CI. 8.] APOCINEiE. 109 



rous, either naked or feathery, imbricated, in many- 

 rows, over one side of a lateral, unconnected, flat 

 Receptacle, lying along the inside of the Follicle, 

 near it's suture. Embryo flat, in a thin fleshy Al- 

 bumen. Plants herbaceous, shrubby, or arboreous, 

 generally milky. Leaves opposite or alternate, with 

 fringed axillary glands, not always evident." 



Sect. 1. Germens 2. Follicles 2. Seeds not fea- 

 thery. Tinea, fig. 186, Matelea, Aubl., Ochrosia 

 Juss., Tabernctmontana, Cameraria and Plumieria. 



Sect. 2. Germ, and Follic. 2. Seeds feathery. Ne~ 

 lium, Echites, Ceropegia, Pergularia, fig. 185, Sta- 

 pelia, Periploca, Apocynum, Cynanchum and Ascle- 

 pias. 



Sect. 3. Germen simple. Fruit pulpy, rarely cap- 

 sular. Willughbeja Schreb. Gen. 162, (comprising 

 Ambelania and Pacouria of Aubl.) Alamanda, Me- 

 iodinus, Gynopogon, Ramvolfia, Ophioxylon, Cerbera 

 and Carissa. 



Sect. 4. Genera akin to Apocinece, not milky. 

 Strychnos, including Ignatia of Linn., Theophrasta, 

 Anasser Juss., Fagrtea Thunb. and Gelsemium Juss. 

 This Order, very natural, except the last Section, 

 is what Linnaeus termed Contorts, from the frequent 

 obliquity, or flexure, of the Corolla. Mr. Brown has 

 most happily divided it, see Tr. of the Wern. Soc. 

 v. 1. 12, and Prodr.N. Holl. v. 1.465, separating from 

 the rest such as have the Pollen of each Anther co- 

 alescing into two distinct, stalked masses, like the 



