Willughbeia.| APOCYNER. 165 
veined ; flowers middling-sized, pale pink-coloured, shortly pedi 
celled, forming a short-peduncled axillary or terminal cluster ; 
long, 3-5 in. long, acuminate, entire, polished, glabrous, parallely 
Has..—Chittagong,—FI. Fr. nearly o, 
Remarxs.—Yields an inferior sort of caoutchouk. 
2. W. Martabanica, Wall.—7kit-kyouk-nway.—An evergreen, 
large, scandent tendril-bearing shrub, all parts. glabrous; leaves 
elliptical to elliptically obovate, narrowed in a short petiole, 3-4 in. 
long, apiculate, entire, glabrous, chartaceous, glossy, with numerous 
parallel veins; flowers middling-sized, almost sessile, forming a 
sessile or almost sessile cluster in the axils of the leaves or at the 
end of the branchlets ; calyx-lobes oblong, rounded, minutely ciliate ; 
corolla about 3 lin. long; berries globular, about 3 in. in diameter, 
wrinkled, yellowish, glabrous; seeds numerous, oval, imbedded in a 
yellowish-reddish pulp. 
Has.—Upper Tenasserim.—Fr. Apr. 
STRYCHNOS, L. 
_ Calyx 5-lobed. Corolla tubular-salver- or almost funnel-shaped, 
very rarely the lobes free almost to the base, naked or bearded at 
the throat, the limb 5-parted and valvate in bud. Stamens 5, 
mserted at the throat; filaments very short; anthers almost 
exserted. Ovary 2-celled, the cells with several or numerous ovules 
ed, the rind often hard. Seeds more or less compressed, im- 
bedded in pulp.—Trees or shrubs, often scandent by means of hooked 
Woody tendrils, with opposite 3-5-nerved entire leaves. Flowers in 
axillary or terminal cymes, clusters or panicles. 
Co. ak Scandent shrubs, with woody, hooked, 2-cleft tendrils. 
Corolla-tube 14 lin, long, beanie at the throat; berry oblong, j 
eon ed, witha membranousskin. . . . .  «& laurina, 
‘orolla Consisting of 5 free glabrous petals; berry globular, 1- (or : 
2-¥) seeded, the skin coriaceous’. =. 3. 7. . 8. acuminata, 
** Greet trees without tendrils, 
