Mhynchodia.] xciv. apocynacej!. (J. D. Hooker.) 667 



Calyx S-partite or -fid, glandular within. Corolla salTer-shaped, throat con- 

 -tracted, villous ; lohes large, broad, obliquely obcuneate, overlapping to 

 the right, twisted to the left. Stamem in the middle of the tube, filaments 

 broad short ; anthers sagittate, conniving round and adhering to the stigma, 

 ■cells shortly spurred below. Disc annular, 5-fld. Carpels 2, distinct, glabrous, 

 longer than the disc, many-ovuled ; style filiform, top elavate truncate, stigma 

 columnar. Follicles elongate, narrow, compressed. Seeds ovate or oblong, 

 •compressed, beak slender, tipped by a deciduous coma. 



■" Xt. WaUichli, Benth. in Oem. PI. ii. 720; glabrous, leaves elliptic ovate 

 ■or oblong cuspidate or caudate-acuminate, cymes dichotomous loose, peduncles 

 and pedicels slender. Rhynchospermum Walliohii and K. ellipticum, A. DC. 

 Prodr. viii. 431. Echites rhynchosperma. Wall. PI. As. Par. i. 43, t. 49 ; Cat. 

 1665. E. elliptica, Wall. Cat. 1666. Echites verticalis, Herb. Mam. Oerco- 

 coma Wallichii, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 445 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 187. 



SiKKiM HmixAYA, alt. 2500 ft. ; Treutler. Silhet; De Siiva. Assam; Slasters. 

 •Cachae ; Keenan. Mabtaban, Tenasseeim and Ava ; WalUch, Kurz. 



Branches distantly tubercled. Leaves 5-9 by 2-4 in., base acute, rounded or 

 Tarely cordate ; petiole slender, 1 in. Cymes 2-4 in. diam. ; flowers white, fragrant ; 

 peduncle 1-3 in. Calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate, half as long as the corolla-tube. 

 Corolla glabrous, except round the mouth ; tube J in., 6-angled ; limb 1 in. diam. ; 

 lobes narrowly obovate. Follicles 12-18 by ^-J in., smooth. Seeds 1 in., beak as 

 long as the body, hairs rather longer, white. — This genus might well form a section of 

 TracheUspermmn. 



36. TBACKEIiOSFESllETrnZ, Lemaire. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite, nerves distant. Flowers white or pur- 

 plish, in lax terminal or pseudo-axiUary cymes. Calyx small, 5-partite, 

 glandular or scaly within. Corolla salver-shaped, mouth constricted ; lobes 

 ■oblique, overlapping to the right, twisted to the left. Stamens above the 

 middle of the tube, tips included or exserted, filaments short, broad ; anthers 

 conniving over and adhering to the stigma, cells spurred at the base. Disc 

 -annular or of oblong glands. Carpels 2, distinct, many-ovuled ; style short, top 

 cupular, stigma columnar. Follicles elongate, slender, incurved, terete. Seeds 

 linear, not beaked, coma long, albumen copious ; cotyledons linear, flat, radicle 

 ■short. — DlBTRiB. Species 8, East Asiatic and Malayan. 



* Cymes in the upper axils, long-peduncled. Cordla-tuhe slender, much longer 

 than the calyx. 



1. T. fragrans, Hooh.f.; leaves elliptic-lanceolate obtusely acuminate, 

 ■cymes loosely panicled, peduncles and pedicels slender, sepals ovate or lanceolate, 

 ■coroUar-lobes at base and mouth pubescent, anthers included. Ichnocarpus 

 fragrans. Wall. Cat. 1675 ; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 435 ; Brand. For. Fl. 327. I. 

 f inflata, Ser5. Sam. in Wall. I.e. Blaberopus lucidus, A. DC. I.e. 411. 

 Alstonia lucida, Don Prodr. 231. 



Tempbeatb and Stteteopical Himalaya ; from Kumaon, ascending to 8,700 ft. 

 to Bhotan, exclusive of Sikkim. Assam ; Muku hills, Simonds. Cacbae ; Keenan. 



A tall climber, shoots and petioles sometimes pubescent. Leaves 3-5 by 1-1 J in. ; 

 petiole i-i in. Peduncles 1-3 in., very slender, stout, angular, trichotomously 

 branched. Sepals ^-^ the length of the corolla-tube. Corolla white, tube slender, 

 -with the throat i-J in. ; lobes obcuneate, obliquely truncate. Disc-glands quadrate. 

 Ovary glabrous, acute. Follicles 4-9 by i in., incurved and converging, cylindric, 

 iicuminate, narrowed at the base; pericarp thinly coriaceous, smooth, pale. Seeds 



