682 xciv. APOCYNACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Carissa. 



Vahl's C. inermis, described by him from a spineless branch, which justifies the aban- 

 donment of his name inermis. 



5. C. suavissima, Beddome mss. ; climbing, quite glabrous, leaves 2-3 in. 

 broadly ovate acute or acuminate many-nerved, cymes sessile, corolla 1 in. long, 

 berry 2 in. long. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; mountains of the Madura district, Beddome. 



This closely resembles C. macrophylla ; but differs in the slender climbing habit, 

 very small spines, broader paler leaves, the perfectly glabrous flowers and large 

 berries. Col. Beddome describes it as a lofty climber with milky and most delicious 

 fruit. 



TRIBE II. FLUIYIEHIEJE. 

 7. RAlTWOXiFXA, Linn. 



Glabrous (the Indian) shrubs. Leaves 3-4-nately whorled, rarely opposite ; 

 nerves slender, remotely arched, axils glandular. Peduncles alternating with 

 the terminal leaves, becoming lateral. Calyx 5-fid or -partite, eglaaidular within. 

 Corolla salver-shaped, tube cylindric, mouth constricted, throat usually hairy 

 within ; lobes broad, overlapping to the left. Stamens included at or above the 

 middle of the tube ; anthers small, acute, cells rounded at the base. Disc large, 

 cup-shaped or annular. Carpels 2, distinct or connate ; style filiform, stigma 

 broad calyptriform at the base, tip 2-fid ; ovules 2, collateral in each carpel. 

 Ripe carpels drupaceous, distinct or connate, usually 1-seeded. Seeds ovoid, 

 albumen fleshy ; cotyledons flat. DISTEIB. Species about 40, chiefly tropical 

 American. 



* Corolla-tithe slender, inflated a little abova the middle. 



1. XI. serpentina, Benth. in Gen. PL ii. 697; leaves elliptic-lanceolate 

 or obovate acute or acuminate, nerves 8-12 pairs, cymes long-peduncled rounded 

 rarely racemose fruiting erect, sepals short lanceolate, corolla-tube long slender 

 shortly globosely inflated above the middle, drupes in. broadly obliquely 

 ovoid. Kurz For. Fl. ii. 17. Ophioxylon serpentinum, Linn. ; A. DC. Prodr. 

 viii. 342 ; Sot. Mag. t. 784 ; Jones in As. Research, iv. 308 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. \. 

 694, and ed. Carey 8> Wall. ii. 530 ; Wight Ic. t. 849 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 

 116; Dak. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 144; Bedd. For. FL Anal. Gen. 156; Miq. FL 

 Ind. Bat. ii. 404. O. trifoliaturn, Gaertn. Fruct. ii. 129, t. 109, fig. 2 ; Miguel 

 1. c. O. obversum, Miguel L c. 405. Tabernsemontana cylindracea, Wall. Cat. 

 445I.Rheede Hort. Mai. t. 47 ; Burm. Fl. Zeyl. t. 64. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA and plains near the foot of the hills from Sirkind, Edgeworth, 

 and Moradabad, Thomson, to Sikkim. The KHASIA MTS., ascending to 4000 ft. ; 

 ASSAM, PEGU, TENASSERIM, and in the DECCAN PENINSULA, along the Ghats to TRAVAN- 

 CORE and CEYLON. DISTRIB. Java. , 



A small shrub, 6-18 in., rarely 2-3 ft. high, bark white, rarely lenticellate. 

 Leaves 3-7 by 1^-2^ in., green when dry, very pale beneath, narrowed into a short 

 petiole. Cymes 1-2 in. diam., many-flowered; peduncle 2-5 in., stout, branches 

 and pedicels red ; bracts obsolete ; pedicels ^-^ in. ; flowers white or pinkish, nearly 

 1 in. long. Calyx small. Corolla-tube often curved ; lobes not one-quarter the 

 length of the tube, margins undulate; throat hairy. Drupes black, endocarp slightly 

 rugose. 



2. Xt. peguana, Hook.f.\ leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate acuminate, 

 cymes sessile branched from the base branches divaricate, calyx-lobes ovate 

 acute, corolla-tube slender inflated in the middle. 



PEGU; Kurz. 



Branches rather slender, not lenticellate. Leaves opposite and three in a whorl, 



