624 xciY. APOCYNACEj;. (J. D. Hooker.) IWilloughheia. 



and PI. As. Em: iii. 45 ; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 321 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 165. W. 

 martabanica, Wall. Cat. 1619, and PI. As. Mar. iii. 45, t. 272 : A. DC. I. c. ; 

 Km-z I.e. HunteriaP, Wall. Cat. 9066. Pacourea Gudara, Hei'b. Sam.; 

 Wall. Cat. 4465. 



Assam; at Gualpara, Hamilton. Silhet ; Be Silva. Cachar ; Keenan. Chit- 

 tagong; Roxburgh, &o. Pegtj; McClelland. Maktaban; Wallich. Malacca; 

 Griffith. — DisTKiB. Borneo. 



"An immense climber; tendrils long, tranched; bark J in. thick " (i?oxjK?yi). 

 Leaves 4-7 by lJ-2^ in., greenish or brown when dry and polished above, paler 

 beneath, margins waved ; petiole ^-J in. Cymes shortly stoutly peduncled, few-fld. ; 

 bracts rounded, deciduous ; pedicels very short. Calyx thick, subglobose ; lobes 

 short, rounded, ciliolate. CoroUortube ^ in., inflated in the middle, lobes three times 

 as long. Anthers subsagittate ; filaments short. Ovary ovoid, acute; style very 

 short, stigma conical. Berry " size of a lemon, subovoid, rind thick smooth friable. 

 Seeds many in soft pulp mixed wiih cottony fibres, size of a garden bean ; outer coat 

 fleshy, inner thin friable," Soxb. — Yields much caoutchouc. Fruit edible. Kurz, 

 who keeps W. edulis distinct from W. martabanica, gives no other characters than 

 " berry ovnte smooth " in the former, and " berry globular wrinkled in the latter." — 

 Assuming the usual variety in the size and form of such fruits in Apocynace^, and 

 attributing the wrinkles to age, nothing is left whereby to distinguish these plants, 

 of which the specimens in Wallich's Herbarium are identical, 



3. W. ceylanica, Thwaites Enum. 191 ; glabrous, leaves elliptic ob- 

 tusely acuminate base acute margins waved, nerves very many pairs horizontal 

 interspaces i-eticulated, cymes sessile or peduncled, corolla-lobes linear-oblong 

 much longer than the tube. Beddome For. FL, Annl. Oen. xx. fig. 4. Chilo- 

 carpus ceylanicus, Wight Ic. t. 1288. Winchia cirrhifera, Gardner ms, 



Ceylou- ; in forests ascending to 4000 ft., Gardner, &c. 



A climbing shrub with long branched tendrils, bark of branches black. Leaves 

 3-4 by 1^-2 in., very coriaceous, when dry very dark brown and polished above, 

 light red-brown beneath ; nerves straight, with a recurrent one from the intramarginal 

 between every pair of primaries ; petiole \ in. Cymes usually peduncled, few or 

 many-fid. ; bracts ovate, obtuse ; pedicels short. Calyx small, lobes short rounded, 

 ciliolate. Corolla-tube very short, lobes three times as long. Anthers lanceolate, 

 filaments nearly as long, very broad and fleshy at the base. Ovary very broad, 

 depressed-flagon-shaped; style rather slender, stigma elongate, obpyriforra. Fruit 

 "^-5 in. diam., spherical or subpyriform, fleshy, yellow- red. 8eeds\ by^iu., oblong, 

 compressed, testa membranous, cotyledons fleshy, reddish," Thwaites. 



4. W. flrma, Blume Mm. Sot. i. 154 ; glabrous, leaves elliptic or 

 elliptic-lanceolate very coriaceous sbining above obtusely acuminate base acute, 

 nerves 10-15 pairs nearly straight interspaces hardly reticulated, cymes sessile 

 dense-flowered, coroUa-lobes linear-oblong longer than tbe inflated tube, berry 

 pyiiform. Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 390. W. Burbidgei, Dyer in Kew Gard. 

 Rep. 1880, 44, 46. 



Singapore ; jungles near the Botanical Gardens, H. Murton. — Distkib. Sumatra, 

 Borneo. 



A large climber; branches stout, obtusely angled, bark smooth. Leaves very 

 variable, 3-6 by 1-3 in., very coriaceous, usually dark brown and polished above, or 

 on both surfaces when dry ; midrib very stout beneath ; nerves slender but pro- 

 minent, reticulations very indistinct. Flowers about J in. long Calyx-lobes ovate, 

 obtuse, obscurely ciliate. Corolla-tube inflated in the middle ; lobes narrow. Anthers 

 ovate, acute, filaments short. Ovary ovoid, acute; style short. Fruit in Bornean 

 specimens as large and of the form of a good sized pear, 4 inches long, orange-yellow, 

 pericarp thick. Seeds 1 in. long. — There may be more than one species under this 

 name. The Javan specimens referred to it by Miquel haye much fewer nerves in the 



