<Chilocarpiis.~] xciv. APOCYNACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 627 



very thickly coriaceous, brown and opaque above when dry, brighter brown beneath, 

 midrib stout ; petiole ^ in. Flowers unknown. Fruit on a very stout woody pedicel 

 "with remains of minute persistent bracts in spiral series, bright orange coloured ; 

 pericarp very thick, dehiscent, pulp coarsely granular. Seeds very numerous, 

 'irregularly broadly oblong, ends rounded, hilum excavated, testa smooth, albumen 

 -solid horny. 



3. C. decipiens, Hook. f. ; glabrous, leaves elliptic-oblong or -ovate 

 obtusely acuminate, base acute, nerves very numerous slender nearly horizontal, 

 fruit linear-oblong cylindric rounded at both ends, pericarp woody. 



MALACCA; Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1060 and 1043, C. atro-viridis). 



Leaves 3-3 by 1-1 1, hardly shining above and greenish when dry, beneath pale 

 ibrown minutely dotted ; nerves very slender but prominent on both surfaces ; petiole 

 in. Cymes rather slender, dichotomously branched ; flowers not seen. Fruit l-2 

 by - in., on a stout pedicel bearing numerous minute bracts in spirals. Seeds 

 large, "albumen horny, dull white; cotyledons blood-red, fleshy, convolute" (Main- 

 <jay~). The foliage resembles C. atro-viridis, but there are no recurrent nerves between 

 the primaries. 



*** Pedicels bracteate at the base only ; flowers long ; tube of corolla inflated 

 towards the base. ' 



4. C. XtXaing-ayi, Dyer in Herb. Keiv. ; glabrous, leaves elliptic-oblong 

 obtuse base acute, nerves numerous slightly arched strong beneath, cymes long 

 very stout, pedicels subverticillately branched. 



MALACCA ; Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1046). 



A climber ; branches stout, smooth, shining, swollen at the nodes. Leaves 3-4 by 

 1-2 in., coriaceous, opaque, dull yellowish green when dry on both surfaces ; nerves 

 20-30 pairs, with a recurrent one from the intramarginal between each pair ; petiole 

 in., very stout. Cymes elongate, erect ; peduncles very stout, 1-3 in., bearing 

 superposed pairs of very short branches, the crowded flowers of which give them a 

 ^somewhat whorled appearance ; flowers f in. long, sessile or stoutly pedicelled. Calyx- 

 lobes rounded, short. Corolla-tube very slender, with a ring of hairs below the 

 anthers within; lobes inflexed and forming an ovoid bud much broader than the tube, 

 when expanded in. long, ovate- lanceolate, narrowed into long points. Anthers 

 small, ovate, longer than the slender filament. Ovary acute, " 1 -celled with 4 parietal 

 placentas," Maingay. Fruit " spherical and obtusely conoid, coriaceous, fleshy, cap- 

 sular, orange-yellow. Seeds very many, immersed in angular bright yellow masses 

 (pulp), mixed with delicate arachnoid fibres, subquadrate, curved on one surface, 

 deeply channelled on the other ; testa cartilaginous, bright brown ; albumen horny ; 

 embryo axile; cotyledons semi-oval, flat, white" (Maingay). 



3. LEUCONOTIS, Jack. 



Erect milky evergreen shrubs. Leaves opposite, nerves distant. Flowers in 

 peduncled axillary cymes, 4-merous. Calyx 4-lobed or -partite, eglandular or 

 minutely glandular within. Corolla salver-shaped, tube dilated in the middle, 

 throat naked ; lobes 4, short, overlapping to the left. Stamens 4, in the middle 

 -of the tube, included, anthers linear, cells rounded at the base. Disc 0. Ovary 

 .^-celled ; style short, top thickened, stigma 2-toothed ; ovules 2, laterally 

 affixed in each cell. Berry ovoid or globose. Seeds 1-3, imbedded in pulp, 

 ovoid-oblong, testa membranous, albumen 0; cotyledons thick, fleshy, inner 

 faces irregular, radicle short superior. DISTRIB. Species 6, Malayan (not 

 Javan). 



* Calyx k-partite, segments long linear. 



1. Xi. eug enifolius, A. DC. Prodr. viii. 331 ; shoots petioles and nerves 



ss 2 



