670 XCIV, APOCYNACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [Jehnocarpus.. 
Western Himaraya; Sirmore to Nepal, alt. 1-2000 ft. Upper Gancetic PLAIN d 
from Delhi to BENGAL, Assam, Sirugr, Currracone, Birma, the Deccan PeNINSULA and 
Cryton,—Disrris, Java, Australia. 
An extensive climber. Leaves very variable, 2-3 by $-1} in.; petiole } in. 
s 1-3 in., axillary and in terminal panicles, rusty-pubescent; branches short, 
trichotomously divided or 3-flowered ; pedicels longer or shorter than the corolla. 
Calya-lobes ovate, obtuse or subacute, eglandular. Corolla about 2 in. diam., purplish, 
twice as long as the calyx; lobes twice as long as the tube, faleate, acuminate, mouth 
and margins sparingly bearded. Dise-glands 5, erect, slender, capitate, much longer 
than the hairy ovary. Style very short. Follicles 3-6 by 4 in., very slender, cylin- 
dric, curved, acute, “sometimes moniliform as in Eedysanthera,” Kurz, divergent at. 
an acute angle; pericarp thinly coriaceous. Seeds Y in., very slender, not beaked; 
coma as long, scanty, white.— /. radicans, Wall., is the young state of the plant. 
Van. parvifolia ; leaves 1-14 by } in. oblong or linear-oblong, cymes shorter.— 
Coimbatore, Wight, &c. 
2. I. ovatifolius, 4. DC. Prodr. viii. 435; glabrous or branches and 
leaves beneath more or less tomentose, leaves orbicular elliptic-oblong or ovate 
obtuse acute or cuspidate, peduncle and pedicels pubescent, corolla-tube pubes- 
cent, mouth puberulous. T. affinis, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T. Echites affinis, 
Roem. § Sch. I. latifolia, Herb. Ham. in Wall. Cat. 1659. Springia indica, 
Muell. § Van Heurck in Plant. Nov. Van Heurck, 143. 
Sinner and Kuasta Mrs: alt. 1—4000 ft. Maracca; Griffith, Maingay (Kew 
Distrib. 1075, 1103).—Disrris, Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes, Philippine Islds, 
Very closely allied to Z. frutescens, and perhaps a variety of that plant, but besides 
the characters indicated the leaves are much larger and broader, and the dise-glands 
are not capitate.—The flowers occur in a monstrous state (through insect-puncture), 
the corolla being enlarged below into a globose form 3 in. diam., crowned with a rigid 
erect tubular beak. This state occurs in Wallich’s Herbarium, under No. 2015, from 
Tavoy (which number should apply to a Dendrobium), and it is Maingay's 1103 (Kew 
Distrib.) from Malacca. 
3. I. pubiflorus, Mook. f.; glabrous, with rusty-tomentose cymes, leaves 
elliptic obtusely acuminate, cymes very shortly peduncled dense-flowered, calyx- 
segments oblong equalling the glabrous corolla-tube, corolla-throat pubescent, 
lobes linear-oblong, base gibbous. 
Kaasta Mrs.; Griffith (a solitary specimen). 
Branch stout glabrous, bark dark brown. Leaves 3 by 14 in., rather coriaceous ; 
petiole fin. Cymes j-1 in. long and broad, branched from near the base, peduncle 
pedicels and bracts densely tomentose ` flowers } in. long, corolla as broad. Calyx 
cleft to the base into linear-oblong segments. Corolla-tube short ; lobes obliquely 
ovate, obtuse, Anthers acuminate. Ovary villous above, glabrous below. 
39. MICROCHITES, Miquel. 
Climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite, nerves distant. Flowers very small, in 
axillary and terminal lax thyrsoid or brachiate panicled cymes. Calyx small, 
5-fid or -partite, glandular within, segments obtuse. Corolla campanulate or 
salver-shaped, tube short ; lobes falcate, overlapping to the right, very oblique, 
upper half deflexed in bud. Stamens near the bottom of the tube, filaments 
short; anthers sagittate, conniving around and adhering to the stigma, cells 
spurred at the base. Dise annular or cupular, entire or lobed. Carpels 2, 
longer than the disc, distinct, many-ovuled, hirsute ; style short, top turbinate 
or globose, stigma clavate,  Follicles spreading or recurved, hard, subterete, 
Seeds oblong, compressed, not beaked; coma terminal, caducous.—DrsTRIT. 
Species 4, Malayan. 
