SUPRA ee ae ct a a s Veit: 2d WE TEE EA 
Rhynchodia.} ^ xciv. apocynacem. (J. D. Hooker.) 667 
Calyx 5-partite or -fid, glandular within. Corolla salver-shaped, throat con- 
tracted, villous; lobes large, broad, obliquely obcuneate, overlapping to 
the right, twisted to the left. Stamens in the middle of the tube, filaments 
broad short; anthers sagittate, conniving round and adhering to the stigma, 
cells shortly spurred below. Dise annular, 5-fid. Carpels 2, distinct, glabrous, 
longer than the disc, many-ovuled ; style filiform, top clavate truncate, stigma 
columnar. Follicles elongate, narrow, compressed. Seeds ovate or oblong, 
compressed, beak slender, tipped by a deciduous coma. 
R. Wallichii, Benth. in Gen. Pi. ii. 720; glabrous, leaves elliptic ovate 
or oblong cuspidate or caudate-acuminate, cymes dichotomous loose, peduncles 
and pedicels slender. Rhynchospermum Wallichii and R. ellipticum, A. DC. 
Prodr. viii. 431.  Echites rhynchosperma, Wall. PI. As. Rar. i. 43, t. 49; Cat. 
1665. E. elliptica, Wall. Cat. 1666. Echites verticalis, Herb. Ham. Cerco- 
coma Wallichii, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 445; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 187. 
Smxm HIMALAYA, alt. 2500 ft.; Zreutler. Bunnert: De Silva. Assam; Masters. 
CACHAR; Keenan. MARTABAN, TENassERIM and Ava; Wallich, Kurz. 
Branches distantly tubereled. Leaves 5-9 by 2-4 in., base acute, rounded or 
rarely cordate; petiole slender, 1 in. Cymes 2—4 in. diam. ; flowers white, fragrant ; 
‘peduncle 1-3 in.  Ca/yz-lobes ovate-lanceolate, half as long as the corolla-tube. 
Corolla glabrous, except round the mouth; tube } in. 5-angled; limb 1 in. diam. ; 
lobes narrowly obovate.  Fol/icles 12-18 by j-2 in., smooth. Seeds 1 in., beak as 
long as the body, hairs rather longer, white.— This genus might well form a section of 
Trachelospermum. 
36. TRACHELOSPERMUM, Lemaire. 
Climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite, nerves distant. Flowers white or pur- 
plish, in lax terminal or pseudo-axillary cymes. Calyx small, 5-partite, 
glandular or scaly within. Corolla salver-shaped, mouth constricted ; lobes 
oblique, overlapping to the right, twisted to the left. Stamens above the 
middle of the Se tips included or exserted, filaments short, broad ; anthers 
conniving over and adhering to the stigma, cells spurred at the base. Dise 
annular or of oblong glands. Carpels 2, distinct, many-ovuled ; style short, top 
cupular, stigma columnar. Follicles elongate, slender, incurved, terete. Seeds 
linear, not beaked, coma long, albumen copious ; cotyledons linear, flat, radicle 
short.—DIsTRIB. Species 8, East Asiatic and Malayan. 
* Cymes in the upper axils, long-peduncled. Corolla-tube slender, much longer 
than the calyx. 
l. T. fragrans, Hook. f.; leaves elliptic-lanceolate obtusely acuminate, 
cymes loosely panicled, peduncles and pedicels slender, sepals ovate or lanceolate, 
corolla-lobes at base and mouth uin. anthers included. Ichnocarpus 
fragrans, Wall. Cat. 1675; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 435; Brand. For. Fl. 327. I. 
?inflata, Herb. Ham. in Wail. l.c. Blaberopus lucidus, A. DC. l.c. 411. 
Alstonia lucida, Don Prodr. 231. 
TEMPERATE and SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA ; from Kumaon, ascending to 5,700 ft. 
to Bhotan, exclusive of Sikkim. Assam; Muku hills, Simonds. Cacuar; Keenan. 
A tall climber, shoots and petioles sometimes pubescent. Leaves 3-5 by 1-1} in. ; 
petiole 2-3 in.  JPeduncles 1-3 in., very slender, stout, angular, trichotomously 
branched. Sepals 3-4 the length of the corolla-tube. Corolla white, tube slender, 
with the throat 4-4 in. ; lobes obcuneate, obliquely truncate. Disc-glands quadrate. 
Ovary glabrous, acute.  Follicles 4-9 by } in., incurved and converging, cylindric, 
acuminate, narrowed at the base; pericarp thinly coriaceous, smooth, pale. Seeds 
