Alyxia.'} xciv. APOCYNACEJU. (J. D. Hooker.) 635:. 



ovate, acute. Corolla-tube about twice as long as the calyx ; lobes oblong, obtuse, as., 

 long as the tube. Ripe carpels in. long, stoutly stipitate, ellipsoid, obtuse, smooth. 

 Habit of a Chilocarpus. 



2. A. coriacea, 11 'all. in Roxb. Fl. Ind ed. Wall. Carey, ii. 541, and 

 Cat. 9065; bark red-brown, leaves opposite very coriaceous obovate obtuse 

 shining above nerves ascending 1 , cymes very short and shortly peduncled, bracts 

 and calyx-lobes obtuse. Ilunteria ? coriacea, Wall. Cat. 1610. 



PBNANG ; Wallich, Porter. 



Branches very stout. Leaves 2-4 by 1-H in., narrowed into the petiole, yellow-., 

 brown when dry, nerves raised in the upper surface, beneath opaque dull yellow 

 with the nerves very faint; petiole 4-f in. Cymes in., few fld., bracts very small.. 

 Flowers \ in. long. Calyx very coriaceous, lobes in., acute, ciliolate. Corolla-tube 

 inflated in the middle, constricted at the mouth, with 5 2-lobed glands, lobes small, 

 oblong falcate. Fruit not seen. 



3. A. lucida, Watt, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Wall. $ Carey, ii. 540; bark 

 red-brown, cymes and shoots pubescent, leaves opposite or 3-4 in a whorl 

 obovate obtuse or acute very pubescent shining above and almost so beneath,, 

 nerves nearly horizontal, cymes very short and shortly peduncled, corolla in. 

 long. A. Gynopogon, Wall. Cat. 1605. 



SINGAPORE ; Wallich. MALACCA, (cultivated) ; Maingay. 



Branches very stout, young 4-angled. Leaves 3-4 by l~l in., pale, hard and' 

 thick when dry, narrowed into a very short petiole ; nerves hardly raised on either 

 surface. Cymes % in. long, on thick peduncles, rarely longer than the petioles ; bracts 

 oblong, pubescent ; flowers yellow, fragrant. Calyx deeply 5-cleft, segments acute. 

 Corolla-tube in., pubescent within ; lobes as long, oblong. Ovary villous. Ripe 

 carpels in. long, broadly elliptic, smooth, stipitate. 



4. A . pilosa, Miguel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 408 ; branches leaves beneath and' 

 cymes softly pubescent or tomentose, leaves 3-4 in a whorl elliptic-lanceolate- 

 very coriaceous shining above, nerves very many horizontal, cymes shortly 

 peduncled, flowers villous. 



MALACCA ; Mt. Ophir (Herb. Hook.}. DISTRIB. Sumatra, Borneo. 



Branches stout ; bark pale. Leaves 3-5 by l-l in., drying green, narrowed into, 

 short stout petioles in., midrib stout beneath ; nerves very close, faint on both, 

 surfaces. Peduncle equalling or shortly exceeding the petiole, very stout, bracts, 

 small ; flowers subsessile, crowded, ^ in. long. Calyx-segments ovate-lanceolate, 

 obtuse, erect, one-fourth shorter than the corolla. Corolla-tube coriaceous, narrowly 

 campanulate above, hairy within and without, lobes very short, rounded, glabrous 

 within. Fruit not seen. I am a little doubtful about the Malacca locality of this 

 plant, that given above is in Sir W. Hooker's handwriting on the sheet ; that on a 

 specimen, evidently of the same collecting, in Bentham's Herbarium, is marked- 

 " Penang, Hooker, 1857." 



5. A. pumila, Hook. f. ; dwarf, glabrous, leaves opposite or 3 in a whorl 

 elliptic-lanceolate obtusely acuminate very coriaceous shining above, nerves very 

 many horizontal, cymes subsessfle few-fld. 



MALACCA; Mt. Ophir, Lobb, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1053). 



A small slender shrub (apparently scandent, Maingay) ; branches slender, young 

 4-angled with granulate red bark. Leaves 1-2 by - in., drying greenish, narrowed' 

 into slender petioles, ^ in., midrib prominent beneath, nerves very close and faint on 

 both surfaces. Cymes 3-6-fld. ; peduncle very short ; bracts minute ; flowers shortly 

 pecticelled, quite glabrous, J in. long. Calyx-segments small, ovate-lanceolate, thick, 

 subacute. Corolla-tube inflated below the constricted mouth, throat villous within 

 lobes small, rounded. Fruit 3 in. long, between globose and ellipsoid, apiculate ; . 

 pedicel slender. 



