Bat'ssea.] Apocynacecs. 139 



ovate, acute, pubescent; cal. glabrous, tube broad-based, segm. 

 acute, slightly ciliate; cor.-tube about i in., glabrous in throat, 

 lobes i|-2 in,, often undulated at margin; fil. hairy, anth. 

 narrow, very acute; follicles about 12 in., linear, very pointed, 

 smooth ; seed f in., beaked, coma 2 in., copious. 



Moist low country to 2000 ft., rather rare. Kandy ; Kaduganawa ; 

 Kalutara. Fl. April, May; white tinged with yellow. 

 Also in India and Malaya. 

 The great white flowers are very conspicuous. 



16. AGANOSMA, G. Don. 



Climbing shrub, 1. opp., fl. moderate-sized, in rounded ter- 

 minal cymes ; cal. cut to base into 5 distinct sep., with 5 oblong 

 scales within ; cor.-tube narrow at base, inflated above, lobes 5, 

 narrow, slightly overlapping to right; stam. 5, inserted near 

 base of cor.-tube, anth. connivent over and adnate to stigma, 

 very acute, included ; disk of 5 lobes round the ov. ; carp, 

 distinct, stigma truncate; follicles distinct, divaricate, linear, 

 at first tomentose ; seeds oblong-oval, compressed, scarcely 

 beaked, with a long coma, endosperm scanty. — Sp. 5 ; all in 

 FL B. Ind. 



A. cymosa, G. Z>^;z, Gen. Hist. iv. ']'] (1838). 

 A. eleguns, G. Don, Thw. Enum. 194. C. P. 1850. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 665. Wight, Ic. t. 1304. 



A large, woody, much-branched climber, twigs adpressed- 

 pubescent; 1. 2|-4| in., oval or lanceolate-oval, acute at base, 

 very acute at apex, glabrous, venation reticulate, petiole 

 \-\ in. ; fl. on short tomentose ped., cymes rather dense, buds 

 pointed; sep. f in., linear-lanceolate, very acute, tomentose on 

 both sides; cor.-tube with lines of hair behind stam. within, 

 lobes about as long as sep., lanceolate, very acute, tomentose 

 outside ; anth. rigid, sagittate at base ; ov. hairy ; follicles 

 6-9 in., linear, cylindrical, pointed, becoming nearly glabrous; 

 seeds f in., glabrous, black, coma i^ in. 



Low country, rather rare. Pasdun Korale ; Haragama. Fl. May, 

 June ; yellowish-white. 



Also in Peninsular India and Sylhet. 



This is var. 4, elega7is, of the Fl. B. Ind., of a variable species. 



17. BAISSEA, ^. Z^C 



Diffuse glabrous shrub, 1. opp., fl. very small, in paniculate 

 apparently axillary cymes ; cal. very small, deeply 5 -cleft, 



