310 LXXV. APOCYNE.^.. [Oclu'om. 



l4 At 



Leaves mostly in whorls of 8 or 4, obovate-oLloug and oLiuse. Drupes 



acuminate 1- 0, eUiptica, 



Leaves mostly opposite, oblong-laaceolate and acumiuale. Drupes obtuse . 2. 0. Mooreu 



1. O. elliptica, Lahill Serf. Aastr. Ceded. 25. t. 30. A tree with a 

 milky juice, qiiite glabrous. Leaves in whorls of 3 or 4, rarely liere and 

 there opposite, from obovate-obloug to broadly elliptical, very obtuse or 

 shortly acuminate, contracted into a petiole^ coriaceous, the transverse veins 

 numerous and parallel, 3 to 6 in. long or even more, on luxuriant barren 

 shoots. Flowers sessile, in small dense corymbose cymes shortly pedunculate 

 in the uppermost axils. Calyx-segments ovate-oblong, obtuse, very con- 

 cave, thickened in the middle, about 1 hne long. Corolla-tube slender, 

 about 4 lines long, the lobes linear, about 3 lines. Anthers lanceolate, 

 acute. Hypogynous glands scarcely conspicuous. Drupes scarlet, acurai- 

 nate, 1 to 2 in.' long, eacli of the parallel portions of the endocarp about 4 to 

 B lines diameter, with a large cavity more or less filled with pith, the real 

 cell very much compressed. Seeds nearly orbicular, l)ordcrcd by a nanw 

 wing-like margin.— A, DC. Prod. viii. 357; 0. joarrZ/fora, Hensl. in Ann. 

 Nat. Hist, (not Ann. T?ot.) i. 345; A. DC. 1. c. ; Seem. Fl. Vit. 158; 

 BleeJceria Jcalocnrpa, Hassk, Eetzia, i. 40; Ladaria calocarpa, Hassk, in 

 Ned. Kruidk. Arch. iv. 9 ; F. MucU. Een. Burdek. Exped. 15 ; Fragm. nu 

 110. ^ 



Queensland. Kcppel Bav, Thozet ; Edgecombe Bay, Fltzalan, Dallachi/i ^'^'^^}^ 

 Island, Ihdiachy. Also in New Caledonia and in the Fiji and otber Islands of the \^^^^^'^. 

 The Society Island plant in the Hookerian herbarium, referred here by Seeniann, has very 

 narrow long leaves and mucli smaller flowers, and may be 0. mana^nie^ms, A- DC. ln»^ - * 

 matra plant, sent by Miquel as Ladaria calocarpa, Hassk., is totally diflurent, and seems w 

 be a Taberncsmontana. Labiilardiere's specimens agree quite with the Australian ones; or 

 in the figure, by a mistake of the artist, the seeds are placed in the pithy cavities ot tn 

 endocarp, instead of in the real cell. The species is nearly allied to the origiml O.- dor oo- 

 nica, but has a much smaller and more dense inflorescence, and longer acuminate fruits. 



2. O. Moorei, F, Muell A slender tree, quite glabrous. Leayes 

 inostly opposite, nan-ow-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, tapenUo 

 into a short petiole, the transverse veins not near so close and numerous as 

 in 0. eUij)tica and the texture thinner, 3 to 6 in. long. Flowers sessUe m 

 dichotomous cymes in the uppermost axils, the common peduncle longer tha 

 the petioles, but the whole inflorescence much shorter than the leaves. 

 Calyx-segments thick and 'concave, like those of 0. elliptica, but rM^^ 

 longer. Corolla-tuhc about 4 lines long, scarcely swollen round the autlier?. 

 lobes about 3 lines long. Anthers small, close under the throat. i)rup^ 

 scarlet, li to 2 in. long, obtuse and more flattened than in 0. eUiptr" 



Ladaria Moorei, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 110, vi, 118. 



ca» 



"Wale 



Richmond and Clarence rivers, C, Moore. 



7. TABERN^MONTANA, 



Calyx with a ring of small linear glands inside at the base. Corolla-tuJ« 

 yhndrica , slightly swollen round the anthers, the lobes spreading, contortea 



in the bud 



hypogyno 



, slightly swollen round the anthers, the lobes spreading, ^^^^^Z 

 i, the throat without scales. Anthers enclosed in the tube. J 

 us glands or scales. Ovary of 2 distinct carpels, united by 





