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lateral nerves 6-9 pairs ; petioles ^-amplexicaul at the "base. Cymes 

 few-flowered ; peduncles about 1$ in. long, pedicels slender. Flowers 

 pure white, fragrant at night, buds clavate. Calyx-lobes broadly ovate, 

 acute or rounded. Corolla-tube -1 in. long, dilated round the anthers , 

 lobes about as long as the tube, obliquely ovate, obtuse, crisped on one 

 margin. Anthers acuminate. Carpels glabrous. Follicles 1-2 in. long, 

 spreading, recurved at the acuminate apex, 1-3-keeled, opening out 

 flat when ripe. Seeds 3-6, oblong, striated, embedded in a red pulpy 

 aril. 



Sub-Himalayan tract from Dehra Dun eastwards. Flowers May-August, 

 fruiting during the cold season. DISTBIB. Garhwal, E. Bengal, 

 Khasia Hills, Assam and Burma, also found in Trinidad. An orna- 

 mental shrub, much cultivated in gardens. The flowers are dimorphic 

 as regards the length of the style and the position of the anthers. 

 Under cultivation the flowers often become double. 



7. VALLABIS, Burn*. ; FL Brifc. Ind. iii, 650. 



Twining shrubs. Leaves opposite, minutely dotted. Flowers white 

 in axillary or pseudo-axillary cymes or fascicles. Calyx 5-partite- 

 glandular or not within, segments narrow. Corolla salver-shape or 

 subrotate, tube short, throat naked ; lobes broad, contorted, over- 

 lapping to the right. Stamens attached at the top of the corolla- 

 tube ; filaments very short, clavate ; anthers exserted, conniving in 

 a cone and adherent to the stigma, connective with a dorsal gUnd, 

 cells produced into rigid basal spurs. Disk annular or cupular, 

 with 6 lobes or scales. Carpels 2, at first connate, many-ovuled ; 

 style filiform, pubescent ; stigma thick, obscurely annulate near the 

 base. Fruit oblong, acuminate, the carpels at length separating. 

 Seeds 2-seriate, ovate, acuminate, compressed, tip oomose, albumen 

 scanty. Species 5 or 6, in Trop. Asia and Malaya. 



V. Heynei, Spreng. 8yst. i, 635; F. B. I. iii, 165; Watt E. D- ; Cooke 

 fl.Bomd.fi, 136; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 486; Collett Fl. 8iml. 311, 

 Kanjildl For. Fl. 234; Prain Beng. PI. 675. V. dichotomy Wall. ; Eoyle 

 III. 270 ; Brandis For. Fl. 327. Echites dichotoma, Roseb. Fl. Ind. ii, 19. 

 Vern. Dudhi lei. 



A large twining shrub with aah-coloured bark. Leaves usually glabrous, 

 gland-dotted, 2-4 in. long, elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 base acute, upper surface shining ; petiole -f in. long, with glands in 

 the axils. Flowers f in. across, in lax pubescent cymes, creamy white, 

 fragrant ; peduncles slender, pubescent or glabrous ; pedicels usually 

 decurved, pubescent; bracts linear-lanceolate, acute, pubescent- 

 Calyx pubescent ; lobes ^ in. long, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or sub- 

 acute, ciliate. Corolla % in. across, minutely pubescent outside, tube | 



