Ichnocarpus.] LIV. APOCYNE^E. 327 



Flowers in compact cymes, forming elongated panicles ; corolla- 

 tube barely | in. long 1. /. frutescens. 



Flowers in lax pedunculate corymbose cymes; corolla- tube \ in. 



long 2. I. fragrans. 



1. I. frutescens, E. Brown ; Wight Ic. t. 430. Syn. Echites frutes- 

 cens, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 12. Vern. Dudhi, Kamaon. 



A twining shrub ; branchlets, inflorescence and under side of leaves with 

 rust -coloured pubescence. Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate -lanceolate, 

 acuminate. Flowers small (white, inodorous, Eoxb., greenish white, 

 sweet-scented, Voigt Hortus, 523), on short pedicels, in compact short, 

 trichotomous, pedunculate cymes, forming elongated leafy panicles. Calyx 

 with small basal glands. Corolla hypocrateriform, tube barely \ in. long, 

 lobes lanceolate, twisted, hairy along the upper face. Ovaries distinct, 

 surrounded by 5 distinct hypogynous scales, as long as ovaries ; style 1. 

 Fruit of 2 distinct linear, slender follicles, 2-3 in. long. Seeds numer- 

 ous, pendulous, a long tuft of hairs at the hilum. 



South and Central India, Bengal, Burma. In north-west India known to ex- 

 tend as far west as Delhi in the plains, andto the Sutlej in the sub-Himalayan 

 tract. Indian Archipelago and Queensland. The root has been used as a sub- 

 stitute for sarsaparilla. 



2. I. fragrans, Wall. \ DC. Prodr. viii. 435. Syn. (probably) Blabe- 

 ropus lucidus, A. DC. ; Alstonia lucida, Don Fl. Nep. 131. Vern. Dudhi, 

 Kamaon. 



A climbing shrub ; glabrous, but branchlets, petioles and under side of 

 leaves often hairy. Leaves opposite, subcoriaceous, shining above, ellip- 

 tic-oblong, acuminate, blade 4-5 in., petiole J in. long. Flowers on slen- 

 der pedicels, in lax compound trichotomous pedunculate glabrous corym- 

 bose terminal and axillary cymes. Corolla-tube -g- in. long, 2-thirds of its 

 length narrow-tubular, suddenly widened above into a campanulate mouth; 

 lobes oblong, nearly as long as tube, hairy on the upper side near the base. 

 Fruit of 2 distinct linear follicles, about 6 in. long, with numerous pendu- 

 lous seeds, not rostrate, a tuft of hairs at the hilum. 



North- West Himalaya, Kashmir to Nepal, ascending to 6000 ft. Bhutan, As- 

 sam. Fl. April-June. Somewhat similar to Parechites Thunbergii, A. Gray 

 (Rhynchospermum jasminoides, Lindl.), from Japan and China. 



10. VALLARIS, Burm. 



1. V. dichotoma, Wall. ; Wight Ic. t. 438. Syn. Echites dichotoma, 

 Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 19. Vern. Dudhi, Kamaon. 



A large twining shrub ; bark ash-coloured, glabrous, inflorescence only 

 pubescent. Leaves opposite, petiolate, elliptic - oblong, acuminate ; a 

 circle of small cylindric glands at the insertion of the leaves. Flowers 

 white, fragrant, on slender pedicels, in axillary, 3- 10 -flowered cymes. 

 Corolla-tube short, cylindrical, limb large, spreading, f in. across. Ovary 



