WillougJibeia.'] xciv. APOCYNACE*:. (J. D. Hooker.) 625 



leaf. Burbidge has made in Borneo excellent drawings of the whole plant in flower 

 and fruit. In both Singapore and Borneo it is said to yield the " Gutta Singarip." 



5. W. grandiflora, Dyer in Herb. Kew. ; quite glabrous, leaves elliptic 

 or orbicular tip and base rounded very thickly coriaceous pale, nerves 4-7 pairs 

 very strong arching interspaces with distant reticulations, cymes densely many- 

 fld., corolla-lobes very large oblong much longer than the slender tube. 



MALACCA; Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1047). DISTRIB. Borneo. 



A very stout climber, with woody tendrils, branches as thick as a goose-quill. 

 Leaves 3-5 by 3-3^ in., very pale yellowish-red and rather shining above when dry, 

 beneath cinnamon coloured and soft to the touch, with midrib and nerves very distinct 

 but not prominent ; petiole stout, |-1 in. Cymes very dense-fld. ; flowers shortly and 

 stoutly pedicelled. Calyx broad, lobes rounded. Corolla nearly 1 in. long before 

 expansion, tube in., very slender, swollen towards the base, lobes f-1 in. long, tip 

 rounded. Anthers lanceolate, base cordate, filaments slender. Ovary minute, broadly 

 conical ; style very short, base conical, top urn-shaped ; stigma slender, as long as 

 the style. 



6. W. tenuiflora, Dyer in Herb. Kew.; shoots and cymes pubescent, 

 leaves elliptic-oblong or oblanceolate obtusely acuminate base acute, nerves 20- 

 30 pairs very slender nearly horizontal interspaces nerveless, petiole slender. 



MALACCA; Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1049). 



Branches with black bark. Leaves 3-4 by l-l in., thinly coriaceous, dark brown 

 and hardly shining above when dry, pale brighter brown beneath but without reticu- 

 lations between the nerves, margins flat ; petiole - in. Cymes numerous, rusty 

 puberulous. subsessile, dense-flowered ; bracts small, rounded. Calyx-lobes rounded . 

 Corolla-tube % in. long, slender, hairy within, globose near the base just above thf 

 calyx; lobes narrowly linear-oblong, obtuse. Anthers cordate-lanceolate, filaments 

 short slender. Ovary hemispheric, top almost truncate; style very short, stigma 

 large, elongate conic. Fruit 4 in. long, "pyriform, abounding in caoutchouc; peri- 

 carp thick, leathery. Seeds many, naked, cotyledons pink fleshy " (Maingay'). 



** Mouth of the corolla ivith tubercles or scales. (Tendrils not seen.) 



7. W. oblong-a, Dyer in Herb. Kew. ; branches very stout, leaves elliptic 

 obtuse or suddenly obtusely contracted at the tip opaque above, base acute, 

 nerves 10-15 pairs arched interspaces reticulated, cymes sessile dense-fld.. 

 corolla-lobes linear-oblong longer than the rather long tube, berry oblong. 



MALACCA ; Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1089). 



A long flexuose shrub (Maingay). Branches woody, obtusely angled, rough, with 

 close-set small lenticels, bark pale. Leaves 3-6 by 1^-3 in., base usually rounded, 

 thickly coriaceous ; when dry dark brown and opaque on both surfaces ; petiole stout. 

 \ in. Cymes very small, sessile, pedicels very short. Calyx-lobes short, oblong, 

 strongly ciliate. Corolla-tube i in., rather slender, inflated in the middle, lobes twice 

 as long, with glands or tubercles at the sinus. Berry many-seeded, pericarp leathery. 

 Seeds 2-seriate, imbedded in firm pulp ; cotyledons large, fleshy (Maingay}. Abound- 

 in tenacious milky juice. 



8. W. flavescens, Dt/er in Herb. Keic. ; quite glabrous, leaves ellipt-V 

 obtusely acuminate base subacute or rounded, nerves numerous nearly horizontal 

 very slender interspaces reticulated, cymes sessile many-fld., corolla-tube very 

 short, tubercles at the mouth small lobulate. Chilocarpus flavescens, Kw 

 Gard. Report, 1880, 47. 



SINGAPORE ; in jungles near the Botanic Gardens, H. Murton. " A large climber ; 

 stem 8 in. diam." (Murton). 



Branches stout, smooth, divaricate, somewhat compressed, nodes swollen, bark 

 brown. Leaves 3-4 by l-2 in., thickly coriaceous, dirty brown and opaque above when 

 ^ry, brighter and paler yellowish-brown beneath, nerves very distinct though slender ; 



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