Chonemorpha. | APOCYNE. 187 
1. Ch. macrophylla, Don.; Brand. For. Fl. 828.—An ever- 
green, large, scandent shrub, the younger parts more or less shortly 
and softly pubescent or almost tomentose; leaves very ample, obo- 
vate to elliptically obovate, rounded or almost cordate at the nar- 
towed base, on a 3 to 2 in. long pubescent petiole, 5-7 in. long by 
4-5 broad, acute or apiculate, firmly membranous, above glabrous 
or slightly pubescent along the nerves, beneath more or less shortly 
pubescent and pale-coloured ; flowers large, 2-3 in. across, white or 
rarely pale rose-coloured, on 3-5 lin. long shortly tomentose or 
canescent pedicels, forming a peduncled, dichotomously branched, 
canescent cyme at the end of the branches; bracts ovate, acute ; 
corolla variable in size, the tube 3 to 14 in. long, the lobes some- 
what longer and broad ; follicles united into one 1-14 in. long, linear, 
acuminate, glabrous. 
Has.—Frequent in the tropical forests along choungs of the Andamans * 
(only the small-flowered variety seen).—Fl. May.—s: l—SS.=SiS. Metam. 
Remarxs.—According to Revd. Parish, this yields a considerable quantity of 
caoutchouk, 
CERCOCOMA, Mig. 
Calyx 5-cleft or -parted, the tube bell-shaped, with numerous 
truncate glands inside at the base, the lobes oblong. Corolla salver- 
shaped, with a cylindrical tube, twisted in bud, the throat without 
scales. Stamens 5 ; filaments adnate to the base of the corolla-tube ; 
anthers hastate, eohering in a cone round the stigma. Nectary 
cup-shaped, 5-cleft. Ovaries 2, united by the style, many-ovuled. 
Follicles paired, elongate, compressed, many-seeded. Seeds com- 
Pressed, obovate, narrowed in a slender neck crowned by a coma of 
long silky hairs. Albumen none. Embryo straight, with oblong 
~”, ase, on a 3-1 in. long slender petiole, 2-4 in. long, acuminate, 
entire, firmly membranous, glabrous; flowers white with a dee 
pedicels, forming a pretty long-peduncled, minutely puberulous, 
glabrescent, dichotomous eyme im the axils of the upper leaves; 
calyx nearly to the base 5-cleft, almost glabrous; corolla-tube 
