624 XCIY. APOCTNACEJ). (J. D. Hooker.) [Willouglibeia. 



and PL As. Har. iii. 45 ; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 321 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 165. W. 

 martabanica, Wall. Cat. 1619, and PI. As. Rar. iii. 45, t. 272: A. DC. l.c.\ 

 Kurz I.e. Hunteria?, Watt. Cat. 9066. Pacourea Gudara, Herb. Ham., 

 Watt. Cat. 4465. 



ASSAM; at Gualpara, Hamilton. SILHET ; De Silva. CACHAR ; Keenan. CHIT- 

 TAGONG; Roxburgh, &c. PEGU; McClelland. MARTABAN; Wallich. MALACCA; 

 Griffith. DISTRIB. Borneo. 



"An immense climber; tendrils long, branched; bark in. thick " (Roxburgh). 

 Leaves 4-7 by l-2 in., greenish or brown when dry and polished above, paler 

 beneath, margins waved ; petiole - in. Cymes shortly stoutly peduncled, few-fld. ; 

 bracts rounded, deciduous ; pedicels very short. Calyx thick, subglobose ; lobes 

 short, rounded, ciliolate. Corolla-titbe % in., inflated in the middle, lobes three times 

 as long. Anthers subsagittate ; filaments short. Ovary ovoid, acute; style very- 

 short, stigma conical. Berry " size of a lemon, subovoid, rind thick smooth friable. 

 Seeds many in soft pulp mixed with cottony fibres, size of a garden bean ; outer coat 

 fleshy, inner thin friable," Eoxb. Yields much caoutchouc. Fruit edible. Kurz, 

 who keeps W. edulis distinct from W. martabanica, gives no other characters than 

 "berry ovate smooth" in the former, and "berry globular wrinkled in the latter." 

 Assuming the usual variety in the size and form of such fruits in Apocynacea, and 

 attributing the wrinkles to age, nothing is left whereby to distinguish these plants, 

 of which the specimens in Wallich's Herbarium are identical. 



3. W. ceylanica, Thwaites Enum. 191; glabrous, leaves elliptic ob- 

 tusely acuminate base acute margins waved, nerves very many pairs horizontal 

 interspaces reticulated, cymes sessile or peduncled, corolla-lobes linear-oblong 

 much longer than the tube. Beddome For. FL, Anal. Gen. xx. fig. 4. Chilo- 

 carpus ceylanicus, Wight Ic. t. 1288. Winchia cirrhifera, Gardner ms. 



CEYLON ; in forests ascending to 4000 ft., Gardner, &c. 



A climbing -shrub with long branched tendrils, bark of branches black. Leaves 

 3-4 by 1^-2 in., very coriaceous, when dry very dark brown and polished above, 

 light red-brown beneath; nerves straight, with a recurrent one from the intramarginai 

 between every pair of primaries ; petiole | in. Cymes usually peduncled, few or 

 many-fld. ; bracts ovate, obtuse ; pedicels short. Calyx small, lobes short rounded, 

 ciliolate. Corolla-tube very short, lobes three times as long. Anthers lanceolate, 

 filaments nearly as long, very broad and fleshy "at the base. Ovary very broad, 

 depressed-flagon-shaped; style rather slender, stigma elongate, obpyriform. Fruit 

 " 4-5 in. diam., spherical or subpyriform, fleshy, yellow-red. Seeds f by ^ in., oblong, 

 compressed, testa membranous, cotyledons fleshy, reddish," Thwaites. 



4. W. firma, Blume M,us. Sot. i. 154; glabrous, leaves elliptic or 

 elliptic-lanceolate very coriaceous shining above obtusely acuminate base acute, 

 nerves 10-15 pairs nearly straight interspaces hardly reticulated, cymes sessile 

 dense-flowered, corolla-lobes linear-oblong longer than the inflated tube, berry 

 pyriform. Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 390. W. Burbidgei, Dyer in Kew Gard. 

 Rep. 1880, 44, 46. 



SINGAPORE ; jungles near the Botanical Gardens, H. Murton. DISTRIB. Sumatra, 

 Borneo. 



A large climber; branches stout, obtusely angled, bark smooth. Leaves very 

 variable, 3-6 by 1-3 in., very coriaceous, usually dark brown and polished above, or 

 on both surfaces when dry; midrib very stout beneath; nerves slender but pro- 

 minent, reticulations very indistinct. Flowers about \ in. long Calyx-lobes ovate, 

 obtuse, obscurely ciliate. Corolla-tube inflated in the middle ; lobes narrow. Anthers 

 ovate, acute, filaments short. Ovary ovoid, acute; style short. Fruit in Bornean 

 specimens as large and of the form of a good sized pear, 4 inches long, orange-yellow, 

 pericarp thick. Seeds 1 in. long. There may be more than one species under this 

 name. The Javan specimens referred to it by Miquel have much fewer nerves in the 



