Rauwolfia.] APOCYNER. 17] 
5, inserted below the throat and included in the inflated part ; 
anthers oblong, acute, longer than the filament. N ectary cu 
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Drupe didymous, connate at the base, ovoid, with a wrinkled 1- 
seeded nut. Albumen fleshy. Embryo with oval cotyledons.—Low 
shrubs or undershrubs, with opposite or whorled entire leaves, 
Flowers in terminal cymes or brachiate corymbose panicles. 
shortly acuminate, 2-5 in. long, entire, membranous, glabrous, pale- 
coloured beneath; flowers white or (especially the tube) pale rose- 
Haz.—Very frequent in the mixed and open, especially in the savannah 
pee all over Pegu and Martaban down to Tenasserim.—F]. Apr -May.—s.+ 
Ws. Oo, , 
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Calyx 5-parted, without glands, the sepals free, reflexed. 
Corolla salver-shaped, sinistrorsely twisted in bud. Stamens 5, 
inserted at the middle of the tube; anthers linear-lanceolate, cuspi- 
conical, 10-furrowed at base and 2-lobed at the apex. Drupe by 
geseon singly, ellipsoid to globose, with a woody-fibrous mesoe: 
2- or l-seeded, Albumen none. Embryo with fleshy ovate-oblong 
cotyledons.—Trees, with alternate or crowded leaves. Flowers 
conspicuous, in terminal corymb-like panicles. 
White, on nearly 4 in. long glabrous pedicels, forming a shorter or 
longer peduneled, reflexed-bracted, glabrous, robust, corymb-like 
