y Melodinus.] APOCYNACE 4). 667 
anthers lanceolate, acuminate, with shortly sagittate base. Disk 
thick, fleshy, obscurely 5-lobed. Carpels 2, connate in a 1-locular 
ovary, with 2 parietal placentas; ovules on each placenta 2- or 
more-seriate; style filiform; stigma thick, dilated, annular 
apex conic, 2-lobed. Frwit an ovate, compressed, spinescent a 
sule, dehiscing by 2 valves along the placentas. Seeds imbricate, 
compressed, with membranous or winged margin ; albumen fleshy ; 
cotyledons broa 
1200. ALLAMANDA CARTHARTICA Linn.; E. D. A. 762. 
Planted in gardens in most of the provinces ; occasion- 
- ally naturalised in C. and E. Bengal. 
: af A climbing shrub. Beng. Har-kakra. 
541. Willughbeia Roxb. 
Glabrous shrubs, often climbing by peduncles becoming cirr- 
hose ; leaves opposite, short- petioled. Flowers in cymes. 
or with fleshy glands alternating with the lobes ; lobes bard 
to the left, nearly Hea in bud. Stamens 5, included in corolla- 
tube; filaments very short; anthers ovate or Se hiininslats : cells 
rounded at the base. Disk 0. Carpels 2, connate in a 1-celled 
ovary; ovules numerous, many-seriate, on 2 parietal placentas; 
style short, with obconic or urceolate apex; stigma curved or 
col i i 
ie ee 
with a hard pericarp. Seeds embedded in pulp, ellipsoid ; albumen 
0; cotyledons thick 
1201. WiutueHBEIA EDULIS Roxb.; F. 1. ii. 57; F. B. I. iii. 623; 
D 
ee eS as | 
Chittagong. 
An immense climber with long, branched tendrils. 
Beng. Luti-am 
. 542. Melodinus Forst. 
Evergreen shrubs, erect or climbing ; aio ae Flowers 
terminal and axillary cymes, white e- pink, usually 
5-merous, rarely 4-merous. Sepals bas: in ie Pee calyx, 
eglandular within. Petals 5, connate in a salver-shaped corolla; 
throat with thick, lobed or cleft scales; lobes overlapping to the 
_ left, Stamens 5, rarely 4; anthers included, subsessile, lanceolate ; 
2 a > 
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