Rauwolfia.} APOCYNACEAE, 295 
2. RAUWOLFIA, L. 
Calyx 5-cleft, without glands, Corolla salver- shaped, without scales, 
5-lobed, the lobes sinistrorse in the bud. Stamens inserted below the 
throat, the anthers not appendiculate. Ovaries 2, aaa or partly — 
connate, surrounded an urceolate disk. Ovules 2, rarely more in each 
carpel, collateral on a ventral placenta. Stigma clavate, with a thick or 
membranous ring at the base, emarginate. Drupes distinct, or more 
frequently in part connate in a didymous emarginate ‘or 2-cleft fruit, each 
pyrena with 1 seed. Embryo within fleshy epee with foliaceous 
cotyledons and a straight or recurved superior radicle. — Shrubs or trees 
with opposite or whorled leaves. Flowers in sind often umbellate 
cymes, at first terminal. 
A genus about 40 species, chiefly say ag he of tropical America, a few African 
and Maladies: and 2 species in New Caledon 
. R, Sandwicensis, A. DC. Prod. VIII, 339. — A small milky tree, 
er 20 ft. high, with short and stiff eas Gren Rie which 
are striate and densely studded with leaf-s Leaves whorl, 
elliptico-oblong, 83—6/ & L/s«~—24, nyo ia pa both ends, pale thin 
chartaceous, the faint parallel veins confluent inside the margin, the 
petioles 1—1%/2”, with 5—12 stipitate or linear glands in pon axilla. 
longer than the petioles, at first terminal, but soon axillary through inno- 
vations from the apex; the common peduncle angular, 1—1'/2', the pedicels 
1” or less, the acute bracts 2—1“, including some stipitate glands. Calyx 
unequal width. Tube of the yellowish corolla 4", scantily hairy inside, 
dilated below the constricted throat, the obovate pee lobes 13/2“. 
Anthers subsessile, sagittate, shortly exserted. Disk small, annular or 5- 
in each carpel. Style filiform, as long as the tube, the 
clavate stigma subtended by a narrow hairy ring. Drupe didymous, com- 
pressed, obcordate or deeply emarginate at the top, 4—6” in height 
and more in width, rather fleshy, black; the pyrenas thick woody. 
ti e terete radicle superior and shorter 
than the flat oni cotyledons. — Wawra, in Flora, 1874, p. 367. — 
paso rations Hook. & Arn. (not Forster). — Ochrosia Sandwicensis, 
A. DC. . VII, 357 (not Gray). — The stalked glands sometimes appear 
on the Se of the bracts as well as in their axils, and, when imper- 
fectly developed, assume the appearance of «spinous processes or teeth», 
as noticed by the authors of Beechey’s Botany and by De Candolle. 
In of the lower regions, —— = ogc islands; in Oahu on the 
west side of Nuuanu! in Wailupe and Kaala! Nat. «Hao. 
