. 
294 APOCYNACEAE. [ Vinea. 
their axils, as also within the Sol at its base. Flowers usually in 
axillary or terminal cymes or panicles 
Jarge Order, chiefly tr opical. To it gree hose beeen nage sing ‘peed cg 
Le 
Fruit of 2 eit follicles opening ih a ventral sey nour: aa 
seeded; a b 
Pratt drupaceous; shrubs or - tre 
tly age 1 in a didymous fruit ; numerous 
stipitate glands it in a the axils leav 2, Rauwolfia. 
Both drupes free to the e base, or one only developed: 
Leaves igeaeee or opposite : 
Cymes mand 3—5-flowered; no ee glands, drupes sti- 
pitate ; 
es terminal at first, corymbos e, many-flowered ; axillary 
glands variable, drupes not stipitate 3. Ochrosia. 
eet one or scat ee) a een’ cup- shaped gland in 
1. Vinea. 
5. Alyxia. 
4a Vallesia. 
t. ViInGa, | 1: 
Calyx without glands inside, but the sepals sometimes glandular-ciliate 
on the edge. Corolla salver-shaped, 5- Rie its tube slender, the lobes 
ovate or oblong, sinistrorse*, without scales the throat. Anthers 
enclosed, not appendiculate. Disk of ‘ oblong glands alternating with 
the carpels. Ovary of 2 distinct carpels united by a single style, ship 
i t 
of hairs at the top. Fruit of 2 cylindrical erect or spreading follicles. 
eeds oblong-cylindrical, truncate on both sides, laterally affixed. — Erect 
or creeping herbs or undershrubs with opposite leaves. Flowers axillary, 
sega or two together 
enus belonging to the teniperate and tropical regions of the Old World, ex 
rie vo alownk 
#1. V.rosea, L.— DC. Prod. VIII, 382. — An erect, slightly pubescent 
perennial, 1—2 ft. high, branching only at the base. Leaves obovate 0 
oblong, obtuse, 1—2‘ long, narrowed into a very short petiole. Flowers 
rely white, 2 together, almost sessile. Sepals short, subulate, 
pabenennt, Corolla- tube about 9” long, with a narrow callous throat 
the lobes broad, oblique, not much shorter than the tube. —- Bot. Mag 
tab. 248. — Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 220. — Catharanthus rosea, G. Don. — 
Loch / rosea, Reichenb. 
of tropical America, now pele naturalized in various parts of Hawaii and 
Shale pe ia is in many other countries 
= 
*) The terms dextrorse and sinistrorse, a 
designate the direction in which the I la peng 
on a front view. Tohes of yr contorted corolla oyerlap 
