666 XCIV, APOCYNACER. (J. D. Hooker.) | Epigynum, 
stigma thick. Follicles distinct, long, linear, terete. Seeds elongated, com- 
ressed (crowned with a wing or pencil of hairs ?).—Drsrrrp, Species 4 or 5, 
alayan Peninsula and Borneo, 
l. E. Griffithianum, Wight Ic. t. 1308 ; leaves elliptic acute at both 
ends glabrous, cymes rusty-pubescent, flowers À in. long, corolla pubescent, 
lobes in bud slightly twisted. Kurz For. FL ii. 184, Legouixia amabilis, 
Muell. Argan. in Van Heurck Pl, Nov. 140. 
Mzmavr; Griffith, Kure. 
Branches slender, puberulous towards the tips. Leaves 2-3 by 3-11 in., mem- 
branous, brown when dry, narrowed into the short petiole. Cymes branched from the 
base or peduncled, 1-1} in. diam.; branches 3 in.; flowers crowded; pedicels very 
short. Calyx $ the length of the narrow corolla-tube, Corolla-limb $ in. diam, ; 
lobes obovate, glabrous within, throat and tube hairy within. Fruit not seen. 
2. E. Maingayi, Hook. f.; leaves elliptic subacute and cymes softly 
tomentose beneath, flowers 1 in. long, corolla tomentose, lobes in bud nearly 
straight. 
Matacca ; Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1088). 
Branches slender, young tomentose. Leaves 34-44 by 4-3 in. minutely puberu- 
lous above, with yellowish tomentum beneath; petiole + in.; tomentose. Cymes 
shortly peduncled ; flowers very shortly pedicelled, corymbose. Calyx i the length 
of the corolla-tube. Corolla-lobes rounded, tomentose on one half of the back; tube 
and throat pubescent within and without. Follicles 6-8 by 4-3 in., slender, cylindric, 
flexuous, tomentose, Seeds not ripe. 
3. 1E. levigatum, Hook. f.; leaves elliptic-lanceolate acuminate quite 
glabrous, flowers 4 in. long, corolla glabrous, ep strongly twisted in bud. 
Echites levigata, Wall. Cat. 1669. : 
Sumer ; at Pundua ? ( Wallich). 
Perfectly glabrous throughout; branches slender, dark brown, Leaves 4-5 by 1} 
in. thinly coriaceous, polished above; petiole A in. Flowers in peduneled axillary 
trichotomous panicled-cymes, rather crowded towards the ends of the long horizontal 
branches; bracts ovate. Calya-lobes ovate- lanceolate, with a small glandular tooth in 
the sinus between each lobe. Corolla-tube d in., twice as long asthe calyx ; lobes linear- 
oblong, twice as long as the tube. Carpels sunk in the cupular ó-lobed dise, and 
"Attached to it by their backs; style very short, stigma large. Fruit not seen.—A 
fruiting specimen of what may be this species was collected in Cachar by Keenan ; the 
follicles are 3-4 in. by } in., horizontal, terete, gradually narrowed from the base to 
the acute point, exactly as in Anodendron, but the seeds are slender and not beaked. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES, 
? E. parvirtorum, Hook. f.; quite glabrous, leaves 5-6 by 13-2 in., elliptic-lan- 
~ceolate, acuminate at both ends, nerves 5-6 pairs very oblique, petiole } in., flowers in 
lax brachiate axillary and terminal cymes, peduncle branches and pedicels slender, 
-calyx very small, corolla pale yellow, tube short, limb 3 in. diam., lobes faleately lan- 
ceolate acuminate, stamens towards the base of the tube, ovary sunk in the -lobed 
‘disc, style very short, top cup-shaped, stigma conical. Echites parviflora, Roxb. Fl. 
Ind. ii. 20. 
. Norruern Crrcars; Roxburgh. 
I have described this from Roxburgh’s drawings; it appears closely allied to 
E.? levigatum. 
36, RHYNCHODIA, Benth. 
A lofty climbing evergreen shrub. Leaves opposite, broad, membranous, 
‘nerves distant. Flowers in lax broad axillary or subterminal panicled cymes. 
