Flora of the Mcdayan Peninsula. 391 



Tribe I. — Carisse^. 



1. WlLLUGHBEIA, Eoxb. 



Large sarmentose or climbing shrubs, generally bearing tendrils 

 which are modified peduncles. Leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, 

 penninerved. Floioers in dense, rarely in lax, axillary cymes ; pedicels 

 enlarged in fruit. Calyx 5-partite, eglandular. Corolla hypocrateriform, 

 the mouth naked ; lobes broad or linear, overlapping to the left, nearly 

 straight in bud. Stamens inserted near the base of the tube, included ; 

 anthers lanceolate, the connective apiculate, the cells rounded at the 

 base. Dish none. Ovary entire, 1-celled ; style short, its top obconic 

 or urceolate ; stigma capitate or ovoid-conical, often slightly annulate 

 at the base and slightly bifid at the apex ; ovules numerous, on two 

 parietal placentas. Fruit a large globose berry with a hard pericarp. 

 Seeds numerous, embedded in pulp, ellipsoid, compressed ; albumen 

 none ; cotyledons fleshy, thick, plano-convex ; radicle short. — -Distrib. 

 India, Ceylon, Burma, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago ; about 12 

 species. 



Cymes with stout peduncles and pedicels ; stamens usually near 

 the base or middle of the corolla-tube ; stigma conical, on a 

 short style (Subgenus I. Euwillughbeia) : — ■ 

 Main nerves of leaves 6 to 8 pairs ; leaves orbicular or elliptic, 

 pale when dry, glaucescent beneath; corolla-lobes 1 in. long 1. W. grandiflora. 

 Main nerves of leaves 10 to 16 pairs, rather distant : — 



Corolla-lobes -3 to -4 in. long ; leaves scarcely coriaceous : — 

 Cymes few-flowered, nearly glabrous ; leaves long acu- 

 minate . . . . . . . . . . 2. W. eduUs. 



Cymes many -flowered, pubescent ; leaves obtuse or with 



a short blunt tip . . . . . . . . 3. W. oblonga. 



Corolla-lobes under "25 in. long ; leaves coriaceous or 

 nearly so : — 



Main nerves flattened on lower surface of coriaceous leaves 4. W. coriacea. 



Main nerves sharp and slender on lower surface of thinly 



coriaceous leaves .. .. .. ..5. W.Jirma. 



Main nerves of leaves over 20 pairs, parallel and close : — 

 Corolla-lobes -3 in. long ; leaves thinly chartaeeouB, up to 

 10 in. long, blunt-acuminate at apex . . . . 6. W. martabanica. 



Corolla-lobes -4 to •? in. long ; leaves thinly coriaceous, 

 hardly over 6 in. long, sharply acuminate at apex . . 7. IF. tenuijfora. 



Cymes with slender peduncle and pedicels ; stamens near the 

 top of the corolla-tube ; stigma cylindric, seated on the obconic 

 top of the slender style (Subgenus II. Ukntjlakia) : — 



Main nerves of leaves under 20 ; corolla-lobes ovate, recurved 



in flower .. .. .. .. ..8. W. flavescens. 



Main nerves of leaves over 20 ; corolla-lobes narrowly oblong, 



erect in flower . . . . . . . . . . 9. l-K. ritfescens. 



