166 APOCYNES, [Strychnos, 
© Corolla not villous at the throat, the tube long. 
Corymbs peduncled, terminal or on axillary shoots ; berries the size 
of an orange or smaller, several-seeded, the rind thick, corky . St. nua-vomica, 
Corolla villous at the throat. 
Panicles very short, axillary; corolla-tube about 2 lin, long; 
berries 1-seeded, the rind coriaceous. A ; . . S. potatorum, 
Panicles brachiate, large, terminal ; corolla-tube 4-5 lin. long . 8S. Wallichiana, 
1. §. laurina, Wall.—An evergreen scandent shrub with woody 
2-cleft tendrils, all parts glabrous; leaves from ovate-oblong to 
oblong- and elliptically-lanceolate, rounded or obtuse at the base and 
ring in a 3-4 lin. long petiole, 3-4 in. long, shortly acuminate, 
entire, rigidly chartaceous, glabrous, shining above, 3- or almost 
5-plmerved above the base; flowers 5-merous, small, forming short, 
minutely puberulous, almost sessile panicles in the axils of the leaves 
or larger ones at the end of the branchlets; corolla-tube 14, ln. 
ong, upwards somewhat broader, the lobes about a line long, 
densely bearded at the base ; ovary villous; berries oval, about an 
inch long, with a membranous skin, containing a single large seed 
conform with the berry. 
Has.—Tenasserim, from Moulmein down to Mergui.—Fl. Aug. 
2. §, acuminata, Wall—An evergreen, large, scandent. shrub, 
with tendrils, all parts glabrous or the very young shoots mi- 
nutely puberulous ; leaves broadly oblong to ovate-oblong, rounded 
at the base and tapering in a 2-3 lin. long petiole, 4-5 in. long, 
rather abruptly acuminate, entire, rigidly chartaceous, 5-plinerved, 
glabrous and glossy ; flowers small, greenish white, on nearly a line 
long puberulous pedicels, forming very short, puberulous, fascicle- 
like racemes arising by pairs or singly from the axils of the leaves; 
corolla consisting of 5 petals, free or only at the base slightly 
cohering, 2 lin. long, glabrous; berries globular, the size of a s 
cate 1- (or also 2-?) seeded, the skin thin-coriaceous, brown, 
smooth, 
HaB.—Not unfreq along 2 rocky sea-shores of South Andaman ; also 
ay.— 
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Tenasserim.—Fl. Fr. Apr.-M 
