668 



xciv. APOCTNACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Trachelospermum*. 



f in. long, slender, compressed, obtuse at both ends, pale, smooth, coma as long,, 

 white. 



2. T. gracilipes, Hook.f. ; glabrous, leaves elliptic acute, cymes loosely 

 panicled, peduncle and pedicels capillary, calyx-segments ovate or lanceolate,, 

 corolla-lobes and throat glabrous, anther- tips exserted. 



KHASIA and JYNTEA MTS. ; Lobb. ASSAM ; Gowahatty, Simons. 

 Very similar to T. fragrans, but differing in the form of the leaf point, in the 

 more slender cymes, and notably in the glabrous corolla and exserted anther-tips. 



** Cymes short-peduncled, in numerous axils. Corolla-tube short. 



3. T. axillare, Hook. f. ; quite glabrous, leaves oblanceolate obovate or 

 elliptic-oblong abruptly caudate-acuminate, cymes very shortly peduncled, sepals- 

 rounded, shorter than the glabrous corolla. Rhynchospermum 5, Herb. Ind. 

 Or. Hook.f. $ T. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA; alt. 4-6000 ft., J. D. H. 



A stout arboreous climber. Leaves 3-5 by 1-H in., rather coriaceous, tip | in. 

 long. Cymes 1 in. diam. ; peduncle ^ in., pedicels rather longer, stout. Sepals 

 iberulous, half the length of the corolla-tube. Corolla dull purple ; tube angular, 

 in. long ; lobes linear-oblong, nearly straight, obtuse ; mouth and throat glabrous. 

 imens included. Glands glabrous. Ovary pubescent ; style very short, stout. 

 Follicles 6-8 by \ in., curved, cylindric, tomentose. Seeds slender, % in. long ; coma 

 2 in., copious, pale brown. Buds more obtuse and lobes less twisted to the left 

 than in the typical species. 



37. ANODENDRON, A. DC. 



Climbing glabrous shrubs. Leaves opposite, nerves distant arched. Flowersr 

 in axillary or axillary and terminal slender panicled wide spreading cymes. 

 Calyx 5-cleft ; segments obtuse, eglandular within. Corolla salver-shaped, 

 mouth contracted ; lobes narrow, overlapping to the right, twisted to the left. 

 Stamens below the middle of the tube ; anthers sagittate, conniving round and 

 adherent to the stigma, cells shortly spurred at the base. Disc cupular. 

 Carpels 2, distinct, sunk in the disc, and attached to it by their backs at the base, 

 many-ovuled ; style very short, top cupular, stigma thick conic. Follicles diverg- 

 ing, acuminate, hard. Seeds ovoid or oblong, compressed, beaked, tipped with 

 a long coma. DISTKIB. Species 7, Asiatic and Malayan. 



1. A. paniculatum, A. DC. Prodr. viii. 444; quite glabrous, leaves 

 large elliptic or oblong obtusely cuspidate thinly coriaceous, nerves 12-15 pairs, 

 calyx-lobes obtuse. Daly. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 147 ; Thivaites Enum. 194 ; Kurz 

 For. Fl ii. 188 ; Wight Ic. t. 1309, fruit and seeds only. Echites paniculata, 

 Roxl. Fl Ind. ii. 17 ; Wight Ic. t. 396. E. coriacea, Wall Cat. 1586. E. 

 manubriata and polyantha, Wall Cat. 1663, 1664. Gymnema nepalense, ? 

 Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI 120 (ex Dalz. fy Gibs.^.Rheede Hort. Mai ix. t. 8. 



From SILHET to MAETABAN. DECCAN PENINSULA ; on the "Western Ghats from 

 the Concan southwards. CEYLON ; common up to 2000 ft. DISTKIB. Java, Timor, 

 Philippine Islds. 



An immense climber. Leaves 4-8 by 1^-3 in. ; petiole in. Cymes 2-10 in. 

 long and broad, repeatedly 3-chotomously branched; branches brachiate, filiform; 

 flowers 3-nate ; pedicels short; bracts ovate. Calyx-lobes minute. Corolla, ^ in. long, 

 yellowish white, lobes twice as long as the tube, narrow, falcate, obtuse, throat 

 villous. Stigma subsessile. Follicles 5-6 in., straight, narrowed from a base f in. 

 diam. to the obtuse point, terete, woody. Seeds few, 1|- in. long, flat ; beak long 

 slender ; coma white, 2 in. long. 



