TEACHELOSPEEMUM.] APOCYNACE2E. 41 



linear, crowned with a tuft of long hairs, albumen copious ; cotyledons 

 linear, flat. Species 8, E. Asiatic and Malayan. 



T. fragrans, Hbofe./. in F. B. I. Hi, 667; Wait E. D.; Gamble Man. Ind. 

 Timl). 489 ; Kanjilal For. Fl. 237 ; Collett Fl. 8iml. 313. Ichnocarpus 

 fragrans, Wall. ; Royle III. 270 ; Brandis For. FL 327. 



A tall nearly glabrous scandent shrub ; old stems with tubercled bark, 

 branches pendulous. Leaves 3-5 in. long, ovate or elliptic-lanceolate, 

 bluntly acuminate, thinly coriaceous, shining above, petiole ~ in. 

 long. Peduncles and pedicels slender ; bracts minute, lanceolate. 

 Flowers white or pink, fragrant. Calyx-lobes ovate, acute, with ciliate 

 edges, the length of the corolla-tube. CoroZZa-tube -5-^ in. long 

 pubescent at the base of the lobes and round the mouth. Disk of 5, 

 small erect glands. Follicles 4-9 in. long or more. Seeds f in. long, 

 obtuse at both ends, smooth. 



Dehra Dun, in the Mothronwala swamp and on the banks of the Ee'-nadi. 

 Flowers April-June. DISTBIB. Sub-tropical and temperate Hima- 

 laya up to 7,(JOO ft. from Simla to Sikkim and Bhutan, also in Assam 

 and Upper Burma. 



11 ICHNOCARPUS, K. Br. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 669. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite, nerves distant. Flowers 

 small or minute, in long terminal and axillary paniculate cymes. 

 Calyx 5-fid., glandular within. Corolla salver shaped, throat 

 contracted or villons ; lobes narrowed to an obtuse point, overlapping: 

 to the right, the npper half of each lobe deflexed in bud. Stamens 

 at or below the middle of the corolla-tube ; anthers sagittate, 

 conniving over and adhering to the stigma, cells spurred at the base. 

 Disk free, 5-lobed. Carpels 2, distinct, exserted from the disk, 

 many-ovuled, hairy, style short, stigma ovoid or oblong. Follicles 

 slender, spreading or divaricate. Seeds narrowed at the tip, crowned 

 with a deciduous coma, albumen scanty, cotyledons long and flat. 

 Species 5 or 6, in India, Malaya and Australia. 



I. frutescens, E. Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. i (1809), 62 ; Ait. Hort. Keiv. 

 ed. 2, ii, 69; Royle III. 270; Brandis For. Fl. 327 ; F. B. I. iii t 669 ; 

 WattE.D.; Kanjilal For. Fl. 286 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 489; Cooke 

 Fl. Bomb, ii, 142; Prain Beng. PI. 680. Vern. Kali dudhi, lelkamu 

 (Saharanpur), bamar (Gorakhpur). 



An evergreen climbing shrub ; young branches inflorescence and under 

 surface of leaves rusty-tomentose. Leaves variable, 2-3 in. long, 

 elliptic-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, usually rounded 

 a the base, dark-green glabrous and shining above, pale and more or less 

 pubescent beneath, with slender reticulations between the main lateral 



