188 APOCYNES, [ Cercocoma., 
about 3 lin. long, the lobes twice as long or somewhat longer, glab- 
rous or more or less puberulous on the inner face ; follicles paired or 
rarely connate, 1-1} ft. long, glabrous. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of Martaban down to Tenas- 
serim, rare along the eastern slopes of the Pegu Yomah ; also Ava.—Fl.-Apr.— 
8: 1.—SS.—Metam. SiS. 
ANODENDRON, A. DC. 
Calyx 5-parted, the lobes ovate, with minute glands inside a 
their bases. Corolla salver-shaped with a short tube, twisted in 
bud, the throat without scales, usually somewhat pubescent above 
the stamens, the lobes sigmoid-falcate. Anthers sessile, inserted 
in the inflated part below the middle of the corolla-tube, sagittate, 
apiculate, cohering in a cone round the stigma. Nectary cup- 
shaped, obscurely 5-crenate. Ovaries 2, as long as the nectary, 
each with a few ovules only; style very short ; the stigma ovoid, 
Scandent shrubs, with opposite leaves. Flowers small, in axillary 
and terminal, peduncled, corymbose panicles or cymes. 
1. A. paniculatum, A. DC.—Twin-nek.—An_ evergreen, large, 
scandent shrub, all parts quite glabrous ; leaves elliptical to ellipti- 
cally oblong, acute at the base, on a strong petiole 5-8 lin. long, 
3-5 in. long, apiculate, entire, thin-coriaceous, glabrous, the nerves 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of the Pegu Yomah, Martaban — 
and Tenasserim, especially along choungs.—Fl. J an.-Feb.; Fr. the following 
year.—s:1—SS.=Metam. SiS | 
EMARKS.—The Andamanese use the fibre for the strings of their bows, and 
Mr. Homfray considers it stronger than any known to him. 
ECDYSAN THERA, Hook. and Arn. 
Calyx small, 5-cleft or -parted, with a few or without glands 
at the baseinside. Corolla almost urn-shaped, naked at the throat, 
