Parsonsia.| APOCYNACE. 675 
554. Vallaris Burm. 
Climbing shrubs; leaves opposite, minutely dotted. Flowers 
white, in cymes or fascicles, axillary, subaxillary, or supra- -axillary. 
short tube and naked throat; lobes broad, overlapping to the 
right. Stamens 5, hee ate to top of tube; filaments very short, 
clavate ; anthers exserted, conniving in a cone and adnate to 
stigma; cells with rigid basal spurs; connective with a large 
dorsal gland. Disk annular or cupshaped, 5-lobed or with 5 scales. 
Carpels 2, at first connate, each many-ovuled; style filiform, 
pubescent ; stigma thick, indistinctly annulate. Fruit an oblong 
capsule, or of 2 at length separating, follicles, the placentas 
detached from each other and from the pericarp. Seeds 2- venir 
ovate, acuminate or beaked, compressed, apex comose ; album 
seanty ; cotyledons thin and flat. 
Leaves riot oblong or eee acuminate ; petioles less den an 
inch long; cymes pu eynei. 
Leaves sabia Mitatieahdvias or rounded, shortly acute; patos an 
inch long or longer; cymes glabrous or puberulous ............ ergulana, 
1219. Vatuaris Heyner Spreng. ; rf EB, Lin. 650; Bo 0 Vv. 
Echites dichotoma F. I. ii. 
Tirhut ; Behar; Chota shige W. and C, Bengal: also 
often cultivated. 
A climbing shrub. Hind. Ramsar; Beng. Hapar, mali. 
1220. Vaunaris Perauuana Burm.; F. B. I. iii. 651. Echites 
hircosa F. I. ii. 18. 
Oosssitelinity cultivated. 
A climbing shrub, flowers with a goat-like smell. 
555. Parsonsia R. Br, 
Climbing shrubs ; leaves opposite. Flowers small, white, in 
yl! ic or g. : 
naked; lobes overlapping to the right. Stamens 5, adnate to the 
corolla-tube ; filaments often twisted; anthers half. haere con- 
