Vallabis.] APOCYXACXJE. 37 



lateral nerves 8*9 pairs ; petioles ^•amploxioa'il at tho bav 

 few-flowered ; peduncles about 1$ in. long, pedioela Blende] 



pure white, fragrant at night, buds clavate. Calyss-lobea broadly ovate, 

 acute or rounded. Corolla-tub* $-1 in. long, dilated round the anth 

 lobes about as Ions: as the tube, obliquely ovato, obtuse, crisped on one 

 margin. Authors acuminate. Carpels glabrous. Follicles 1-2 in. ! 



wading, recurved at tho acuminate apex, 1-3-keeled, opening out 

 flat when ripo. Seeds '6-6, oblong, striated, embedded in a red pulpy 

 aril. 



>uh-Himalayan tract from Dehra Dun eastwards. Flowers May-August, 

 fruiting during the cold season. Distrib. Garhwal, E. Bengal, 

 Khasia Hills, Assam and Burma, also found in Trinidad. An orna- 

 mental shrub, much cultivated in gardens. The flowers are dimorphic 

 as regards the length of the style and the position of the anthers. 

 Under cultivation the flowers often become double. 



7. VALLARIS, Burm. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 650. 



Twining shrubs. Leaves opposite, minutely dotted. Flowers white 

 in axillary or pseudo-axiilaiy cymes or fascicles. Calyx 5-partite- 

 glandular or not within, segments narrow. Corolla salver-shape or 

 subrotate, tube short, throat naked ; lobes broad, contorted, over- 

 lapping to the right. Stamens attached at the top of the corolla- 

 tube ; filaments very short, clavate; anthers exserted, conniving in 

 a cone and adherent to the stigma, connective with a dorsal gUnd, 

 cells produced into rigid basal spurs. Dish annular or cupular, 

 with 5 lobes or scales. Carpels 2, at first connate, many-ovu!e.l ; 

 style filiform, pubescent ; stigm* thick, obscurely annulate near the 

 base. Fruit oblong, acuminate, the carpels at length separating. 

 Seeds 2-seriate, ovate, acuminate, compressed, tip comose, albumen 

 scanty. — Species 5 or 6, in Trop. Asia and Malaya. 



V. Heynel, Spreng. Byst. i, 635; F. B. I. Hi, 165; Watt E. £•; Cooke 



Fl. Bomb, it, 136 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 4S6 ; Collett Fl. Siml. 311, 



Kanjildl For. Fl. 234; Brain Beng. Fl. 675. V. dichotomy Wall ; Route 



III. 270 ; Brandis For. Fl. 327. Echites dichotoma, Boxb. Fl. lad. ii, m— 



Vern. Dudhi bel. 



A large twining shrub with ash-coloured bark. Leaves usually glabrous, 

 gland-dotted, 2-1^ in. long, elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 base acute, upper surface shining ; petiole £-$ in. long, with glands in 

 the axils. Flowers I in. across, in lai pubescent cymes, creamy white, 

 fragrant ; peduncles slender, pubescent cr glabrous ; pedicels usually 

 decurved, pubescent; bracts linear-lanceolate, acute, pubescent- 

 Calyx pubescent ; lobes -j\$ in. long, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or sub- 

 acute, ciliate. Corolla $ in. across, minutely pubescent outside, tube £ 



