632 xciv. APOCTNACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) {Garissa. 



Vahl's C. inermis, described by him from a spineless branch, which justifies the aban- 

 donment of his name inermis. 



6. C. suavissima, Beddome mss. ; climbing, quite glabTous, leaves 2-3 in. 

 broadly ovate acute or acuminate many-nerved, cymes sessile, coi-oUa 1 in. long, 

 berry 2 in. long. 



Deccak Pendtsuia ; mountains of the Madura district, Seddome. 



This closely resembles C. macrophylla ; but differs in the slender climbing habit, 

 very small spines, broader paler leaves, the perfectly glabrous flowers and large 

 berries. Col. Seddome describes it as a lofty climber with milky and most delicious 

 fruit. 



TsiBE n. FXiuniERXEs:. 



7. RATTWOXiFIA, Linn. 



Glabrous (the Indian) shrubs. Leaves 3-4-nately whorled, rarely opposite ; 

 nerves slender, remotely arched, axils glandular. Peduncles alternating with 

 the terminal leaves, becoming lateral. Cali/a: 5-fid or -partite, eglandular vidthin. 

 Corolla salver-shaped, tube cylindric, mouth constricted, throat usually hairy 

 within ; lobes broad, overlapping to the left. Stamens included at or above the 

 middle of the tube ; anthers small, acute, cells rounded at the base. Disc large, 

 cup-shaped or annular. Carpels 2, distinct or connate ; style filiform, stigma 

 broad calyptriform at the base, tip 2-fid ; ovules 2, collateral in each carpel. 

 Mipe carpels drupaceous, distinct or connate, usually 1-seeded. Seeds ovoid, 

 albumen fleshy ; cotyledons flat. — DisiKlB. Species about 40, chiefly tropical 

 American. 



* CoroUa-tvhe slender, itiflated a little ahovi the middle. 



1. XI. serpentina, Be/nth. in Gen. PI. ii. 697 ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate 

 or obovate acute or acuminate, nei-ves 8-12 pairs, cymes long-peduncled rounded 

 rarely racemose fruiting erect, sepals short lanceolate, corolla-tube long slender 

 shortly globosely inflated above the middle, drupes 5 in. broadly obliquely 

 ovoid. Kurz For. Fl. ii. 17. Ophioxylon serpentinum, Linn. ; A. DC. Prodr. 

 viii. 342 ; Bot. Mag. t. 784 ; Jones in As. Research, iv. 308 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 

 694, and ed. Carey S,- Wall. ii. 530; Wight Ic. t. 849; Grah. Cat. Boinb. PI. 

 116; Bah. ^ Gibs. Bomh. Fl. 144; Bedd. For. Fl. Anal. Gen. 156; Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. ii. 404. O. trifoliatimi, GaeHn. Fruct. ii. 129, t. 109, fig. 2 ; Miqiiel 

 I. c. 0. obversum, Miguel I. c. 405. Tabemaemontana cylindracea, WaU. Cat. 

 4i51. —Rheede Hort. Mai. t. 47; Bm-m. Fl. Zeyl. t. 64. 



Teopical Himalaya and plains near the foot of the hills from Sirkind, Edgeworth, 

 and Moradabad, Thomson, to Sikkim. The Khasia Mts., ascending to 4000 ft. ; 

 Assam, Pegu, Tenassekim, and in the Deccah Peninsula, alopg the Ghats to Teavan- 

 CORE and Ceylon. — Distrib. Java. 



A small shrub, 6-18 in., rarely 2-3 ft. high, bark white, rarely lenticeUate. 

 Leaves 3-7 by 1^2| in., green when dry, very pale beneath, narrowed into a short 

 petiole. Cy7n£S 1-2 in. diam., many-flowered ; peduncle 2-5 in., stout, branches 

 and pedicels red ; bracts obsolete ; pedicels ^-^ in. ; flowers white or pinkish, nearly 

 1 in. long. Calyx small. Corolla-tti.be often curved ; lobes not one-quarter the 

 length of the tube, margins undulate ; throat hairy. Drupes black, endocarp slightly 

 rugose. 



2. B.. peg'uana, Hooh.f.; leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate acuminate, 

 cymes sessile branched from the base branches divaricate, calyx-lobes ovate 

 acute, corolla-tube slender inflated in the middle. 



Pbqtj; Ktirz. 



Branches rather slender, not lenticeUate. Leaves opposite and three in a whorl. 



