Jfelodinns.] xciv. APOCYNACE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) 629 



* Flowers in terminal panicled cymes. Corolla-lobes oblong or rounded, 

 <quite entire. 



1. BE. monog-ynus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 56 ; leaves oblong or oblong-lan- 

 ceolate acute or obtuse base acute or rounded, corolla-tube -f in., lobes as long 

 oblong. A. DC. Prodr. viii. 329 ; Wall. Cat. 1603 ; Wight Ic. t. 394 ; Bot. 

 Reg. t. 834; Sot. Mag. t. 2527. Echaltium piscidium, Wight Ic. t. 242, 

 excl.fig. of fruit. Neriuin piscidium, Roxb. FL Ind. ii. 7, excl. descr. of fruit. 



HIMALAYA; at Bartning, alt. 4500 ft. (leaves only), Clarke. ASSAM, 

 SILHET and the KHASIA MTS., common, ascending to 4000 ft. PENANG ; Maingay. 



A tall milky climber, branches smooth. Leaves 5-6 by l-2 in., pale brown 

 when dry and shining above, nerves many but not close, very slender, arching ; 

 petiole - in. Panicles puberulous, sometimes 12 in. long, brachiate, drooping; 

 flowers usually 3-nate, nearly white, fragrant; pedicels long or short; bracts 

 caducous, Calyx-segvients in., broad, ciliolate. Corolla-tube villous or bearded 

 within, lobes obtuse. Fruit globose, obscurely 4-angled, size and colour of an orange ; 

 pericarp coriaceous. Seeds numerous.- Roxburgh erred in describing the scales of 

 the corolla as being undivided. 



2. IK. khasianus, Hook.f. ; leaves linear-lanceolate acuminate at both 

 ends membranous, cymes short few-fld., corolla-tube in., lobes rounded. 



KHASIA MTS. ; Moflong wood, &c., alt. 5-7000 ft., Griffith, ,7. D. H. $ T. T. 



A smaller plant in all its parts than M. monogynus, with leaves 2.J-5 by 1-1 \ in., 

 and more membranous, very much smaller flowers with a short corolla-tube and 

 rounded lobes, and with the fruit only l in. diam. 



* Flowers small in axillary cymes or fascicles. Corolla-lobes very obliquely 

 2-lobed or 2-Jid at the tip. 



3. IK. orientalis, Blume Bijd. 1026, and Mus. Bot. i. 155, fig. 411 ; 

 quite glabrous, leaves oblong or elliptic-oblong obtusely acuminate base acute, 

 nerves very numerous nearly horizontal very slender, cymes shortly peduncled 

 few-fld., corolla in. lobes short obliquely ovate bicuspidate, scales closing the 

 mouth very thick fleshy lobulate. Miguel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 395, t. 34; A. DC. 

 Prodr. viii. 330 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 250, in note. Ilunteria ? 

 cuspidate, Wall. Cat. 1609; A. D'C. I.e. 350. Alyxia? cuspidata, Wall. Herb. 

 Chilocarpus cuspidatus, Benth. in Gen. PI. ii. 698 (under Hunterid). 



PENANG ; tyallich, Phillips, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1043/2, Chilocarpus sua- 

 veolens). DISTRIB. Java, Sumatra. 



Branches smooth, rather slender, bark very dark. Leaves 4-5 by l|-2 in., thinly 

 coriaceous, greenish brown and shining above when dry, pale yellower green beneath, 

 margins a little undulate ; petiole ^-^ in. Cymes with very short stout peduncles ; 

 flowers crowded; bracts rounded, persistent. Calyx small, lobes rounded. Corolla 

 very thickly coriaceous, tube swollen in the middle, lobes forming a globose bud ; 

 lobes shorter than the tube. Fruit " large, yellow" (Maingay). 



4. M. ? micranthus, Hook.f. ; quite glabrous, leaves elliptic-lanceolate 

 obtusely acuminate base acute nerves remote very slender, cymes subsessile 

 many-flowered, corolla - in. long, lobes short unequally obtusely 2-lobed, 

 scales closing the mouth 2-lobed. 



MALACCA ; Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1090). 



Branches smooth, rather slender; bark black. Leaves 3-6 by 1-lf in., coriaceous, 

 dark brown and shining when dry above, paler bright brown beneath, margins some- 

 what undulate ; petiole in. Fascicles of flowers i-f in. diam. ; bracts broad, short, 

 -deciduous. Calyx very small, lobes rounded. Corolla, coriaceous, tube much swollen 

 in the middle; lobes short, forming a globose bud, obliquely 2-fid, sinus broad, 



