328 Liv. APOCYNE.E. [Vallaris. 



1, 2-celled, surrounded at the base by a 5-fid ciliate, cup-shaped nectary ; 

 style filiform pubescent ; ovules numerous. Fruit large, oblong, 2-celled, 

 valves thick fibrous. Seeds numerous pendulous, with a tuft of hairs at 

 the hilum, radicle superior ; albumen scanty. 



South India, Bengal, and Central India. Burma and Ceylon. In the sub- 

 Himalayan tract west to the Ganges. Cultivated in gardens. Fl. Dec-April. 



11. CHONEMORPHA, G.Don. 



1. C. macrophylla, G. Don ; Wight Ic. t. 432. Syn. Echites macro- 

 phylla, Koxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 13. Vern. Gar badero, Kamaon. 



A large climbing milky shrub. Leaves opposite, large, rotundate or 

 obovate, 8-12 in. long, 6-9 in. broad, tomentose beneath. Flowers large, 

 white, fragrant, coriaceous, in terminal corymbose pedunculate cymes ; 

 bracts large ovate, deciduous. Calyx with glands inside at the base. Cor- 

 olla hypocrateriform, limb 2-3 in. across. Ovaries two distinct, surrounded 

 by a cup-shaped thick nectary, style 1. Capsule long, pendulous, 12 in. 

 long, quadrangular, 2-valved. Seeds numerous compressed pendulous, 

 narrowed into a short beak above, and bearing a tuft of long white silky 

 hairs albumen scanty, radicle superior. 



South India, Bengal, Nepal and Kamaon, Burma, Ceylon, and Indian Archi- 

 pelago. Fl. April-Sept. The milk is said to yield a kind of caoutchouc. 



12. NERIUM, Linn. 



Shrubs with white milk. Leaves entire, coriaceous, opposite or whorled. 

 Flowers large, in terminal cymes. Calyx-lobes with numerous fleshy 

 linear glands at their base inside. Corolla-tube short, turbinate or 

 campanulate, lobes spreading, unequal-sided ; corona of laciniated appen- 

 dices opposite to the lobes. Anthers sagittate, on short broad filaments, 

 continued beyond the anthers into a long hairy tail-like appendix, 

 thickened and contorted at the top. Ovary of 2 carpels, more or less 

 cohering, style 1, stigma shaped like a truncate cone. Fruit a cylindrical 

 capsule when ripe, dehiscing septicidally into 2 many-seeded follicles. 

 Seeds pendulous, tomentose all over and with a tuft of hairs at the hilum ; 

 albuminous, radicle superior. 



1. N. odorum, Solander ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 2 ; Bot. Mag. t. 2032. 

 Sans. Karavira ; Pers. Kharzahra. Vern. Kamra,kaner, ganira, ganhira, 

 Pb.; Kaniyur, Kamaon. 



A large glabrous shrub. Leaves in whorls of 3, linear-lanceolate, 4-6 

 in. long, narrowed into a short petiole, under surface uneven and irreg- 

 ularly pitted, midrib very prominent, main lateral nerves numerous, par- 

 allel, transverse. Flowers scented, rose-coloured white or red ; appendices 

 of corona cleft into numerous filiform segments, or trifid, the lateral seg- 

 ments linear, the centre one short-triangular. Fruit linear, 6-9 in. long. 



Common in North-West and Central India, Sindh, Beluchistan and Afghanis- 





