Urceola. | XCIV. APOCYNACER. (J. D. Hooker.) 659° 
Branches and leaves quite glabrous. Leaves 4-6 by 2-2} in., acute at both ends or 
obtuse at the base, shining above; nerves red, slightly arched. Flowers “ minute, - 
white; corymbs apparently short; long-peduncled, glabrous in the axils of the upper 
leaves, or terminal" (Kurz). Follicles 5 by 1 in., quite straight, pointed, narrowed 
into a stout stalk 3 in. long, thickly coriaceous when dry and hard. Seeds elliptic- 
lanceolate, villous, } in. long; coma white, four times as long.— The leaves a good 
deal resemble those of U. brachysepala, but are longer, and the nerves are more 
numerous. Fruit eatable. 
Secr. II. Dittormos. Follicies flexuous, distantly torulose. Calyx 
shorter than the corolla; segments erect, subequal. 
6. U. torulosa, Hook. f.; glabrous except the inflorescence, leaves 
oblong or oblong-lanceolate acuminate, nerves 6-10 pairs slender, cymes pubes- 
cent, follicles very slender swollen over the remote seeds, 
Maracca; Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1080, 1086). 
Branches slender, smooth (in flower). Leaves 4-7 by 11-2 in., red-brown when 
dry, thinly coriaceous. Cymes long-peduncled; bracts lanceolate ; flowers not quite 
mature, in. long. Calyx-segments oblong-lanceolate. Corolla as in the preceding 
section. Anthers subacute. Ovary bairy ; style obconie, with a conoid stigma of the 
same length.  Follicles 2-2} ft. long, thinly coriaceous, smooth, terete, swellings $ in. 
long, often 1 in. apart, long ellipsoid. Seeds elliptic-lanceolate, villous, top bearded 
with persistent hairs ; coma twice as long.—The follicles resemble those of Parameria 
glandulifera. 
7. U. brachysepala, Hook. f.; glabrous except the puberulous flowers, 
leaves elliptic obtusely acuminate, nerves 6-8 pairs strong, cymes long-peduncled, 
peduncles and branches compressed, bracts subulate, sepals much shorter than 
the subglobose shortly 5-lobed corolla. 
Maracca ; Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1079, 1080). 
Branches rather stout; bark red-brown. Leaves 4-5 by 13-21 in., firmly coria- 
ceous, red-brown when dry, nervules distinct on both surfaces.  PedunclLs 6.8 in., 
glabrous, red when dry, branches jointed at the nodes; branches and pedicels slender, 
glabrous; flowers very small, 4-3 in. long. Calyx-segments erect, ovate. Corolla 
pubescent, inflated ; lobes obtuse, glabrous within, except a tuft of hairs between the 
stamens. Anthers subacute. Ovary twice as long as the dise, cylindric, hirsute ; 
style cupular, stigma large obpyriform. Follicles not seen. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 
Urcrora?; branches and leaves glabrous; bark black when dry; leaves 2-24 by 
3-1} in, elliptic- or ovate-lanceolate obtusely acuminate, narrowed into the petiole, 
firmly coriaceous, pale brown shining above, nerves 3—4 pairs very slender ascending, 
follicles horizontal 6-8 by } in. slightly curved cylindric from the base, narrowed at 
the apex, hard; seeds } in., very slender narrowed into a filiform process longer than 
the body, on which the fine pale brown hairs of the coma are placed. Probably an 
undescribed genus.—Maracca; Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1069). ` 
28. PARAMERIA, Benth. 
Evergreen glabrous climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite, rarely 3-nately 
whorled. Flowers small, in broad lax terminal panicles. Calyx small, 5-fid or 
-partite, glandular within. Corolla sub-campanulate, throat broad naked, lobes 
obliquely obovate or obcuneate, wrinkled, overlapping to the left. Stamens at 
the base of the corolla, filaments short; anthers sagittate, acute or apiculate, 
conniving over and adhering to the stigma, cells spurred at the base. Dise of 
5 connate scales. Carpels 2, distinct, longer than the dise, many-ovuled ; style 
short, top obconoid, stigma conoid.  Follicles long, slender, distantly torulose. 
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