isa 



(1) S. Indica. (R. W.J 



IdfinL Wight's 111. vol. II. p. 229. t. 181. 



Spec. Char. Tree : leases broad ovate-oval, obtuse, glabi;ou.s t 

 panicles terminal and axillary, diffuse : flowers longish-pedicelled i 

 bracts somewhat persistent : berry about twice the lengt.h of the, 

 calyx, red, emj)raced by the withering corolla : flowers white. 



(pommon everywhere, in low damp ground. 



ORDER CVII. APOCYNACE.ffi^, 



Calyx free, 5-partecl, persistent, lobes usually furnished wit^ 

 -in with scales ; sestivatiou cpntorto-imbrioated ; stamens -5, 

 arising from within the tube of the corolla, alternate with its. 

 lobes ; filaments distinct ; anthers a,dhering firmly to the stigma, 

 2-celled, opening longitudina.lly ; pollen granular, globose, or 3- 

 lobed, immediately applied to the stigma ; ovary free, usually 

 embraced at the base by a flashy nectary composed of 5; gl^da 

 placed opposite the lobes of the calyx, single or double ;. when, 

 gingle. 2-or rarely 1-celled ; when double, united at the apex 

 into the single style ; ovules usually numerous, amphiti^pous or, 

 nearly anatropous ; style simple ; stigma fregueptly enlarged at 

 the base, expanding into a ring or Qampaniilaite membrane, con- 

 tracted in the middle, and siiqple or 2-cleft, pointed or dilated 

 at the apex ; fruit follicular, capsular, baccate or drupaceous ; 

 seed usually pendulous, sometimes ascending, naked, or va- 

 riously comose, sometimes winged, o&len albuminous ; embryo 

 straight ; radicle usually superior, cotyledons flat, rarely convo- 

 lute. — Trees, shrubs or ,undershrubs, rarely herbaceous, with 

 milky juice; stems frequently twining; leaves opposite, or. 

 vhoi'led, rarely alternate, simple, entire, rarely stipuled, but 

 often having gla,nds in me place of stipules ; flowers usually 

 cymose, sometimes racemose, regul?br, .often large and hand- 

 eoine. 



