IBamvolfia.l xcnr. apoctnacej). (J. D. Hooker.) 633 



3-5 by l^lj in., very membranous ; nerves 7-10 parrs, very faint. Cymes with the 

 main branches an inch long widely divaricating from the base, some decurved; 

 "flowers pedicelled, i-* in. long. Caiyx very small, many times shorter than the 

 -corolla-tube. Corolla-lobes very small. Fruit not seen. — This is closely allied to S. 

 -serpentina, differing in the inflorescence, smaller flowers, and calyx. 



** CwoUa-tuhe broad, inflated at the top. 



3. It. densiflora, Benth. in Gen. PI. ii. 697 ; leaves obovate or oblanceo- 

 late a-cuminate, nerves 8-16 pairs, cymes shorts or long-peduncled or corymbose 

 •erector spreading in fruit, sepals elongate subulate-lanceolate half the length of 

 "the broadly tubular corolla-tube wtich is inflated at the top, drupes ^-i in. 

 obliquely ellipsoid. Ophioxylon neilgherrense, Wight Ic. t. 1292 ; Dalz. S/- ffibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 144. O. ceylanicum, Wight Ic. t. 1291. 0. macrocarpum, Wight 

 J. c. iv. part 2, 1. O. densiflorum, Thwaites Enum. 191 ; Beddome For. Fl. 

 -Anal. Gen. 156, t. 20. fig. 2. Tabernsemontana densiflora, Wall, in Bot. Beg. 

 1. 1273 ■,A.DC. Prodr. viii. 373. T. parviflora, Herb. Heyne in Wall. Cat. 4463. 



Khasia Mts. ; alt. 1-4000 ft, J. V. H. ^ T. T. Deccan Peninsuia, on the 

 "Western Ghats ; from the Concan southwards, alt. about 6000 ft. Ceylon, ascending 

 to 6000 ft. 



A larger shrub than if. serpentina ; branches copiously lenticeUatB. Leaves often 

 4 in a. whorl, very variable in size, 4-10 by 2-3 in., and number and stoutness 

 of nerves. Cymes often numerous, dichotomously branched, branches and pedicels 

 erect ; flowers rose-red or white, ^ in. long. Calyx-lobes ^\ in. Corolla-lobes 

 rounded, nearly as long as the tube. Drupes very rugose. 



Vab. ? macrophylla ; leaves broader 8-10 by 24-3^ in. very membranous, cymes 

 very short branched from the base, flowers not seen, fruit as in the type. Tabernse- 

 montana subeapitata?, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. ^ T.— Khasia Mts., alt. 2000 ft., at 

 IJowgong. 



4. R. microcarpa, Hook. f. ; leaves small oblanceolate acuminate, 

 3ierves 8-10 pairs, cymes short branched from the base, di'upes ovoid j in. long. 

 Tabemssmontana microcarpa. Wall. Cat. 1581. 



ButMA ; Taongdong (road to "Ween-dow), Wallich. 



The specimens are most wretched, consisting of two fragments of branches with 

 3 or 4 broken leaves and a fruiting cyme from which the solitary drupe (much eaten by 

 insects) is detached. 



6. R. decurva, Hook. f. ; leaves small oblanceolate acuminate, cymes 

 shortly peduDcled decurved few-flowered, calyx-lobes lanceolate half as long as 

 the broad corolla-tube which is inflated at the top, drupes ^ in. 



X)eccan Peninsujia ; Canara and the Concan, Poonah, Stocks ; Mundeel, Bitchie. 



A shrub, 6 ft. ; branches stout, dichotomous, lenticellate, leafy at the tips only. 

 jLeaves 4 ia a whorl, in crowded whorls, I-IJ by |^-f in., drying brownish-gteen. 

 ■Cymes short, peduncle ^1 in., 2-6-flowered, sometimes branched from the base ; 

 flowers J in. long, white to pink. Calyx-lobes lanceolate, half the length of the 

 corolla-tube. Corolla-lobes rounded, almost as long as the tube. — This may be a 

 state of E. densiflora, but if so it is a very singular one, easily distinguished by the 

 small leaves crowded at the tips of the woody branches, the decurved peduncles, and 

 small flowers. 



6. R. micrantha, Hook. f. ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate 

 lacuminate, cymes with long slender erect peduncles few-fld., calyx-lobes tri- 

 angular-ovate, corolla very small tube slif^htly swollen at the top, lobes small, 

 drupes J in. obliquely ovate acute. Ophioxylon micranthum, Wight mss. 



Malabar ; Wight. 



Branches rather slender, with minute lenticels. Leaves opposite and 3 in a whorl. 



