Rauwolfia.'] xciv. APOCYNACE^;. (J. D. Hooker.) 633 



3-5 by H-lf in., very membranous; nerves 7-10 pairs, very faint. Cymes with the 

 main branches an inch long widely divaricating from the base, some decurved ; 

 flowers pedicelled, A-4 in. long. Calyx very small, many times shorter than the 

 corolla-tube. Corolla-lobes very small. Fruit not seen. This is closely allied to E. 

 scrpentina, differing in the inflorescence, smaller flowers, and calyx. 



* Corolla-tube broad, inflated at the top. 



3. R. densiflora, Benth. in Gen. PI. ii. 697 ; leaves obovate or oblanceo- 

 late acuminate, nerves 8-16 pairs, cymes short- or long-peduncled or corymbose 



erector spreading in fruit, sepals elongate subulate-lanceolate half the length of 

 the broadly tubular corolla-tube which is inflated at the top, drupes - in. 

 obliquely ellipsoid. Ophioxylon neilgherrense, Wight Ic. t. 1292 ; Dalz. J- Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 144. 0. ceylanicum, Wight Ic. t. 1291. O. rnacrocarpum, Wight 

 I.e. iv. part 2, 1. O. densiflorum^ Thwaites Enum. 191 ; Beddome For. Fl. 

 Anal. Gen. 156, t. 20. fig. 2. Tabernaemontana densiflora, Wall, in Sot. Reg. 

 4. 1273 ; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 373: T. parviflora, Herb. Heyne in Wall. Cat. 4453. 



. KHASIA MTS. ; alt. 1-4000 ft., J. D. H. T. T. DECCAN PENINSULA, on the 

 Western Ghats ; from the Concan southwards, alt. about 6000 ft. CEYLON, ascending 

 to 6000 ft. 



A larger shrub than R. serpentina ; branches copiously lenticellate. Leaves often 

 4 in a whorl, very variable in size, 4-10 by 2-3 in., and number and stoutness 

 of nerves. Cymes often numerous, dichotomously branched, branches and pedicels 

 erect; flowers rose-red or white, ^ in. long. Calyx-lobes -| in. Corolla- lobes 

 Bounded, nearly as long as the tube. Drupes very rugose. 



VAE. ? macrophylla ; leaves broader 8-10 by 2-3^ in. very membranous, cymes 

 very short branched from the base, flowers not seen, fruit as in the type. Tabernse- 

 montana subcapitata?, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. $ T. Khasia Mts., alt. 2000 ft., at 

 Nowgong. 



4. R,. microcarpa, Hook. f. ; leaves small oblanceolate acuminate, 

 nerves 8-10 pairs, cymes short branched from the base, drupes ovoid \ in. long. 

 Tabernsemontana microcarpa, Wall. Cat. 1581. 



IBiRMA ; Taongdong (road to Ween-dow), Wallich. 



The specimens are most wretched, consisting of two fragments of branches with 

 "3 or 4 broken leaves and a fruiting cyme from which the solitary drupe (much eaten by 

 insects) is detached. 



5. Xt. decurva, Hook. f. ; leaves small oblanceolate acuminate, cymes 

 -shortly pedtmcled decurved few-flowered, calyx-lobes lanceolate half as long as 

 Ahe broad corolla-tube which is inflated at the top, drupes in. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; Canara and the Concan, Poonah, Stocks ; Mundeel, Ritchie. 



A shrub, 6 ft. ; branches stout, dichotomous, lenticellate, leafy at the tips only. 

 Leaves 4 in a whorl, in crowded whorls, 1-1| by -f in., drying brownish-green. 

 Cymes short, peduncle -|-1 in., 2-6-flowered, sometimes branched from the base ; 

 flowers in. long, white to pink. Calyx-lobes lanceolate, half the length of the 

 corolla-tube. Corolla-lobes rounded, almost as long as the tube. This may be a 

 .state of R. densiflora, but if so it is a very singular one, easily distinguished by the 

 small leaves crowded at the tips of the woody branches, the decurved peduncles,' and 

 mall flowers. 



6. It. micrantha, Hook. f. ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate 

 .acuminate, cymes with long slender erect peduncles few-fld., calyx-lobes tri- 

 angular-ovate, corolla very small tube slightly swollen at the top, lobes small, 

 drupes in. obliquely ovate acute. Ophioxylon micranthum, Wight mss. 



MALABAR; Wight. 



branches rather slender, with minute lenticels. Leaves opposite and 3 in a whorl, 



