Tbaciielospebiicm.] AP0CYXACE2E. 41 



linear, crowned with a tuft of long hairs, albumen copious ; cotyledons 

 linear, flat. — Special 8, E. Asiatic and Malayan. 



T. fragrans, Hook.f. in F. B. I. iii, 667; Watt E. D.; Gamble Man. Ind. 

 Tinib.4B9j h'anjilal For. Fl. 237 ; Collett Fl. Siml. 313. Ichnocirp 

 f ragrans, Wall. ; Royle III. 270 ; Brandts For. Fl. 327. 



A tall nearly glabrous scaudent shrub ; old stems with tubercled hark. 

 tranches pendulous. Leaves 3-5 in. long, ovate or elliptic-lanceolate, 

 bluntly acuminate, thinly coriaceous, shining above, petiole W in. 

 long. Peduncle* and pedicels slender ; bracts minute, lanceolate. 

 Flowers white or pink, fragrant. Calyx-lobes ovate, acute, with ciliate 

 edges, ^ the length of the corolla-tube. C'oro/ia-tube $*i in. long 

 pubescent at the base of the lobes and round the mouth. "Disk of 5, 

 small erect glands. Follicles 4-9 in. long or more. Seeds | in. long, 

 obtuse at both ends, smooth. 



Dehra Dun, in the Mothronwala swamp and on the banks of the Ee-n 

 Flowers April-June. Distbib. Sub-tropical and temperate Hima- 

 laya up to 7,'. 00 ft. from Simla to Sikkim and Bhutan, also in Assam 

 and Upper Burma. 



11. ICHNOCARPUS, R. Br. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 669. 



Ciimbing shrubs. Leaves opposite, nerves distant. Flovh 

 small or minute, in long terminal and axillary paniculate cymes. 

 Calyx 5-fid., glandular within. Corolla salver shaped, throat 

 contracted or villous ; lobes narrowed to an obtuse point, overlapping 

 to the right, the upper half of each lobe deflexed in bud. Stam>. 

 at or below the middle of the corolla-tube ; anthers sagittate, 

 conniving over and adhering to the stigma, cells spurred at the base. 

 Disk free, 5*lobed. Carpels 2, distinct, exserted from the disk, 

 many-ovuled, hairy, style short, stigma ovoid or obloug. Follicles 

 Blender, spreading or divaricate. Seeds narrowed at the tip, crowned 

 with a deciduous coma, albumen scanty, cotyledons long and flat. — 

 Species 5 or G, in India, Malaya and Australia. 



I. frutescens, 7,'. Br. fa Mem. Worn. Soc. i (1S09), 62 : Ait. Hort. Ke v. 

 ed. 2, ii, 69; Royle III. 270; Brandts For. Fl. 327; F. B. I. iii, 66 

 WaHB.D.j Kaniilal For. Fl. 2S6 : Gamble Man. Ind. Tinib. 4S9 ; Co< 



Fl. Bomb, ii, 142 ; Frain Beng. Fl. 6S0.— Vern. Kali dudhi, bei 

 (Saharanpur), bamar (Gorakhpur). 



An evergreen climbing shrub ; young branches infloresconce and under 

 surface of leaves rusty-ttmentose. Leaves variable, 2-8 in. long, 

 elliptic-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, usually rounded 

 at the base, dark-fjreen glabrous anil shining above, palu ati'l more or less 

 pubeBcont beneath, with slender reticulations between the main later 



