670 xciv. APOcrNACKJJ. (J. D. Hooker.) [Ichnocarpus* 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; Sirmore to Nepal, alt. 1-2000 ft. UPPER GTANGETIC PLAIN ; 

 from Delhi to BENGAL, A SSAM, SILHET, CHITTAQONG, BIRMA, the DECCAN PENINSULA and 

 CEYLON. DISTRIB. Java, Australia. 



An extensive climber. Leaves very variable, 2-3 by f-l in.; petiole % in. 

 Cymes 1-3 in., axillary and in terminal panicles, rusty-pubescent ; branches short, 

 trichotomously divided or 3-flowered; pedicels longer or shorter than the corolla. 

 Calyx-lobes ovate, obtuse or subacute, eglandular. Corolla about 5- in. diam., purplish, 

 twice as long as the calyx ; lobes twice as long as the tube, falcate, acuminate, mouth 

 and margins sparingly bearded. Disc-glands 5, erect, slender, capitate, much longer 

 than the hairy ovary. Style very short. Follicles 3-6 by in., very slender, cylin- 

 dric, curved, acute, " sometimes moniliform as in Ecdysanthera" Kurz, divergent at 

 an acute angle ; pericarp thinly coriaceous. Seeds \ in., very slender, not beaked ;. 

 coma as long, scanty, white. /. radicans, Wall., is the young state of the plant. 



VAR. parvifolia ; leaves 1-1^ by in. oblong or linear-oblong, cymes shorter. 

 Coimbatore, Wight, &c. 



2. X. ovatifolius, A. DC. Prodr. viii. 435 ; glabrous or branches and 

 leaves beneath more or less tomentose, leaves orbicular elliptic-oblong or ovate 

 obtuse acute or cuspidate, peduncle and pedicels pubescent, corolla-tube pubes- 

 cent, mouth puberulous. I. affinis, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. fy T. Echites affinis, 

 Roem. 8r Sch. I. latifolia, Herb. Ham. in Wall Cat. *1652. Springia indica, 

 Muell $ Van Heurck in Plant. Nov. Van Heurck, 143. 



SILHET and KHASIA MTS. ; alt. 1-4000 ft. MALACCA ; Griffith, Maingay (Kew 

 Distrib. 107/>, 1103). DISTRIB. Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes, Philippine Islds. 



Very closely allied to /. frutescens, and perhaps a variety of that plant, but besides 

 the characters indicated the leaves are much larger and broader, and the disc-glands 

 are not capitate. The flowers occur in a monstrous state (through insect-puncture), 

 the corolla being enlarged below into a globose form \ in. diam., crowned with a rigid 

 erect tubular beak. This state occurs in Wallich's Herbarium, under No. 2015, from 

 Tavoy (which number should apply to a Dendrobium), and it is Maingay's 1103 (Kew 

 Distrib.) from Malacca. 



3. I. pubiflorus, ITook.f.', glabrous, with rusty-tomentose cymes, leaver 

 elliptic obtusely acuminate, cymes very shortly peduncled dense-flowered, calyx- 

 segments oblong equalling the glabrous corolla-tube, corolla-throat pubescent, 

 lobes linear-oblong-, base gibbous. 



KHASIA MTS. ; Griffith (a solitary specimen). 



Branch stout glabrous, bark dark brown. Leaves 3 by 1^- in., rather coriaceous ; 

 petiole ^ in. Cymes ^-f in. long and broad, branched from near the base, peduncle 

 pedicels and bracts densely tomentose ; flowers \ in. long, corolla as broad. Calyx 

 cleft to the base into linear-oblong segments. Corolla-tube short ; lobes obliquely 

 ovate, obtuse. Anthers acuminate. Ovary villous above, glabrous below. 



39. MICROCHITZSS, Miguel. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite, nerves distant. Floiuers very small, in 

 axillary and terminal lax thyrsoid or brachiate panicled cymes. Calyx small, 

 6-fid or -partite, glandular within, segments obtuse. Corolla campanulate or 

 salver-shaped, tube short ; lobes falcate, overlapping to the right, very oblique, 

 upper half deflexed in bud. Stamens near the bottom of the tube, filaments 

 short ; anthers sagittate, conniving around and adhering to the stigma, cells 

 spurred at the base. Disc annular or cupular, entire or lobed. Carpels 2, 

 longer than the disc, distinct, many-ovuled, hirsute ; style short, top turbinate 

 or globose, stigma clavate. Follicles spreading or recurved, hard, subterete. 

 Seeds oblong, compressed, not beaked ; coma terminal, caducous. DISTRIB. 

 Species 4, Malayan. 



