630 xciv. APOCYNAOEj;. (J. D. Hooker.) {WincTiia^ 



longer lobule eiliate or toothed at the tip. Anthers narrowly lanceolate, acuminate.. 

 ^Fruit unknown. — Maingay observes that this resembles a Melodinus. 



6. VrXNCSXA, A. DC. 



A slender twining evergreen shrub. Leaves 3 in a whorl. Flowers small^ 

 in terminal paniculate cymes. Cali/x small, 5-lotied, eglandular within. Corolla' 

 salver-shaped, tuhe nearly cylindric ; lobes rounded, velvety, overlapping to the 

 left ; throat villous. Anthers above the middle of the tube, included, subsessile,. 

 cells rounded at the base, dehiscing almost throughout their length. Disc 0- 

 Ovary short, 2-celled, top rounded glabrous ; style short, stigma with a calyp- 

 triform base ; ovules in several series, placentas on the septum. Fruit not seen. 



W. calopbylla, A. DC. Prodr. viii. 326 ; Kwz Fm: Fl. ii. 170; Deless^ 

 Ic. Sel. V. t. 46. Alyxia? calophylla, Wall. Cat. 1607. A. glaucescens, G^ 

 Don Gen, Syst. iv. 97 (desCript. incorrect). 



Maetaean ; Wallieh. 



Leaves 2-4 in., oblong-lanceolate, obtusely caudate, acuminate, base acute, very- 

 shining above and dark olive brown when dry, pale beneath, margins waved, coria- 

 ceous ; nerves very numerous, close and horizontal ; petiole slender, f-| in. Cymes. 

 glabrous, rounded, shortly peduncled, 1-2 in. diam. ; bracts minute ; pedicels short.. 

 Calyx campauulate, lobes rounded, ciliolate. Corolla-tube ^-J in., foxir times lougei- 

 than the calyx, inflated below the top ; lobes short, white with velvety hairs. 



6. CAXtlSSA, Linn. 



Spinous, densely branched, usually erect shrubs. Leaves opposite, small,, 

 coriaceous. Flowers in terminal and axillary peduncled 3-chotomous cymes. 

 Calyx 5-partite, glandular within or not, segments acute. CoroUa-tuhe cylindric, 

 throat naked, lobes overlapping to the right (in the Indian species). Stamens- 

 at the top of the tube, included ; anthers lanceolate, cells rounded at the base.. 

 IHsn 0. Ovai-y 2-celled; style filiform, stigma fusiform or columnar, minutely 

 2-fid ; ovules 1-4 in each cell, rarely more. Berry ellipsoid or globose, 2- (or by 

 abortion 1-) celled. Seeds usually 2, peltately attached to the septum, albumen- 

 fleshy; cotyledons ovate. — Disieib. Species about 20, African, Asiatic and. 

 Australian. 



The Indian species of this genus are very difficult of definition, and are probably- 

 reducible to one or two very variable plants. The tickets of Wallich's specimens irsv 

 Herb. Linn. Soc. have been, I fear, much misplaced. 



* Spines straight. 



1. C. Carandas, lAnn. ; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 332 ; shrubby or arbores^ 

 cent, quite glabrous except the puberulous cymes, leaves 1 j-3 in. oblong rounded 

 broadly ovate or obovate shining above, tip rounded or obtuse, nerves numerous,, 

 corolla f-1 in. long, ovary 4- or 8-o-vuled, berry J-1 in. ellipsoid 4- or more- 

 seeded. Wall. Cat. 1677, paHly ; Roxh. Cor. PI. i. 55, t. 77, and Fl. Ind. L 

 687, and ed. Wall. Sf Carey ii. 623 ; Wight Ic. t. 426, and in Hooh. Comp. Bot.. 

 Mag. i. 276, t. 12 ; Lamh. III. t. 118, fig. 1 ; Lodd. Bat. Cab. t. 663; Brand: 

 For. Fl. 320; Gibs. Cat. Bomb. PI. 116; Dalz. 8f Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 143; Kurz- 

 Fm: Fl. ii. 169 ; Beddome Fl. Sylv. 156, t. ID, fig. 6. 0. congesta, Wigld Ic. 

 t. 1289. 



Throughout the drier sandy or rocky soils of India, native or ciiltivated ; fromi 

 the Punjab to Ceylon, Birma and Malacca. — Distkib. Java, Timor. 



A large shrub or small gnarled tree with many dichotomous, rigid, spreading. 



