298 APOCYNACEAE. [Alyxia. 
with 2 sharp lateral angles and 2 sharp crests in the upper portion of 
the ventral face, the ventral suture or placenta within protruding into the 
deep furrow of the albumen. Seed ellipsoidal, 18’ long, 8" broad and 
6” deep, pointed at both ends, but sharper at the base, the large horny 
albumen deeply wrinkled by transverse sinuous folds which are invested 
aye the thin membranous testa. Embryo axile, straight, nearly as long 
e albumen, the linear-oblong ahem! cotyledons about as long as the 
ini radicle an ere er. 
vanw and antes on Oah It is the plant of my early collection referred to 
by gi me and Wawra under fetraets Sandwicensis. Called «Kaulu» by the natives, as 
is Sideroxylon Benin’; Fe which the tree and leaves bear a resemblance 
5. ALYXIA, R. Br. 
Calyx without glands, 5- or 4-cleft. Corolla salver-shaped, its tube 
cylindrical or slightly contracted at the throat, without scales, the y or 
or oblong, furrowed on the ventral side by the intruding placenta. Al- 
bumen corneous,, ruminate-lobed, the folds lined with the thin testa. 
mbryo -steaight or curved, the  S oblong, obtuse, foliaceous, 
the rai soperict (inferior according to De Candolle). — Evergreen 
shru mall tr often with twining Te ae Leaves opposite or 
ee Be ca axillary or terminal, disposed in umbellate or spicate 
cymes. 
A genus of about 30 apes. extending from Madagascar and Ceylon through Austral: 
asia to Polynesia. Five species are known from the islands of the S. Pacific. 
Spain Gaud. in Bot. Voy. Freye. p. 451. -- A straggling 
or ob saa twining glabrous shrub. Leaves opposite and ternate, ellip- 
tico- oblong, sand X 1/2—8/4/, acuminate at both ends, on petioles 
of 1'/:—2”, coriaceous, glossy, with evanescent veins, the margins generally 
revolute over the distinct intramarginal nerve. Peduncles axillary, 4“ long; 
very m 
acute bracts at the head of the peduncle. Calyx small, 12—1", acutely 
4-, rarely 5-parted. Corolla yellowish, the tube 2—2t/2“, slightly widening 
_ below the contracted thro: roat, puberulous within along ie adnate filaments, 
the 4, rarely 5 ovate lobes 1/s the ahs of the tube. Anthers § 
acate, Style enclosed, the stigma at first conical and slightly 
hairy at the top, but capitate afterwards. Ovules 2 in each carpel, supe 
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