MelocUnus.] xciv. APOCTNACEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) 629 



* Flowers in terminal panicled cymes. Corolla-lobes ohlong or rounded, 

 'quite entire, 



1. 9K. monog'jmus, Hoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 56 ; leaves oblong or oMong-lan- 

 ceolate acute or obtuse base acute or rounded, corollsi-tube |-| in., lobes as long 

 oblong. A. DC. Prodr. viii. 329 ; WM. Cat. 1603 ; Wight Ic. t. 394 ; Bot. 

 Iteg. t. 834; Bot. Mag. t. 2627. Ecbaltium piscidium, WigU Ic. t. 242, 

 ■t^xcl.fig. of fruit. Nerium piscidium, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 7, excl. descr. of fruit, 



SiKKiM Himalaya ; at Bartning, alt. 4500 ft. (leaves only), Clarke. Assam, 

 SiLHET and the Khasia Mts., common, ascending to 4000 ft. Penang ; Maingay. 



A tall milky climber, branches smooth. Leaves 5-6 by 1 J-2 in., pale brown 

 when dry and shining above, nerves many but not close, very slender, arching ; 

 petiole ^J in. Panicles puberulous, sometimes 12 in. long, brachiate, drooping; 

 flowers Usually 3-nate, nearly white, fragrant; pedicels long or short; bracts 

 ■caducous. Calyx-segmeivts ^ in., broad, ciliolate. Corolla-tnbe villous or bearded 

 Trithin, lobes obtuse. BVuit globose, obscurely 4-angled, size and colour of an orange ; 

 pericarp coriaceous. Seeds numerous. — Eoxburgh erred in describing the scales of 

 the corolla as being undivided. 



2. nx. kbasianus, Hooh.f. ; leaves linear-lanceolate acuminate at both 

 -ends membranous, cymes short few-fld., coroUartube J in., lobes rounded. 



Khasia Mts. ; Moflong wood, &c., alt. 5-7000 ft., Griffith, J. D. H. # T. T. 



A smaller plant in all its parts than M. monogynus, with leaves 2^-5 by 1-1 \ in., 

 •and more membranous, very much smaller flowers with a short corollas-tube and 

 Toimded lobes, and with the fruit only 1^ in. diam, 



** Flowers small in axillary cymes or fasdcleg. Corolla-lobes very obliquely 

 ■2-lobed or %ifid at the tip. 



3. 9K. orientalis, Blume Bijd. 1026, and Mus. Bot. i. 155, fig. 411 ; 

 quite glabrous, leaves oblong or elliptic-oblong obtusely acuminate base acute, 

 nerves very numerous nearly horizontal very slender, cymes shortly peduncled 

 few-fld., corolla ^ in. lobes short obliquely ovate bicuspidate, scales closing the 

 mouth very thick fleshy lobulate. Miguel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 396, t. 34; A. DC. 

 Prodr. viii. 330 ; Kurz in Journ. As. See. 1877, ii. 250, in note. Hunteria ? 

 •cuspidata. Wall. Cat. 1609 ; A. DC. I.e. 350. Alyxia? ciispidata, W<dl. Serb. 

 <vhilocarpus cuspidatus, Bemth. in Gen. PI. ii. 698 (under Hwnteria). 



Penang ; Wallich, Phillips, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1 043/2, Chilocarpus stia- 

 veolens). — Disteie. Java, Sumatra. 



Branches smooth, rather slender, bark very dark. Leaves 4-5 by 1^-2 in., thinly 

 coriaceous, greenish brown and shining above when dry, pale yellower green beneath, 

 margins a little undulate ; petiole j-J in. Cymes with very short stout peduncles ; 

 flowers crowded ; bracts rounded, persistent. Calyx small, lobes rounded. Corolla 

 very thickly coriaceous, tube swollen in the middle, lobes forming a globose bud ; 

 lobes shorter than the tube. Fruit " large, yellow" (Maingay). 



4. T/L.Z micrantbus, Kodk.f. ; quite glabrous, leaves elliptic-lanceolate 

 obtusely acuminate base acute nerves remote very slender, cymes subsessile 

 many-flowered, coroUa ^-J in. long, lobes short unequally obtusely 2-lobed, 

 scales closing the mouth 2-lobed. 



Malacca ; Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1090). 



Branches smooth, rather slender; bark black. Leaves 3-6 by 1-lf in., coriaceous, 

 -dark brown and shining when dry above, paler bright brown beneath, margins some- 

 what undulate ; petiole ^ in. Fasekles of flowers J-f in. diam. ; bracts broad, short, 

 •deciduous. Calyx very small, lobes rounded. Corolla coriaceous, tube much swollen 

 in the middle; lobes short, forming a globose bud, obliquely 2-fid, sinus broad, 



