184 APOCYNEM. [ Ureeola. 
continuation of the indument of the testa, the inner proper one 
consisting of soft silky hairs.—Scandent milky shrubs, with oppo- 
site leaves. Flowers minute, in peduhcled corymblike panicles or 
corymbs at the end of the branchlets and in the axils of the upper 
4 in. long stalk, 3 in, long, glabrous, fleshy-coriaceous, edible; 
seeds tawny silk-hairy, with a very long, white, silky crown. 
Hazs.—Tenas 
Pegu.—Fr. close of B.S 
Remarxs.—Yields caoutchouk said to be equal to the genuine one. 
EPIGYNUM, Wieht. 
Calyx tubular, 5-cleft, the lobes without glands. Corolla salver-° 
shaped, 5-lobed, dextrorsely twisted in bud, the throat without 
scales. Stamens 5, inserted near the base of the corolla-tube; 
anthers sagittate, adhering to the stigma. Hypogynous disk 
fleshy, embracing the base of the style and covering the summit 
of the ovary. Ovary adherent to the calyx-tube, 2-celled, the 
cells with numerous ovules ; style filiform ; stigma pyramidal, acute, 
slightly 5-winged, furnished at the base with a short reflexed 
membrane.—Climbing shrubs, with opposite leaves. Flowers in 
axillary corymbs. 
almost blunt, entire, glabrous ; flowers numerous, crowded, along 
ICHNOCARPUS, R. Br. oo 
Calyx 5-cleft, the lobes alternating with solita ired 
ry or paired 
minute lanceolate glands inside. Corolla salver-shaped, twisted mM 
bud, the tube dilated above the middle, the throat without scales, 
