652 xciv. APOCTNACEJ]. (J. D, Hooker.) \_VaUari, 



glandular at the base (Maingay). Corolla-tube funnel-shaped, ^ in. long, limb \ in. 

 diam., lobes inflexed at the tip in bud. Anthers half-exserted, with a narrow lanceo- 

 late gland on the back. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



V. ASSAMICA, Griff. Notul \v. 77 ; this agrees fairly well with the character of V. 

 Heynei, but I find no specimens of this species in Griffith's herbarium from Assam. 

 His habitat is woods at Bishenath. 



. V.? ANCEPS, Wall. Cat. 1622; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 400 (without description}; from 

 Tavoy. This is not a Vallaris, but is in too imperfect a state for determination. Kurz 

 (Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 254) says that it seems hardly referable to Apocynece. 



22. POTTSIA, Hook, et Am. 



An evergreen climber. Leaves opposite, nerves distant. Flowers in lax 

 terminal and axillary panicled cymes. Calyx small, 5-partite, glandular within. 

 Corolla salver-shaped ; tube cylindric ; throat constricted, naked ; lobes over- 

 lapping to the right. Stamens at the top of the tube, filaments hairy ; anthers 

 exserted, sagittate, conniving over and adhering to the stigma, cells with basal 

 empty spurs, Disc deeply 5-fid, lobes lanceolate, much longer than the ovary. 

 Carpels 2, distinct, villous, many-ovuled, included in the disc ; style slender, 

 thickened in the middle and top, stigma conical. Follicles elongate, slender, 

 beaded. Seeds linear, elongate, coma deciduous, albumen copious ; cotyledons 

 linear, flat, radicle superior. DISTBIB. Species 2 or 3, Eastern Asiatic and 

 Malayan. 



P. cantonensis, Hook, fy Arn. Sot. Seech. Voy. 199, t. 43 ; Benth. Fl. 

 Hongk. 222 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 190. P. Hookeriana, Wight Ic. i. 1306 bis. P. 

 ovata, A. DC. Prodr. viii. 442. Parsonsia ovata, Wall. Cat. 1630. Teysmannia 

 laxiflora and Hookeriana, Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 455, 456, and Parapottsia, 

 Addenda, 1080. Vallaris laxiflora, Blume Bijd. 1043. Euthodon paniculate, 

 Griff. Notul. iv. 84 ; Ic. PL Asiat. t. 458, fig. 2. 



SILHET ; De Silva. ASSAM ; Jenkins. CACHAB ; Keenan, TENASSEBIM ; Kurz. 

 MALACCA ; Maingay. DISTRIB. Java, S. China. 



Branches slender, smooth, cylindric; twigs puberulous. Leaves 3-4 by 1^-2 in., 

 elliptic-ovate or ovate, acuminate, base rounded or subcordate, nerves 4-6 pairs ; 

 petiole slender, 1-1^- in. Cymes drooping, long-peduncled, very many-fld. ; branches 

 slender, ultimate with racemose flowers ; pedicels slender, in. ; bracts minute, 

 ovate. Sepals broadly ovate, obtuse. Corolla ^^ in., glabrous, rose-coloured, tube 

 broad obtusely angled, lobes short ovate. Follicles 1 ft., flexuous, smooth, thinly 

 coriaceous. Seeds 1 in., very slender, glabrous, coma as long. Griffith in his generic 

 character of Euthodon describes the throat of the corolla as without scales; in the 

 specific he mentions 5 glands in the sinus of the lobes ; these I do not find in his 

 specimens. 



23. WRIGHTIA, Br. 



Shrubs or small trees, with often slender cord-like branches. .Leaves opposite. 

 Flowers red, white or yellow, in terminal or subaxillary sessile cymes. Calyx 

 short, 5-partite, with glands or scales inside. Corolla salver-shaped, tube 

 cylindric, usually short, throat with 1-2 series of usually fimbriate scales; lobes 

 overlapping to the left. Stamens at the top of the tube, filaments short dilated ; 

 anthers exserted, sagittate, conniving around and adhering to the stigma, cells 

 spurred at the base. Disc 0. Carpels 2, free or connate, many-ovuled ; style 

 filiform, stigma ovoid with usually a toothed basal ring. Follicles linear, erect, 

 connate or distinct. Seeds linear, compressed, tip narrowed naked, base with a 

 deciduous coma, albumen scanty or ; cotyledons broad, convolute, radicle 



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