Kopsta,] APOCYNACE A, ; 671 
leaves, ultimately becoming lateral. Sepals connate in a 5-fid or 
5-partite calyx; tube not glandular within ; lobes obtuse or acute. 
Petals 5, connate in a salver-shaped corolla, with cylindric tube 
and constricted throat, the latter usually hairy within; lobes 
broad, overlapping to the left. Stamens included, adnate to or 
above the middle of the tube; anthers smail, acute; cells with 
rounded base. Disk large, cupular or annular. Carpels 2, dis- 
tinct or connate ; ovules 2 collateral in each carpel ; style filiform ; 
stigma with a broad, calyptrate base, and a 2-fid tip. Fruit of 2 
distinct or connate, drupe-like ripe carpels, each usually 1 1-seeded. 
* Seeds ovoid ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons flat. 
Leaves glabrous serpentina 
Leaves pubescent canescens 
1209. RaUWOLFIA SERPENTINA Benth.; F. B. I. iii. 682. Ophi- 
oxylon serpentinum F. I. i. 694, 
N. Bengal; C. Bengal 
A small, glabrous shinai Hind. Chota-chand; Beng. 
Chandra. 
1210. Rauwourta canescens Linn, 
. Bengal, cultivated and at times naturalised. 
A small pubescent shrub ; native of West Indies. ~ 
548. Kopsia Bl. 
Glabrous trees or aoa leaves aaa narrowed to very 
short petioles. Flowers in terminal ¢ Sepals connate in a 
small, 5-partite calyx; Whe with sistas tips; tube not glan- 
dular within. Petals 5, connate in a salver-shaped corolla; tube 
very slender ; throat hairy within ; lobes overlapping to the right. 
Stamens 5, included, adnate near apex of corolla-tube ; anthers 
acute ; cells rounded at the base. Disk of 2 glands alternating 
. with the carpels. Carpels 2, distinct; ovules 2 in each c 
one on each side of a thickened placenta; style filiform, thickened 
at the top; stigma short. Fruit of 2 obovoid or obliquely quad- 
r from intrusion of the fleshy placenta 2-celled and 2-seeded. 
* Seed oblong ; albumen 0; cotyledons rather thin. 
Me - Kopsta rruticosa A. DC.; F. B. I. iii. 639. Cerbera 
Sruticosa F. I, i. 691. 
» dn gardens, frequent. 
A large evergreen shrub. 
