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6. ELLERTONIA, Wight. 



Glabrous climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite, or 3-4-nateIy whorled, 

 coriaceous. Mowers slender, in subtermiual cymes. Calyx small, 

 deeply 5-lid, without glauds inside. Corolla hypocrateriform ; tube 

 cylindric, dilated over the stamens, the throat constricted, naked ; lobes 

 5, narrow, overlapping to the left. Stamens in the middle of the tube, 

 included ; filaments very short ; anthers free, lanceolate, the cells 

 obtuse at the base. Disk 0. Carpels 2, distinct ; ovules numerous in 

 each carpel, 2-go - seriate ; style filiform ; stigma ovoid or oblong, with 

 a linear 2-fid apiculus. Pellicles 2, linear or linear-oblong, divaricate, 

 terete, coriaceous. Seeds 2-seriate, oblong, flattened, peltately attached, 

 winged at both ends ; albumen scanty ; cotyledons flat, foliaceous ; 

 radicle superior. — Disteib. Asia and Madagascar ; species about 4. 



The geaus was named by Wight after Dr. J. Ellerton Stocks. 



1. Ellertonia Rheedei, Wight, Icon. (1850) t. 1295. A climbing 

 glabrous shrub ; branches twining, slender, terete, often with lenticels. 

 Leaves 3-5 by 1-2 in., bluish-grey beneath when dry, coriaceous, 

 elliptic-oblong, acuminate, glabrous, base rounded or subacute ; main 

 nerves 10-12 pairs, slender; petioles | in. long. Flowers in 2-3- 

 chotomously branched cymes ; peduncles long, few or several together ; 

 bracts small, acute, persistent ; i>e<:licels short, slender. Calyx glabrous ; 

 segments -^ in. long, ovate, acute, with membranous margins. Corolla- 

 tube I in. long, very slender, inflated in the middle, without hairs in 

 the throat; lobes shorter than the tube, linear- lanceolate, acute. Stamens 

 in the middle of the tube ; filaments hairy ; anthers free, lanceolate, 

 apiculate. Carpels of the ovary distinct ; style slender ; stigma with a 

 deeply 2-fid apiculus. Foilicles 2-4 in. long, cylindric, divaricate, 

 slightly recurved, pointed at the apex. Seeds 1-^ in. long, with a 

 membranous wing at each end and an elliptic flattened nucleus. Fl. 

 B. I. V. 3, p. 641 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 146 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, 

 p. 224. — Flowers : Nov.-Jan. 



A rare tree. Konkan: Law], Sioc/cs^., Gibson I; Wari country, Dalzell ^~ Gibson. 

 Kanaea : evergreen forests near the Ainshi Ghat at 1000 ft. cLeTation, Talbot. 

 — DiSTRiB. India (W. Peninsula), apparently endemic. 



7. ALSTONIA, E. Br. 



Trees or erect shrubs. Leaves usually whorled. Flowers in sub- 

 terminal corymbose cymes. Calyx 5-lobed or 5-partite, without glands 

 inside. Corolla hypocrateriform; tube cylindric, the throat naked or 

 more or less closed by a ring of reflexed hairs ; lobes overlapping to the 

 right or left. Stamens near the top of the tube, included ; anthers 

 free, subacute. Disk annular or sometimes obscure, or sometimes 

 truncate or lobed. Carpels 2, distinct ; ovules numerous in each carpel, 

 00 - seriate ; style filiform ; stigma minute or shortly 2-fid. Follicles 2, 

 linear, slender. Seeds oblong or linear, flattened, peltately attached, 

 often ciliate ; albumen scanty ; cotyledons oblong, flat ; radicle superior. 

 ■ — DisTuiB. Tropical Asia, Malaya, Australia, Polynesia ; species 

 about 30. 



Follicles 12-24 in. long , 1. A- sckolaris. 



Follicles 3-5 in. long 2. A. venenata. 



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