668 XCIV. APOCYNACE®. (J. D. Hooker.) [Trachelospermum. 
ł in. long, slender, compressed, obtuse at both ends, pale, smooth, coma as long, 
white. 
2. T. gracilipes, Hook. f. ; glabrous, leaves elliptic acute, cymes loosely 
panicled, peduncle and pedicels capillary, calyx-segments ovate or lanceolate,. 
corolla-lobes and throat glabrous, anther-tips exserted. 
Kuasta and JvxTRA Mrs. ; Lobb. Assam; Gowahatty, Simons. 
Very similar to 7. fragrans, but differing in the form of the leaf point, in the 
more slender cymes, and notably in the glabrous corolla and exserted anther-tips. 
** Cymes short-peduncled, in numerous axils. — Corolla-tube short. 
3. T. axillare, Hook. f.; quite glabrous, leaves oblanceolate obovate or 
elliptic-oblong abruptly caudate-acuminate, cymes very shortly peduncled, sepals 
rounded, shorter than the glabrous corolla. Rhynchospermum 5, Herb. Ind.. 
Or. Hook. f. & T. 
Srxxim Hraraya; alt. 4-6000 ft., J. D. H. 
A stout arboreous climber. Leaves 3-6 by 1-1} in., rather coriaceous, tip 4 in. 
long. Cymes 1 in. diam.; peduncle } in., pedicels rather longer, stout. Sepals 
uberulous, half the length of the corolla-tube. Corolla dull purple; tube angular, 
CH long; lobes linear-oblong, nearly straight, obtuse; mouth and throat glabrous. 
Stamens included. Glands glabrous. Ovary pubescent; style very short, stout. 
Follicles 6-8 by } in., curved, cylindric, tomentose. Seeds slender, 3 in. long; coma 
2 in., copious, pale brown.—Buds more obtuse and lobes less twisted to the left 
than in the typical species, 
37. ANODENDRON, 4. DC. 
Climbing glabrous shrubs. Leaves opposite, nerves distant arched. Flowers 
in axillary or axillary and terminal slender panicled wide spreading cymes. 
Calyx 5-cleft ; segments obtuse, eglandular within. Corolla salver-shaped,. 
mouth contracted ; lobes narrow, overlapping to the right, twisted to the left. 
Stamens below the middle of the tube ; anthers sagittate, conniving round and 
adherent to the stigma, cells shortly spurred at the base. Dise cupular. 
Carpels 2, distinct, sunk in the disc, and attached to it by their backs at the base, 
many-ovuled ; style very short, top cupular, stigma thick conie. Follicles diverg- 
ing, acuminate, hard. Seeds ovoid or oblong, compressed, beaked, tipped with 
a long coma.—Disrrin. Species 7, Asiatic and Malayan, 
l. A. paniculatum, 4. DC. Prodr. viii. 444; quite glabrous, leaves 
large elliptic or oblong obtusely cuspidate thinly coriaceous, nerves 19-15 pairs, 
calyx-lobes obtuse. Dalz. § Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 147 ; Thwaites Enum. 194; Kurz 
For. Fl. ii. 188; Wight Ie. t. 1309, fruit and seeds only. Echites paniculata, 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 17; Wight Ic. t. 390. E. coriacea, Wall. Cat. 1586. E. 
manubriata and polyantha, Wall. Cat. 1663, 1664. Gymnema nepalense, ? 
Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 120 (ex Dalz. & Gibs.).—Rheede Hort. Mal. ix. t. 8 
From Bu nr to Marrapan. Deccan Peninsuta; on the Western Ghats from. 
the Concan southwards. CEYLON; common up to 2000 ft.—Disrrin. Java, Timor, 
Philippine Islds, 
An immense climber. Leaves 4-8 by 11-3 in.; petiole } in. Cymes 2-10 in. 
long and broad, repeatedly 3-chotomously branched; branches brachiate, filiform ; 
flowers 3-nate; pedicels short; bracts ovate. Calya-lobes minute. Corolla 4 in. long, 
yellowish white, lobes twice as long as the tube, narrow, faleate; obtuse, throat 
villous. Stigma subsessile.  Follicles 5-6 in., straight, narrowed from a base i in. 
diam. to the obtuse point, terete, woody. Seeds few, 1} in. long, flat; beak ong 
slender ; coma white, 2 in. long. 
