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xciv. APOCYNACEJ;. (J. D. Hooker.) [Wiilouglibeia. 



petiole - in., stout. Cymes numerous, 1 in. diam., branches divaricate ; bracts very 

 minute ; flowers pedicelled, 4-5-merous. Calyx small, lobes broadly ovate. Corolla- 

 tube inflated, quite glabrous within ; lobes slightly falcate, forming an oblong bud 

 narrower than the tube, which they nearly equal in length. Anthers shortly ovate, 

 twice as long as the filaments. Ovary distinctly 1 -celled with parietal many-ovuled 

 placentas. Fruit unknown. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



9. W. RUFESCENS, Dyer in Herb. Kew.; leaves elliptic or elliptic-oblong or -lanceo- 

 late, obtuse, very coriaceous, shining above, red-brown when dry beneath, nerves 

 1 6-20 pairs very slender, slightly arched, interspaces reticulated. 



MALACCA, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1092). 



Branches divaricate, thickened at the nodes, bark black ; tendrils not seen. Leaves 

 2^-3 by 1-lj in., dirty brown above, bright-brown beneath; petiole ^ in. Fruit 

 (unripe) globose, nearly 2 in. diam, 



2. CHILOCARFUS, Blume. 



Milky sarmentose shrubs. Leaves opposite, nerves horizontal close. Flowers 

 small, in axillary cymes. Calyx short, 5-lobed, eglandular. Corolla-tube cylin- 

 dric, throat naked ; lobes 6, broad, overlapping to the left, twisted to the right. 

 Stamens at or below the middle of the tube ; anthers lanceolate, acute, cells 

 rounded at the base. Disc 0. Ovary 1-celled, placentas 2 parietal ; style short, 

 stigma ovoid or conical, tip obscurely 2-toothed ; ovules many, 2-seriate on each, 

 placenta. Berry fleshy, at length 2-valved. Seeds imbedded in pulp, or in a 

 granular substance, compressed or thick, grooved or excavated at the hilum, 

 albumen copious, horny, equable or ruminate ; cotyledons flat, radicle elongate. 

 DISTKIB. Species 8, Malayan and Australian. 



* Pedicels bracteate at the base only ; Jlowers very small, in lax panicled 

 cymes; tube of corolla inflated in the middle (fruit unknown). 



1. C. atro-viridis, Blume Mus. Sot. i. 153 ; glabrous, leaves oblong 

 obtusely caudate, nerves very numerous nearly horizontal straight slender. 

 Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 393. 0. makbaricus, Beddome Ic. PL Ind. Or. t. 175. 

 Hunteria? atro-viridis, Wall. Cat. 1614; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 351. Winchia 

 atro-viridis, Kurz For. FL ii. 170. 



MALAYAN PENINSULA ; Tavoy, Gomez ; Mergui, Griffith, Parish. MALABAR ; Bed- 

 dome. 



Branches slender; bark smooth, sparsely lenticellate. Leaves 3-6 by 1J-2 in., 

 thinly coriaceous, base acute, green and opaque when dry above, paler green beneath, 

 minutely dotted and with a recurrent nerve from the marginal one between every 

 pair of primaries; petiole - in., slender. Cymes 2-4 in., on slender pedicels; 

 branches trichotomous, spreading, slender ; flowers pedicelled, 3-nate or subumbellate ; 

 bracts minute. Calyx-lobes rounded, with white margins. Corolla in. long, tube 

 inflated in the middle, glabrous externally, pubescent at the mouth and base of the 

 stamens within; lobes short, falcate, broadly notched on one side, indexed and forming 

 a globose bud. Anthers subsessile, oblong. Ovary acute. Fruit unknown. The C. 

 denudatus, Blume, of Java, may prove to be the same as this. 



* Pedicels with many imbricate bracts ; floivers very small; fruits capsular, 



2. C. enervis, Hook, f., leaves oblong or elliptic-lanceolate obtuse or 

 obtusely apiculate narrowed into a slender petiole nerveless^ fruit 4 in. ellipsoid 

 narrowed to an obtuse point base contracted into a short stipes, pericarp very 

 thick. 



MALACCA ; Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1044). 



Scandent; branches tout, smooth, swollen at the nodes. Leaves 3 by 1-1| in., 



