218 a p o c yn A c em . [Allamanda. 



In the Happy Valley woods, Wilford; also Wright. A tropical American species, escaped 

 from gardens although apparently wild. 



2. MELODINTJS, Forst. 



Calyx without glands. Corolla-tube cylindrical ; limb spreading, with oblique 

 or falcate lobes, and 5 or 10 small erect scales at the mouth of the tube, either 

 free or united in a ring or cup. Anthers oblong, included in the tube. Ovary 

 single, 2-celled. Style filiform, with a thickened conical stigma. Emit ovoid 

 or globular, succulent. — Woody climbers. Leaves opposite. Flowers in ter- 

 minal sessile trichotomous cymes. 



A small genus, confined to tropical Asia and the islands of the South Sea. 

 Scales of the mouth of the corolla 1 to \\ lines long. Sepals very ohtuse. 



Scales of the corolla united to the middle. Lobes broader than long »1. M. suaveolens. 



Scales of the corolla free. Lobes longer than broad 2. M. monogymis. 



Scales of the corolla exceedingly short. Sepals, at least the outer ones, 



acute 3. M.fusiformis. 



1. M. suaveolens, Champ, in Kew Journ. Bot. iv. 333. A tall woody 

 climber, glabrous, except a slight pubescence on the inflorescence. Leaves 

 ovate, oblong, or almost lanceolate, acuminate, 2 to 3 or rarely near 4 in. 

 long, smooth and shining on the upper side, but not so much so as in the two 

 following species, on petioles of 3 to 6 lines. Flowers white, sweet-scented, 

 in dense terminal trichotomous cymes, sessile above the last leaves, and shorter 

 than them. Pedicels short. Sepals orbicular, very obtuse, about 1$ lines 

 long. Corolla-tube 4 to 5 lines long j the lobes shorter, narrow at the base, 

 suddenly expanded, chiefly on one side, into a very oblique or falcate lamina, 

 broader than long, with 2 irregular teeth on the inner or expanded edge. 

 Scales of the throat more than a line long, united to about the middle into a 

 5- or 10-lobed cup. Berry globular. — Lycimma suaveolens, Hance in Walp. 

 Ann. iii. 31. 



In the Happy Valley woods, Champion, Hance, Wilford, Wright. Also on the adjacent 

 continent. 



2. M. monogynus, Roxb. ; A. DC. Prod. viii. 329; Bot. Reg. t. 834; 

 Bot. Mag. £.2527. A tall woody climber resembling the last species in most 

 respects, but the leaves are usually longer and narrower in proportion, often 

 above 4 in. long, more coriaceous, smooth and shining, the sepals scarcely so 

 broad, the flowers larger, the tube full 5 lines long, the lobes obovate or 

 broadly oblong, falcate with 1 or 2 teeth on the inner expanded edge, the 

 scales of the throat free, or scarcely connected at the very base, hairy inside. — 

 M. Icetus, Champ, in Kew Journ. Bot. iv. 332. 



Hongkong, Champion, Wright, Wilford. Widely spread over northern and eastern India, 

 and probably also in the Archipelago. The Hongkong specimens have the scales of the 

 corolla longer and broader than most of the Indian ones, and sometimes slightly united at 

 the base, and I had therefore, in my former enumeration, adopted them as a distinct species, 

 but I now feel convinced, from the examination of more specimens, that whatever may be 

 thought of the two other Hongkong species, the present one is but a variety of the common 

 M. 



3. M. fusiformis, Champ, in Kew Journ. Bot. iv. 332. This species is 

 again very nearly allied to the M. monogynus, with the same general habit, 

 foliage and inflorescence, except that the leaves are usually smaller, and the 

 cymes fewer-flowered. Sepals ovate, the outer ones more or less acute. Co- 



