456 LXXIII. APOCYNACE.E [Carissa 



larger, fr. |-1 in. long, 4- or more-seeded, black when ripe. Probably the cultivated 

 form of 1. 



3. C. paucinervia, A. DC. ; Wight Ic. 1290. Nilgiris. A small shrub, 1. glabrous, 

 lanceolate, 1-1J in., sepals linear-lanceolate, corolla white, tinged with pink, fr. ovoid 

 J in. long. 



B. Spines deourved. 



4. C. macrophylla, "Wall. (C. Dalzellii, Bedd.). Western Ghats from North Kanara 

 to Tinnevelli, a large shrub, spines 1-1J in. long, flowering branches unarmed, 1. 

 shining, drying dark brown, 2-4 in. long, ending in a fine, sharp point, corolla-tube 1, 

 lobes J in., berry ellipsoid, 1 in. long. 5. C. suavissima, Bedd. Madura Hills. North 

 Kanara and Konkan Ghats (Talbot). A lofty climber, entirely glabrous, spines small, 

 corolla-tube § in. long, fr. ovoid nearly 2 in. long very milky, most delicious. 



2. MELODINUS, Forst. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. 628. 



Evergreen, erect or climbing shrubs. Corolla salver-shaped, mouth with 

 thick more or less lobed scales, left hand edge of lobes overlapping. Anthers 

 included, on very short filaments, cells obtuse at the base. Ovary 2-celled, 

 ovules oo on a thick placenta. Fr. globose, pericarp coriaceous, seeds numerous 

 imbedded in pulp, cotyledons thin flat, in fleshy albumen. 



1. M. monogynus, Roxb. ; Wight Ic. t. 394. Assam, Khasi hills, Manipur. China. 

 Malay Peninsula. A tall climber, 1. glabrous, chartaceous, elliptic-oblong, acuminate, 

 blade 5-6, pet. J in., sec. n. slender, 15-20 pair with numerous shorter intermediate 

 nerves between. PI. white large, in terminal compound trichotomous slightly 

 puberulous cymes, corolla-tube villous within, A-§ in. long, lobes as long as tube. Fr. 

 size and colour of an orange. 2. M. khasianus, Hook f., Khasi hills. Shweho district, 

 Upper Burma (Ngansein nice) in evergreen forest at 3,000 ft. Climbing, 1. membranous, 

 fl. yellow or white, corolla-tube J in., lobes short, fr. white liin. diam. 



Winchia ealophylla, A. DC. Martaban. A climbing glabrous evergreen shrub, 1. 

 often in whorls of 3, thinly coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, obtusely caudate, blade 3-4, 

 pet. 1 in. long, sec. n. oo, close together, at right angles to midrib. Corolla-tube J-J 

 in., mouth without scales, lobes short, white, velvety. 



Allamanda cathartica, Linn. Indigenous in Central America, the West Indies and 

 Brazil, largely cultivated and sometimes run wild in India and Burma. A large ever- 

 green glabrous shrub, 1. often whorled, lanceolate to oblanceolate, blade 2-4 in. long, 

 narrowed into the short petiole, fl. yellow, corolla large, tube 1 in. long, limb'cam- 

 panulate, longer than tube. Capsule compound, echinate, 2-valved, cotyledons leafy, 

 in scanty albumen. 



Willughbeia edulis, Eoxb. Cor. PI. t. 280. — Syn. W. martabanica, Wall. PL As. Par. t. 

 272. Vern. Thitchauk nwe, Talaing no, Burm. Assam, Silhet, Cachar, Chittagong, 

 Lower Burma. Malay Penins. aud Archip. An immense glabrous climber, with long- 

 branched tendrils, 1. thinly coriaceous, elongate-elliptic, blade 4-10, pet. J in. long, 

 sec. n. prominent, nearly straight, 15-20 pair. Fl. white, in small few-fld. shortly 

 peduncled axillary cymes, calyx-lobes short, rounded, ciliate, corolla-tube J, lobes J in. 

 lon°-, Fr. yellow, edible, 3—4 in. long, seeds large, numerous, .embedded in soft fibrous 

 pulp, albumen 0, cotyledons plano-convex. Yields an inferior kind of Caoutchouc. 

 W. firma, Blume, of Sumatra and Borneo, yields the Borneo Caoutchouc. H. Jumelle, 

 Les plantes a Caoutchouc et a Gutta. Paris 1903. p. 395. 



Chilocarpus atroviridis, Blume ( C. malabaricus, Bedd. Ic. t. 175 ; Winchia atroviridis 

 Kurz). South Kanara, Malabar and Travancore in evergreen forests. Tavoy and 

 Mergui. A large woody climber, 1. thinly coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, acuminate, 

 blade 4-5, pet. \ in., sec. n. numerous, slender, joined by a distinct intra-marginal vein. 

 Fl. yellow in axillary trichotomous cymes, shorter than 1., corolla J in., lobes short obtuse, 

 the left hand edge overlapping. 



3. RAUWOLFIA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. 632. 



Glabrous shrubs, 1. usually 3-4-nately whorled. Peduncles in the axils of 

 the uppermost 1. Calyx 5-fid., corolla salver-shaped, tube hairy within, inflated 

 over the anthers, the cells of which are rounded at the base. Disk large, cup- 

 shaped or annular, entire or lobed. Carpels 2, distinct or connate, ovules 2 

 collateral in each carpel. Fr. of 2 connate or distinct 1-seeded drupes, coty- 



