Ichnocarpus.} LIV. APOCYNE^. 327 



Flowers- in compact cymes, forming elongated panicles ; corolla- 

 tube barely \ in. long 1. /. fratescens. 



Flowers in lax pedunculate corymbose cymes ; corolla- tube \ in. 



long 2. I.fragrams. 



1. I. frutescens, E. Brown ; Wight Ic. t. 430. — Syn. Echites frutes- 

 cens, Eoxb. PI. Ind. ii. 12. Vern. Dudhi, Kamaon. 



A twining shrub; branchlets, inflorescence and under side of leaves wjth 

 rust-colouied pubescence. Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate -lanceolate, 

 acuminate. Flowers small (white, inodorous, Eoxh., greenish white, 

 sweet-scented, Voigt Hortus, 523), on short pedicels, in compact short, 

 trichotomous, pedunculate cymes, forming elongated leafy panicles. Calyx 

 with small hasal glands. Corolla hypocrateriform, tube barely \ in. long, 

 lobes lanceolate, twisted, hairy along the upper face. Ovaries distinct, 

 surrounded by 5 distinct hypogynous scales, as long as ovaries; style 1. 

 Fruit of 2 distinct linear, slender follicles, 2-3 in. long. Seeds numer- 

 ous, pendulous, a long tuft of hairs at the hilum. 



South and Central India, Bengal, Burma. In north-West India tnown to ex- 

 tend as far west as Delhi in the plains, and^to the Sutlej in the sub-Himalayan 

 tract. Indian Archipelago and Queensland. The root has been used as a sub- 

 stitute for sarsaparilla. 



I I! 2. I. fragrans. Wall. ; DC. Prodr. viii. 435.— Syn. (probably) Bldbe- 

 ropus liicidus, A. DC. ; Alstonia lucida, Don FL Nep. 131. Vern. Dudhi, 

 Kamaon. 



A climbing shrub ; glabrous, but branchlets, petioles and under side of 

 leaves often hairy. Leaves opposite, subooriaceous, shining above, eUip- 

 tic-oblong, acuminate, blade 4-5 in., petiole \ in. long. Flowers on slen- 

 der pedicels, in lax compound trichotomous pedunculate glabrous corym- 

 bose terminal and axillary cymes. CoroUa-tube \ in. long, 2-thirds of its 

 length narrow-tubular, suddenly widened above into a campanxdate mouth; 

 lobes oblong, nearly as long as tube, hairy on the upper side near the base. 

 Fruit of 2 distinct linear follicles, about 6 in. long, with numerous pendu- 

 lous seeds, not rostrate, a tuft of hairs at the hilum, 



North-West Himalaya, Kashmir to Nepal, ascending to 6000 ft. Bhutan, As- 

 sam. Fl. April-June. Somewhat similar to Pcurechites Thunbergii, A. Gray 

 {RhynchaspernvumjcLsminoides, Liudl.), from Japan and China. 



10. VALLARIS, Buim. 



1. V. dichotoma. Wall. ; Wight Ic. t. 438. — Syn. Echites diohotoma, 

 Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 19. Vern. Dudhi, Kamaon. 



A large twining shrub ; bark ash-coloured, glabrous, inflorescence only 

 pubescent. Leaves opposite, petiolate, elliptic - oblong, acuminate ; a 

 circle of small cylindric glands at the Insertion of the leaves. Flowers 

 white, fragrant, on slender pedicels, in axillary, 3 -10 -flowered cymes. 

 Corolla-tube short, cylindrical, limb large, spreading, f in. across. Ovary 



