Willughbeia.'] ApocyuacecB. 123 



Anth. adherent to top of stigma; fruit of 2 

 follicles {Echitidea). 

 Anth. exserted ; carp, usually connate. 



Fil. of stam. long, spirally twisted . .12. Parsonsia. 

 Fil. of stam. short, straight. 



Cor. without scales . . . .13- Vallaris. 

 Cor. with corona of scales . . .14. Wrightia. 

 Anth. included; carp, distinct. 



Cor. very large I5- Chonemorpha. 



Cor. small or medium-sized. 



Cal.-segm. as long as cor.-lobes . . 16. Aganosma. 

 Cal.-segm. very short. 



Cor.-lobes ovate, short . . .17. Baissea. 

 Cor.-lobes linear, long. 



Follicles stout, tapering . .18. Anodendron. 

 Follicles slender, cylindrical. . 19. Ichnocarpus. 



The whole of our 25 species are found in the low country, with th© 

 exception of Raiivolfia detisiflora. Willughbeia and Baissea also extend 

 upwards into the lower montane zone. Alyxta, Hunteria, Ochrosia, 

 TaberncEinontajia, Wrightia zeylafiica, Chonemorpha, and Anodendron 

 rhinosporum, are restricted to the wet, and Vinca^ Wrightia flavido-roseuy 

 and W. angiistifolia to the dry or intermediate regions. There are 9 

 endemic species. 



I. WZXiIiUGKBEZA, Roxb. (? Schreb.). 



Shrub, climbing by hooked leafless branchlets, fl. rather 

 small, in axillary paniculate cymes ; cal. small, segm. 5, 

 rounded; cor.-tube inflated, lobes 5, about as long as tube, 

 very slightly overlapping to left ; stam. 5, included in cor.- 

 tube, distinct, fil. short; ov. i -celled with numerous ovules on 

 2 parietal placentas, style short, stigma large, conical; fruit 

 very large, globose, fleshy, indehiscent, with numerous seeds 

 imbedded in pulp ; seed large, cotyledons thick, plane-convex, 

 without endosperm. — Sp. 10 or more; 9 in Fl. B. Ind. 



W. zeylanica, Thw. Eniim. 191 (i860). 



Chilocarpus scyla/zicus, Wight, Ic. iv. pt. 2, i. C. P. 1829. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 624. Wight, Ic. t. 1288. 



A large woody creeper, climbing by means of long whip- 

 like leafless branches with distant, short, reflexed branchlets 

 ending in 2 short hooks ; 1. 2^-3 in., oval, acute at base, more 

 or less acuminate, obtuse, entire, glabrous, rather thick, pink 

 when young, lat. veins numerous, close, parallel, nearly hori- 

 zontal, petiole f in.; fl. shortly stalked, cymes |-i| ip., 

 glabrous; cal.-segm. slightly ciliate; cor.-tube pilose within, 

 mouth naked, lobes linear, acute, slightly spreading ; ov. 

 globose, glabrous; fruit 4-5 in., nearly globose, smooth, pink, 



