Cl. 8.] APOCINE.&. 109 



either naked or feathery, imbricated, in many rows, 

 over one side of a lateral, unconnected, flat Recepta- 

 cle, lying along the inside of the Follicle, near it's su- 

 ture. Embryo flat, in a thin fleshy Albumen. Plants 

 herbaceous, shrubby, or arboreous, generally milky. 

 Leaves opposite or alternate, with fringed axillary 

 glands, not always evident."' 



Sect. 1. Germens 2. Follicles 2. Seeds not fea- 

 thery. Vmca, fig. 186, Matelea Aubl., Ochrosia 

 Juss., Tabern&montana, Cameraria and Plumieria. 



Sect. 2. Germ, and Follic. 2. Seeds feathery. Ne- 

 rium, Echites, Ceropegia, Pergularia, fig. 185, Sta- 

 pelia, Periploca, Apocynum, Cynanchum and Ascle- 

 pias. 



Sect. 3. Germen simple. Fruit pulpy, rarely cap- 

 sular. Witttighbeja Schreb. Gen. 162, (comprising 

 Ambclania and Pacouria of Aubl.) Alamanda, M- 

 lodlnm, Gynopogon, Rauwolfia, Ophiorylon, Cerbera 

 and Carissa. 



Sect. 4. Genera akin to ApDcinea, not milky. 

 Strychnos, including Ignatia of Linn., Theophrastci> 

 Anassa Juss., Fagrtea Thunb. and Gelsemium Juss. 



This Order, very natural, except the last' Section, 

 is what Linnceus termed Contort ce, from the frequent 

 obliquity, or flexure, of the Corolla. Mr. Brown has 

 most happily divided it, see TV. of the Wern. Soc. 

 v. 1.12, and Prodr. N. Holl. v. 1 . 465, separating from 

 the rest such as have the Pollen of each Anther co- 

 alescing into two distinct, stalked masses, like the 



