^trophcmthus.'] xciv. apoctnacbj!. (J. D. Hookeri) 657 



•only Wallieh's very mutilated flowers, shriyelled leaves, dehisced pods and seeds, 

 which latter entirely resemble those of a WHffhtia. 



26. APOCVXrVM, Zimi. 



Elect herlDS or uhdershru'bs. Leaves opposite. OymeB terminal and lateral ; 

 flowers small. Cdyx 5-fid, eglandular within ; lobes acute. Corolla campanu- 

 'late, 5-fid, with 5 processes between the stamens ; lobes overlapping to the 

 light. Stamens near the base of the coroUa, included ; anthers sagittate, acute, 

 •conniving and adnate to the stigma, cells with basal spurs. Disc fleshy, 6-lobed. 

 Carpels 2, distinct, many-ovuled, half sunk in the disc, to which they are adnate 

 by the back ; style short or 0, stigma subglobose, tip 2-lobed. Follicles slender. 

 Seeds small, oblong, with a terminal caducous coma, albumen scanty, eotyle- 

 •dons flat. — ^Distrib. Species 6, of the north temp. zone. 



A. venetum, lann,:, A. DC. Jh-odr. viii. 400; JBoiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 48. 



Westeen TtBBT ; Shayuk valley, alt. 8000 ft. (•without flower or fruit), Thomson. 

 — DisTKiB. N. Asia, from the Caucasus to China, Persia, Asia Minor, Greece, Dalmatia. 



Stem and branches slender, smooth, cylindric. Leaves 2-3 by ^-| in., linear- 

 'cblong or oblong-lanceolate, apiculate, entire or crenulate ; nerves very slender ; 

 petiole very short. Cymes small, erect, subcorymbose ; bracts subulate. Flowers 

 -erect, ^ in. diam., purplish, puberulous. Carpels with pubescent tips. FoUicIes 4 in. 

 — Though I have seen neither flower nor fruit, I cannot doubt this being the common 

 ■A. venetum. 



27. TTRCEOXiA, Hoxb. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite, nerves distant. Flowers small, in dense 

 •corymbosely panicled cymes. Calyx 6-partite, eglandular within. Corolla 

 Tirceolate or subglobose, throat naked ; lobes short, valvate. Stamens at the 

 lase of the corolla ; anthers sagittate, conniving over and adhering to the stigma, 

 •cells spurred at the base. Disc cupular or annular, truncate or 6-lobed. Carpels 

 2, distinct, longer than the disc, truncate, hirsute, many-ovuled ; style short, 

 top obconic ; stigma subannulate, conoid. Follicles spreading, thick and acumi- 

 Mate, or elongate and contracted or not between the seeds. Seeds oblong or 

 iinear, compressed, villous, tip contracted bearded with long persistent brown 

 hairs, and crowned with a long white deciduous coma, albumen scanty ; cotyle- 

 dons thin, radicle short. — Distbib. Species 7 or 8, Malayan. 



Sect. I. TTrceola proper. Follicles straight, even, horizontally diver- 

 •gent. Calyx longer than the corolla, 2 interior segments much smaller than 

 the others. 



1. TT. elastica, Hoxb. in As. Res. v. 167, withjigure {excl. fruit); branches 

 Tobust, leaves beneath and inflorescence finely rusty pubescent, leaves elliptic 

 .abruptly acuminate thickly coriaceous, nerves 10-12 pairs very strong, cymes 

 very dense-fld., bracts subulate, calyx-segments lanceolate recurved, foUicles 

 cylindric. A. DC. Prodr. 358 ; Wight Ic. t. 473 (exel. figures and descriptions 

 ■of fruit). Tabernsemontana elastica, Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 639. ? Vahea gummi- 

 ifera. Pair. Diet. Svppl. v. 409. 



Malacca and Penang ; Boxbwrgh, Wallich, Griffith, MaingoA/ {JK.ew Diatnb. 1058, 

 1091). — DisTKiB. Sumatra. 



A stout climber. Leaves 4-6 by 2-3 in., red-brown when dry, softly pubescent 

 beneath, glabrous above with impressed nearly horizontal nerves ; petiole \-^ in. 

 •Cymes numerous, panicled at the ends of the branches, long-peduncled ; flowers in 

 compound corymbs, very densely packed. Calyx ^ in. long, exceeding the ovoid 

 pubescent coroUa, which is glabrous within except a tuft of reflexed hairs between 



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