640 xciv. apoctnacej:. . (J. D. Hooker.) [Bhazya- 



Corolla salveivshaped, tube cjlindric, with reflexed hail's beneath the stamens^ 

 ■within, throat constricted hairy ; lobes 6, short, broad, overlapping to the left. 

 Stamens aboye the middle of the tube, included ; anthers lanceolate, cells- 

 rounded at the base. Disc annular or obscure. Carpels 2, distinct ; style fili- 

 form, top broad thickened, stigma sometimes furnished with a reflexed mem- 

 brane, top 2-globos8 ; ovules many, 2-seriate in each cfirpel. Follicles 2, erects 

 slender. Seeds many, subterete or angled and compressed, truncate or winged 

 above and below, albumen fleshy ruminate ; cotyledons oblong, thick, radicle 

 superior. — Distkib. 2 species, Arabian and Indian. 



Xt. stricta, Deccnsne in Ann. Nat. Sc. ser. 2, iv. 81, and in Jacguem. Vay. 

 Bat. t. Ill ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate acute coriaceous, corolla^lobes ovate mu- 

 cronate. A. DC. JProdr. viii. 386 ; Brandis For. Fl. 322 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 

 47.— Apocyn. Wall. Cat. 7478. 



ScmDE ; Stocks ; in the Trans-Indian territory, common ; Salt-range, Fleming ;. 

 Peshawur, Stewart. — Distrib. Afghanistan, £eluchistan, Arabia. 



A small glabrous very stout erect sparingly branched leafy shrub. Leaves 3-4 

 by J— J in., yellowish and leathery when dry, sessile. Flowers in short axillary^ 

 stoutly branched cymes, shortly and stoutly pedicelled ; bracts subulate, persistent. 

 Caly3c4obes acute. Corolla white, tube J in., upper half inflated. Follicles erect,. 

 parallel, 2-3 by 5- in., slightly compressed, thinly coriaceous. Seeds j in. long, an- 

 gularly compressed, shortly winged. — There is no specimen of this on the sheet in 

 Wallieh's Herbarium to which his ticket. No. 7478, is attached, but the note on that 

 ticket is " Apocyn. (ex Koyleo in cujus Herbar. adsunt specim. et icon, pict.) viminea,. 

 subaphylla, Doab Hindostania, 182.5," leaves no doubt as to the plant meant ; added 

 to which the icon aUuded to, made by Eoyle's artists, is in the Kew collection of" 

 drawings. 



14. VZXrCA, Linn. 



Erect or procumbent herbs or shrubs. Leaves opposite. Flowers solitary,, 

 axillary. Ccdyx 5-parlite, eglandular, segments narrow. Corolla salver-shaped ; 

 tube cylindric, with usually reflexed hairs below the stamens ; throat constricted, 

 hairy or thickened ; lobes broad, overlapping to the left. Stamens above the 

 middle of the tube, included ; anthers various. Disc of 2 lai^e glands. Carpels 

 2, distinct ; style filiform, top thick, stigma annulate viscid sometimes witii a 

 reflected membrane, tip minute penicillate : ovules tS or more, 2-seriate in each 

 carpel. Follicles 2, slender, erect or spreading. Seeds subcylindric, truncate at 

 both ends, hilum lateral, albranen fleshy ; cotyledons ovate, radicle long superior.. 

 — DiSTKtB. About 10 species, European, Indian, American, and Madagascarian, 



V. EOSEA, Linn. (V. Gulielmi Waldemarii, Klotzsch in Seise Ft. Waldeim. Bot. t. 

 70) ; a West Indian plant, is much cultivated about pagodas, &c. ; it has obovate- 

 leaves and rosy flowers 1^-2 in. diam. 



V. pusilla, Mun-. in Act. Goett. 1772, 66, t. 2, fig, 1 ; annital, erect,, 

 glabrous, branched from the base, leaves lanceolate acuminate, flowers very 

 small subseasUe, sepals filiform. A. DC. Prodr. viii. 382 ; Dalz. ^ Gibs. Bomb 

 Fl. 144. V. parviflora, Betz Ohs. ii. n. 33; Roxh. Fl. Ind. ii. 1. Oatharan- 

 thus roseus, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 95. — Bheede Sort. Mai. ix. t. 33. 



Westebn H1MAIJ.TA ; Garwhal, alt. 2000 ft., Str, S[ Winterh. ; tTppEEB Gangbtic 

 Plaik, Soyle, &c. Throughout the Deccan, common. 



An erect, pale-green annual, 1-2 ft. high ; stem and branches acutely 4-angled. 

 Leaves lJ-2^ by §-J in., membranous, acuminate, margins minutely scabrid, stipular- 

 glands subulate ; petiole J in, or less, slender. Flowers 4 in. long, on short pedicels,, 

 white. Corolla mouth narrow, hairy ; throat glabrous, thickened. Follicles 2-3 in., 

 very slender, diverging, straight, membranous. Seeds ^ in., linear-oblong, eylindric„ 

 rounded at both ends; testa black, many-ribbed, ribs rough. 



