Nerium.] xcrr. APOCYNACE.S;. (J. D. Hooker.) C55 



subgloboso. Follicles elongate, cylindric, straight, hard, appressed. Seed* 

 oblong, villous, coma terminal caducous, albumen fleshy; cotyledons flat, 

 thickish, radicle superior. DISTREB. Species 2 or 3, Mediterranean region, 

 N. Asian and Japanese. 



N. odorum, Soland. in Ilort. Kew. ed. i. v. i. 297 ; flowers scented, ap- 

 pendages of the corolla cleft into 4-7 linear segments, spurs of anthers linear 

 twice as long as the cells. Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 48; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 420; 

 Ro.i-b. Fl. 2nd. ii. 2 ; Brandts For. Fl. 328; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 114 ; Targ. 

 Tozz. Rap. 28, 29, t. 3 ; Wall. Cat. 1624 ; Bot. Mag. 1799, 2032 ; Bot. Reg. t. 

 74 (jft. double). N. odoratum, Lamk. Encycl. Hi. 456. N. latifolium and N. 

 indicum, Mitt I c. ed. S.Rheede Hort. Mai. ix. t. 1, 2. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; from Nipal -westwards, ascending to 6500 ft. in Murree. 

 CENTRAL INDIA. SCIND. DISTRIB. Afghanistan, Japan. 



A large erect stout shrub. Leaves 4-6 in., linear-lanceolate, thickly coriaceous, 

 acuminate, midrib very stout ; nerves numerous, slender, horizontal ; petiole very 

 short. Flowers li- in. diam., sweet-scented, rose white or yellow. Sepals subulate- 

 lanceolate. Follicles 6-9 in. Very similar to and perhaps only a variety of the com- 

 mon JV. Oleander of the Mediterranean region, which extends eastwards to Persia. 



25. STROPHANTHUS, DC. 



Small trees or shrubs, often climbing. Leaves opposite. Flowers usually 

 large, in terminal cymes. Calyx 5-partite, glandular within. Corolla funnel- 

 shaped, tube short, throat large, campanulate, with 10 free or connate scales; 

 lobes overlapping to the right, produced into long or short tails, rarely ovate acute. 

 Stamens at the top of the tube, included, filaments short ; anthers sagittate, 

 tips filiform, conniving around and adhering to the stigma, cells spurred at the 

 base. Disc 0. Carpels 2, distinct, many-ovuled, glabrous; style filiform, 

 rugose, with cellular papillae, tip dilated, stigma columnar or conical, simple or 

 2-fid. Follicles oblong or elongate, hard, spreading (parallel in S. Jackianus). 

 Seeds compressed, fusiform, narrowed into a feathery tail, or with a sessile coma, 

 base with a deciduous tuft of hairs. DISTRIB. Species about 18, tropical 

 Asiatic and African, and 1 S. African. 



* Lobes of the corolla exceeding the throat in length. 



1. S. dichotomize, DC. in Bull. Soc. PhU. iii. 123; glabrous, leaves 

 elliptic-oblong or obovate obtuse acute or apiculate, cymes few-fld., tails of 

 corolla-lobes 5-7 in. A. DC. Prodr. viii. 417; Miguel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 441. 

 S. scandens, Roem. # Sch. Syst. iv. 412. L. longicaudatus and Grimthii, Wight 

 Ic. t. 1299, 1300; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 191. S. pentaphyUus, Griff. Notul. iv. 78. 

 S. caudatus, Kurz in Joum. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 257. S. Horsfieldianus, Miguel 

 FL Ind. Bat. ii. 442. Echites caudata, Burm. Fl. Ind. 68, t. 26. Nerium cau- 

 datum, Lamk. Diet. N. scandens, Lour. Fl. Coch. i. 143 (ex A. DC.). 



TENASSERIM (Kurz). MALACCA; Griffith, Maingay. SINGAPORE and PENANO 

 (drawings). DISTRIB. Java. 



An erect shrub. Branches stout; bark dark, dotted with lenticels. Leaves 3-5 J 

 by 2-3 in., rather coriaceous, glossy above; nerves 6-8 pairs, spreading, arching and 

 joining far within the margin ; petiole \ in. Cymes much shorter than the leaves, 

 dichotomous. Sepals subulate from an ovate base. Corolla-tube and throat f-1 in. 

 long, whitish, tails purple ; scales cleft to the base. Anther-tips very long and slender. 

 Follicles not seen (as taken from a drawing, very large, divergent, 8 by 2 in., broadest 

 at the very base where united, tapering to a broad rounded point, terete smooth green). 



2. S- Wallicliii, A. DC. Prodr. viii. 418; glabrous, leaves elliptic 

 oblong or obovate acuminate cuspidate or obtuse, cymes many-fld., tails of corolla- 



