Anodendron.~\ xcrv. APOCYNACEJ:. (J. D. Hooker.) 669 



2. A. Candolleanum, Wight Ic. t. 1309 (ere/, fruit and seeds) ; quite 

 glabrous, leaves elliptic obtusely cuspidate thickly coriaceous, nerves 8-10 pairs, 

 petiole 1 in., calyx-lobes acute. Miquel Fl. Ind. Hat. ii. 465. A. rubescens, 

 Teijsm. fy Binnend. Cat. Hort. Bog or. 



MALACCA ; Capt. Wight, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1087). DISTHIB. Borneo. 



Very similar in inflorescence and flowers to A. paniculatum, but petioles longer, 

 leaves very different in texture, sepals acute, corolla-throat nearly glabrous, style 

 distinct, stigma smaller, follicles much thinner-walled, acute, and seeds (unripe) 

 apparently much more slender, 



3. A. rhinosporum, Thwaites Enum. 195; quite glabrous, leaves 

 coriaceous elliptic-obJong or -lanceolate obtuse or obtusely acuminate, nerves 

 very slender, petiole in., flowers ~ in. long. 



CEYLON ; Ambagamowa and Matuvatte districts, Thwaites. 



A much smaller and narrower-leaved plant than either of the foregoing, with a 

 smaller panicle. Leaves 2-4 by ^-l in. ; petiole ^-^ in. Follicles 3-5 in. Seeds 

 1 in. 



4. A. pauciflorum, Hook.f. ; quite glabrous, leaves oblong or oblong- 

 lanceolate obtusely acuminate, nerves very slender, cymes small short axillary 

 puberulous few-fld., flower in. long. 



PENANG ; Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1101). 



Branches smooth, glabrous. Leaves 4-5 by l|-2 in., red-brown when dry ; 

 nerves 8-10 pairs, slightly arched, very slender; petiole in., stout. Cymes much 

 shorter than the leaves ; peduncle stout, -1 in, ; bracts ovate, crowded ; pedicels 

 very short. Calyx-Lobes obtuse. Corolla glabrous, lobes acute in bud, strongly 

 twisted : tube about equalling the linear-lanceolate falcate obtuse lobes ; throat 

 pubescent. Style and stigma together pyriform, seated on the glabrous carpels. 

 Follicles 4-5 by f-1 in., horizontal, straight, tapering from a rounded base to the 

 subacute points, terete, smooth, pericarp thick. Seeds in. long, ovoid, beaked, flat, 

 glabrous ; coma three times as long, brown. 



38. ICHNOCARFUS, Br. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite, serves distant. Flowers agnail or minute, 

 in long terminal and axillary paniculate cymes. Calyx 5-fid, glandular or not 

 within. Corolla salver-shaped, throat contracted or villous ; lobes narrowed to 

 the obtuse point, overlapping to the right, upper half deflexed in bud. Stamens 

 at or below the middle of the tube ; anthers sagittate, conniving over and 

 adhering to the stigma, cells spurred at the base. Disc free, 6-lobed. Carpels 

 2, distinct, exserted from the disc, rnany-ovuled, hairy ; style short, top obconic, 

 stigma columnar. Follicles spreading or divaricate, slender and subterete or 

 rigid and compressed. Seeds narrowed at the tip, coma deciduous, albumen 

 copious ; cotyledons long, flat, radicle short, superior. DISTRIB. Species 5 or 6, 

 Indian, Malayan and Australian. 



LI. frutescens, Br. in Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii. 69 ; glabrous or branches 

 and leaves beneath more or less softly tomentose, leaves elliptic oblong or lan- 

 ceolate acute, cymes pubescent, corolla-tube glabrous, mouth villous. Benth. 

 Fl. Austral, iv. 315 ; Wight Ic. t. 430 ; Wall. Cat. 1674 ; Brand. For. Fl. 327 ; 

 Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 113 ; Ualz. # Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 147 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 

 185. I. radicans, Wall. Cat. 1676. I. dasycalyx, Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 449. 

 I. leptodictyus, F. Muell. Fragmenta, vi. 118. Echites frutescens, Wall. Cat. 

 1674. Apocynum frutescens, Linn. Lyama, Roxb. in As. Res. i. 261. Burin. 

 ft. Zeyl. 23, t. 12, fig. 1. 



