Mgnckospermum.'] APOCYNACEiB. 221 



each. Stigma oblong. Fruit of 2 long linear follicles. Seeds ending in a 

 naiTow neck, with a coma of long silky hairs. — Woody climbers. Leaves op- 

 posite. Flowers in loose terminal trichotomous cymes, sometimes appearing 

 axillary by the growing out of a lateral bud. 



A small genus from tropical or eastern Asia, not perhaps sufficiently distinct from 

 Aganosma. 



1. R. jasmin oides, Lindl. in Journ. Hort. Soc. i. 74, and in Faxt. Fl. 

 Gard. ii. 26, /. 147. A slender woody climber, glabrous, or the young 

 branches more or less pubescent. Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute 

 or acuminate, 1 to 2 in. in the wild specimens, twice as long when cultivated, 

 on a very short petiole. Flowers white, sweet-scented. Sepals about 1 line 

 long, narrow, with a ring of about 20 glands more or less united into 5 at 

 their base inside. Corolla-tube about 3 lines long ; the lobes about as long, 

 oblong-cuneate and very oblique or falcate. Disk-glands distinct. Stigma 

 surrounded at its base by a prominent ring. Follicles 3 or 4 in. long. I 

 have not seen the seeds. — Malouetia asiatica, Sieb. and Zucc. Fam. Nat. Fl. 

 Jap. fasc. ii. 39. EcJutes saligna, Delile, in several herbaria. Parechittz 

 Thunbergii, A. Gray in Mem. Amer. Acad. vi. 403. 



Abundant on the top of Mount Gough, Champion. On the Chinese continent and in 

 Japan. 



8. AGANOSMA, Don. 



Calyx usually with a ring of glands inside at the base, occasionally with 

 few or none. Corolla-tube cylindrical ; the limb spreading, with oblique nar- 

 row lobes about the length of the tube. Anthers sessile near the base of 

 the tube, not sagittate. Disk annular or cup-shaped, shortly 5-lobed or 

 nearly entire. Ovary of 2 distinct carpels united by the single style, with 

 several ovules in each. Stigma spindle-shaped or cylindrical. Fruit of 

 2 long linear follicles. Seeds with a coma of long silky hairs. — Woody 

 climbers or shrubs. Leaves opposite. Flowers white, in terminal trichoto- 

 mous cymes, often appearing axillary by the growing out of a lateral bud. 



A small tropical Asiatic genus. 



1. A. laevis, Champ, in Kew Journ. Bot. iv. 335. An evergreen, gla- 

 brous straggling shrub or climber. Leaves narrow-oblong or lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, 2 to 4 in. long, smooth and shining, with few distant oblique lateral 

 veins, narrowed into a petiole of 3 to 5 lines. Flowers white, numerous, in 

 trichotomous cymes or dense panicles at the ends of the branches. Sepals 

 small, narrow-ovate, without glands. Corolla-tube 2 lines long, pubescent 

 inside ; the lobes about as long, narrow, oblique, pubescent above. Anthers 

 short, obtuse at the base. Disk annular, minutely toothed. Fruit unknown. 

 — Holarrhena qffinis, Hook, and Aim. Bot. Beech. 198 ? 



In a ravine, Champion ; at Little Hongkong and West Point, Wilford ; also Hinds and 

 Wright ; and on the adjacent continent. This plant differs from the others of the genus in 

 the absence of the calycine glands. I have not been able positively to verify Hooker and 

 Arnott's synonym, for the original specimen of Holarrhena qffinis cannot now be found in 

 the Hookerian Herbarium. 



9. POTTSIA, Hook, and Am. 

 Calyx with a ring of glands on the inside at the base. Corolla-tube cylin- 



