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27. IcHNOcARPUs, Br. 

 Climbing slirubs with opposite leaves. Floioers small, in lax, many- 

 Howered, terminal and axillary, paniculate cymes. Calyx 5-fid, glan- 

 dular or not within. Corolla hypocrateriform, the throat contracted or 

 villous ; lobes narrowed to an obtuse point, overlapping to the right, 

 the upper half of each lobe deflexed in bud. Stamens inserted at 

 or below the middle of the corolla-tube ; filaments very short ; 

 anthers sagittate, conniving over and adhering to the stigma ; cells 

 spurred at the base. Dish free, 5-lobed. Ovary of 2 distinct carpels, 

 exserted from the disk, hairy ; ovules many ; style short, top obconic ; 

 stigma columnar. Fruit of 2 slender, spreading or divaricate, folli- 

 cular mericarps. Seeds oblong, narrowed at the tip, ending in a deci- 

 duous coma ; albumen copious ; cotyledons long, fiat ; radicle short, 

 superior. — Distrib. India, Malaya, Australia ; species 5 or 6. 



Leaves usually elliptic, acute, under 1-5 in. broad ; inflorescence 

 narrowly paniculate, very rusty-tomentose, under 3 in. long; 

 corolla-tube globose opposite the stamens, contracted above; 

 disk lobes capitate . .. .. .. 1. I. frutescens. 



Leaves usually ovate, obtuse or acute, over 1'5 in. broad ; inflor- 

 escence rather broadly paniculate, 3 to 5 in. long ; rachis glabres- 

 cent ; corolla-tube campanulate opposite the stamens, not con- 

 tracted above ; disk-lobes not capitate . , . . . . 2. I. ovatifoliiis. 



1. IcHNOCARPUS FEUTESCENS, Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, II. 69 (1811). 

 A much-branched and extensively climbing shrub ; branchlets slender, 

 tawny-pubescent ; innovations fulvous-tomentose. Leaves very variable, 

 chartaceous ; elliptic elliptic-oblong or elliptic-lanceolate or lanceolate, 

 acute or acuminate sometimes mucronate at apex, cuneate or slightly 

 rounded-attenuate at base ; glabrous on the upper surface, pale and softly 

 red-tomentose or glabrescent beneath ; 2 to 4-5 in. long, -75 to 1"6 in. 

 broad; midrib slender, impressed above; main nerves 5 to 7 pairs, curved 

 upwards to and along the margin ; reticulations in a fine network, con- 

 spicuous in young leaves; petiole '1 to "3 in. long, reddish-tomentose. 

 Cymes paniculate, 1 to 3 in. long, terminal and axillary, often forming 

 an elongated leafy thyrsus at the ends of the branchlets, rusty-pubes- 

 cent or -tomentose ; peduncles short ; branches trichotomous ; pedicels 

 stout or slender, -1 to "2 in. long, often 3 together; bracts leafy, 

 caducous ; bracteoles ovate, acute, very small ; buds clavate, tip conical ; 

 flowers greenish- or yellowish- white. Calyx-ldhe?, ovate-acute or lan- 

 ceolate, "05 to "1 in. long ; glands none. Corolla-tuhe •! in. long, cylin- 

 dric at base, dilated and nearly globose opposite the stamens and then 

 again constricted ; pubescent without where dilated, glabrous within ; 

 mouth with slightly thickened folds and villous ; lobes "15 to '2 in. 



