12. Wrightia.] 89. APOCYNACE^. 



elliptic shortly caudate acuminate (or with a short obtuse acumi- 

 nation) tomentose leaves 2-i" long, raxely attaining 6" by 3*5", and 

 easily distinguished from the last by the 8-14 close strong sec. n. only 

 •1--3" apart and petioles •2--3" long with the milky juice yellow or 

 yellowish- white. Flowers 1" diam. greenish-orange or cream-coloured 

 with deep-orange or red toothed coronal scales. Follicles 6-12" con- 

 nate into a compressed grooved pendant cylinder, greenish, verrucose 

 with white tubercles. 



In valleys and damper places than the last but sometimes in association in rocky 

 valleys. Much more widely distributed throughout the whole province in favour- 

 able situations, but nowhere very common ! Fl. April-July. Fr. Dec. -Feb. 

 Deciduous Feb. -March. 



Bark lig-ht grey rough with leuticels only, blaze soft, first with a thin chlorophj'U 

 layer, then nearly white or a pale greenish brown, with copious latex. The leaves 

 (as in others of the genus, but more markedly) are arranged like the leaflets of a 

 pinnate leaf and far more numerous on the twigs than in TV, fincforia, rarely 

 obovate but base often somewhat cuneate. Seeds slender with white coma. 



" The wood is used for turning and carved work. Weight about 40 lbs." Gamble. 

 The pod-like fruits make the tree easily recognisable. 



13. STROPHANTHUS, DC, 



Small trees or shrubs, without milky juice in some species, climbing 

 in oru." area, with opposite leaves and large or m.s. flowers in terminal 

 cymes. Calyx glandular Avithin. Corolla with tubular base, then 

 campanulate Avith 5 lobes remarkaV)le by being produced into some- 

 times very long tails, throat with 10 scales sometimes connate. 

 Stamens at the top of the tiabe, included, anthers sagittate, tips 

 filiform adhering to the stigma, base spurred. Disc 0. Carpels 

 distinct, many-ovuled, style filiform, rugose with cellular papillse, tip 

 dilated, stigma simj)le or 2-fid. Follicles oblong or elongate free, 

 usually spreading. Seeds compressed, fusiform, nari'owed into a 

 feathery tail or with a sessile coma ; base with a deciduous tuft 

 of hairs. 



1. S. Wallichii, A.DC. 



A climber Avith lenticellate branches, oblong cuspidate or shortly 

 caudate glabrous leaves 3-4" long Avith minute subulate stipules (?) 

 and intrapetiolar glands and terminal 2-chotomous cymes of pale- 

 coloured floAvers veined purple Avithin, easily recognised by the long 

 tAvisted caudate petals often 2" long. Follicles 6-8" long, -75'' broad 

 at base and 1'75" broad above base, then tapering to the tip, divaricate 

 in a straight line. 



Singbhum forests, in valleys ! Mais of Orissa, frequent ! Fl. April-May. Fr. c.s. 

 but remaiuing open until next flowering. 



L. usually about i" l;y 2" with 6-10 fine sec. n. reticulate within the margin. 

 Petiole •12-'2o". Cymes 3-4 ', lax, with recurved linear bz'acts at the forks. Sepals 

 linear-subulate "5"', nearly free. Corolla-tube constricted about the middle, "75" 

 long, throat Avith 5 deeply 2-fid scales. Follicles Avoody pustulate on Avoody 

 peduncles. 



14. PARSONSIA, Br. 



Twining shrubs. Juice scarcely milky in our species. Leaves 

 opposite. Fls. small Avhite or greenish in 2-3-chotomous, often dense, 

 cymes. Calyx 5-partite, glandular or Avith 5 scales Avithin or naked. 



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