13. Anodbndbon.] 74. APOCYNACEJS. I"H IcHiror**"®. 



Along streams in Singbhum but very rare. jTIs ^"rm. April and frait 

 takes a year to ripen. 



Lower leaven 7-8" by 4-5'', very coriaceous, entire or slightly waved 

 and with slightly refloxed margins, shortly cuspidate with 12-3 prs. of 

 strong nearly straight nerves, shining above, quite glabrous, or puberuious 

 beneath, petiole f". Upper leaves narrow-oblong 4-5" by 1$", cuspidate. 

 Panicles 3-6". Fig. 3-nate. Corolla -J" long. Mouth contracted, loin* 

 narrow f , throat villous. Anthers sagittate and shortly spurred. F*ll\clet 

 spreading 5-6'' by J" at base, narrowed to an obtuse base. Hairs of 

 coma 2" long. 



Said to produce rubber. 



14 Ichnocarpus, Br. 



Climbing shrubs with small salver-shaped flowers in 

 axillary and terminal panicled cymes. Corolla throat con- 

 tracted, lobes overlapping to right, narrow with the upper 

 half inflexed in bud. St. at or below the middle of tube, 

 anthers sagittate adhering to the stigma, sometimes spurred. 

 Disc 5-lobed. Carpels pubescent with about 10 ovules. 

 Follicles very slender divaricate. Coma deciduous. 



1. I. frutescens, R. #r. Onol-sing, K. ; Dudhi-lota, S. ; 

 Saon-lar, Kharw. 



Large rambling shrub woody below with rusty-tomentose 

 branches, ellip. or broadly- oblong acute or shortly acuminate 

 glabrous leaves and narrow panicles of small white flowers 

 I" diam. with narrow twisted bearded lobes. 



Common, especially in hedges in moist localities. Fls. Scpt.zDer- Fft. 

 Jany.-March. The leaves turn brown or reddish in Feby. and are probably 

 deciduous. 



L. H" by 1" to 4i" by 2''ipale and finelv reticulate beneath, base rounded 

 or acute, sec. n. about 5 prs. Petiole £-£". Panicles usually leafy with 

 short branches. Pediceh jW". Calyx with 5 linear glands alternating 

 with the small erect sepals within. Follicles 3-b*$'' linear divarieat* 

 slightly flattened, T 'q'' broad only with a brownish thin tomeutum. Seed 

 about \'' linear, or with coma J'', grooved, pale-+rown. 



Is much used for tying. 



2. 1, ovalifolhis, A.D.C. 



Said to occur in Chota Nagpur. The distinguishing characters are. 

 described as the corolla-tube pubescent and tfte mouth puberulous, while 



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