymes small, erect, subcorymbose; bracts subulate. Flowers 
erect, A in. diam., purplish, puberulous. Carpels with pubescent tips. Follicles 4 in. 
—Though I have seen neither flower nor fruit, I cannot doubt this being the common 
A, venetum, 
27. URCEO LA, Rob, 
Climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite, nerves distant, Flowers small, in dense 
‘corymbosely panicled cymes. Calyx 5-partite, eglandular within, Corolla 
urceolate or subglobose, throat naked; lobes short, valvate. Stamens at the 
base of the corolla; anthers sagittate, conniving over and adhering to the stigma, 
cells spurred at the base. Disc cupular or annular, truncate or 5-lobed. Carpels 
2, distinct, longer than the disc, truncate, hirsute, many-ovuled ; style short, 
top obconie ; stigma subannulate, conoid. ollicles spreading, thick and acumi- 
nate, or elongate and contracted or not between the seeds, Seeds oblong or 
linear, compressed, villous, tip contracted bearded with long persistent brown 
hairs, and crowned with a long white deciduous coma, albumen scanty ; cotyle- 
dons thin, radicle short,—DrsrRrs. Species 7 or 8, Malayan, 
Secr. I. Urceola proper.  PFollicles straight, even, horizontally diver- 
gent. Calyx longer than the corolla, 2 interior segments much smaller than 
the others. 
1. U. elastica, Roxb. in As. Res. v. 107, with figure (excl. fruit); branches 
robust, leaves beneath and inflorescence finely rusty pubescent, leaves elliptic 
abruptly acuminate thickly coriaceous, nerves 10-12 pairs very strong, cymes 
very dense-fld., bracts subulate, calyx-segments lanceolate recurved, follicles 
cylindric. A. DC. Prodr. 358 ; Wight Ic. t. 473 (excl. figures and descriptions 
of fruit). 'Taberneemontana elastica, Spreng. Syst. Veg.1. 639. ? Vahea gummi- 
fera, Poir. Dict. Suppl. v. 409. 
Maracca and Penance; Roxburgh, Wallich, Griffith, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1058, 
1091),.—Distris. Sumatra. 
A stout climber. Leaves 4-6 by 2-3 in., red-brown when dry, softly pubescent 
beneath, glabrous above with impressed nearly horizontal nerves; petiole }-% in. 
Cymes numerous, panicled at the ends of the branches, long-peduncled ; flowers in 
compound corymbs, very densely packed. Calyx à in. long, exceeding the ovoid 
pubescent corolla, which is glabrous within except a tuft of reflexed hairs between 
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