130 LXXXII. APOC'TNACE.E, 



West Indies) the Madagascar PeriwinHi'. It has obovate leaves and 

 rosy or white flowers. It is propagated by seed and spreads freely 

 when introduced into a garden. K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. 

 V. 4, part 2, p. 157, fig. 57, A-D ; Stapf, in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 4, 

 p. 118. Vinca rosea, Linn. Syst. ed. 10 (1759) p. 944; Hook. f. Fl. 

 B. I. V. 3, p. 640; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1893) p. 165 ; 

 Gard. in Ind. ed. 5, p. 377 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 4, p. 244. 

 Catharanthus roseus, G. Don, Gen. Syst. v. 4 (1837) p. 95 ; Grab. Cat. 

 p. 115; Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 53. — Flowers more or less throughout 

 the year. Yern'. Saddj^huli. 



5. RHAZYA, Decaisne. 



Erect glabrous shrubs or undershrubs. Leaves alternate, thick ; 

 nerves obscure. Flowers at the ends of the branches, densely cymose, 

 corymbose or subthyrsoid. Calyx short, 5-partite, without glands 

 inside ; segments acuminate. Corolla hypocrateriform ; tube cyliudrie, 

 slightly dilated above the stamens, with reflexed hairs beneath the 

 stamens within, throat constricted, hairy inside ; lobes 5, short, broad, 

 overlapping to the left. Stamens above the middle of the tube, included; 

 anthers lanceolate, the cells rounded at the base. Disk shortly annular 

 or obscure. Carpels of the ovary 2, distinct ; ovules many in each 

 carpel, 2-seriate ; style filiform ; stigma broadly thickened, sometimes 

 appendiculate with a reflexed membrane, with a very short 2-globose 

 apiculus. Follicles 2, erect, narrowly cylindric. Seeds many, subterete 

 or angled and compressed, truncate or winged at both ends ; albumen 

 fleshy; cotyledons oblong, thick; radicle superior. — Disteib. Western 

 Asia and Arabia ; species 2. 



1. Rhazya stricta, Decaisne, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, v. 4 (1835) 

 p. 81. A small glabrous leafy shrub reaching 3 ft. high. Leaves 

 yellowish when dried, sessile, numerous, coriaceous, alternate, 3-4^ by 

 |-| in., linear-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, acute, glabrous, base 

 tapering; nerves (except the midrib) obscure. Flowers white, slightly 

 odorous, in terminal and axillary corymbose cymes ; pedicels short, 

 stout ; bracts lanceolate, acute, pubescent, ciliate. Calyx glabrous ; 

 segments -^-^ in. long, lanceolate, acute. Corolla g-f in. long; tube 

 inflated in the upper half, with hairs in the throat and densely silky 

 hairy below the stamens ; lobes ^^ in. long, linear-oblong, apiculate. 

 Ovary glabrous, of 2 distinct carpels ; style slender ; stigma shortly 

 apiculate, the apiculus 2-Iobed. Follicles erect, 2-3 by | in., pai-allel, 

 cylindric, pointed, straight or slightly curved near the top, pale- 

 brown, striately nerved, glabrous. Seeds | in. long, oblong, angular, 

 compressed, shortly winged at the ends and sometimes slightly on the 

 angles ; testa strongly rugose, w ith elevated ridges. Fl. B. I. v. 3, 

 p. 640 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 4, p. 46 ; Aitch. Pb. & Sind PI. p. 88 ; Talb. 

 Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 224 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) 

 p. 165 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 1, p. 443. — Flowers : Dec. 

 Vebn. Sevar; Sihar ; Ishvarg. 



In the Bombay Presidenoj confined to Sind. Sind : hills of Sind, Dalzell, 83 I, 

 Stocks, .')7<) ! ; Boogta hills, I'icary'.-^ Sell wan, Cooke I ; Sind frontier, Cooke'. — 

 DiSTRiB. India (Piinjab) ; Beliichistan, Afghanistan, Arabia. 



The dried leaves are sold in the bazaars throughout Sind, and their infusion is said 

 to be a good and peculiar bitter tonic. The dried fruit is used througliout Beluchistan 

 for coagulating milk in the manufacture of cheese. See Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c. 



