640 xciv. APOCYNACEJE.. (J. D. Hooker.) [Rhazya.. 



Corolla salver-shaped, tube cylindric, with reflexed hairs beneath the stamens- 

 within, throat constricted hairy ; lobes 5, short, broad, overlapping to the left. 

 Stamens above the middle of the tube, included ; anthers lanceolate, cells- 

 rounded at the base. Disc annular or obscure. Carpels 2, distinct ; style fili- 

 form, top broad thickened, stigma sometimes furnished with a reflexed mem- 

 brane, top 2-globoss ; ovules many, 2-seriate in each carpel. Follicles 2, erect, 

 slender. Seeds many, subterete or angled and compressed, truncate or winged 

 above and below, albumen fleshy ruminate ; cotyledons oblong, thick, radicle 

 superior. DISTRIB. 2 species, Arabian and Indian. 



R. strict a, Decaisne in Ann. Nat. Sc. ser. 2, iv. 81, and in Jacquem. Voy. 

 Sot. t. Ill ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate acute coriaceous, corolla-lobes ovate mu- 

 cronate. A. DC. Prodr. viii. 386 ; Brand-is For. Fl. 322 ; Boiss. FL Orient, iv. 

 47. Apocyn. Watt. Cat. 7478. 



SCINDE ; Stocks; in the Trans-Indian territory, common; Salt-range, Fleming;. 

 Peshawur, Steivart. DISTRIB. Afghanistan, Beluchistan, Arabia. 



A small glabrous very stout erect sparingly branched leafy shrub. Leaves 3-4 

 by -f in., yellowish and leathery when dry, sessile. Flowers in short axillary, 

 stoutly branched cymes, shortly and stoutly pedicelled ; bracts subulate, persistent. 

 Calyx-lobes acute. Corolla white, tube ^ in., upper half inflated. Follicles erect, 

 parallel, 2-3 by 5- in., slightly compressed, thinly coriaceous. Seeds ^ in. long, an- 

 gularly compressed, shortly winged. There is no specimen of this on the sheet in- 

 Wallich's Herbarium to which his ticket, No. 7478, is attached, but the note on that 

 ticket is " Apocyn. (ex Royleo in <mjus Herbar. adsunt specim. et icon, pict.) viminea,. 

 subaphylla, Doab Hindostanice, 1825," leaves no doubt as to the plant meant ; added 

 to which the icon alluded to, made by Royle's artists, is in the Kew collection of 

 drawings. 



14. VINCA, Linn, 



Erect or procumbent herbs or shrubs. Leaves opposite. Flowers solitary, 

 axillary. Calyx 5-partite, eglandular, segments narrow. Corolla salver-shaped ; 

 tube cylindric, with usually reflexed hairs below the stamens ; throat constricted, 

 hairy or thickened; lobes broad, overlapping to the left. Stamens above the 

 middle of the tube, included ; anthers various. Disc of 2 large glands. Carpels 

 2, distinct ; style filiform, top thick, stigma annulate viscid sometimes with a 

 reflected membrane, tip minute penicillate : ovules 6 or more, 2-seriate in each 

 carpel. Follicles 2, slender, erect or spreading. Seeds subcylindric, truncate at 

 both ends, hilum lateral, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons ovate, radicle long superior. 

 DISTRLB. About 10 species, European, Indian, American, and Madagascarian. 



V. ROSEA, Linn. (V. Gulielmi Waldemarii, Klotzsch in Eeise Pr. Waldem. Bot. t.. 

 70); a West Indian plant, is much cultivated about pagodas, &c. ; it has obovate 

 leaves and rosy flowers 1^-2 in. diam. 



V. pusilla, Murr. in Act. Goett. 1772,66, t. 2, fig. 1; annual, erect, 

 glabrous, branched from the base, leaves lanceolate acuminate, flowers very 

 small subsessile, sepals filiform. A. DC. Prodr. viii. 382 ; Dalz. 8? Gibs. Bomb 

 Fl. 144. V. parviflora, Rets Obs. ii. n. 33; Roxb. Fl. 2nd. ii. 1. Catharan- 

 thus roseus, G. Don Gen, Syst. iv. 05. Rheede Hort. Mai, ix. t. 33. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; Garwhal, alt. 2000 ft., Sir. $ Winterb.; UPPER GANGETIC 

 PLAIN, Royle, &c. Throughout the DECCAN, common. 



An erect, pale-green annual, 1-2 ft. high ; stem and branches acutely 4-angled. 

 Leaves l^-2 by ^- in., membranous, acuminate, margins minutely scabrid, stipulnr- 

 glands subulate ; petiole \ in, or less, slender. Flowers ^ in. long, on short pedicels, 

 white. Corona mouth narrow, hairy; throat glabrous, thickened. Follicles 2-3 in., 

 very slender, diverging, straight, membranous. Seeds j~ in., linear-obloDg, cylindric. 

 rounded at both ends; testa black, many-ribbed, ribs rough. 



