976 LXXIX. APOCYNACE^. 



1. CHILOCARPUS, Blume. 



(From chUos, fodder, and karpos, fruit ; fruit eaten.) 



Calyx without glands. Corolla-tube cylindrical, slightly swollen round the 

 anthers ; lobes spreading, without scales at the throat, contorted in the bud. 

 Anthers lanceolate, included in the tube. Ovary single, 1-celled, with 2 parietal 

 placentas and numerous ovules. Style single with a thickened mitriform stigma. 

 Berry ovoid, indehiscent. Seeds numerous, very rugose, without hairs ; albumen 

 copious ; cotyledons cordate-ovate, flat. — Tall woody climber. Leaves opposite. 

 Flowers small in nearly sessile axillary cymes. 



Besides the Australian species, which is endemic, there are two or three from the Indian 

 Archipelago and Malayan Peninsula. 



1. C. australis (Australian), F. v. M. Fragm. ii. QO;.Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 iv. 303. " Paiamara," Tully River, Roth ; " Wongali," Barron Eiver, 

 Cowley. A tall woody climber, quite glabrous. Leaves elliptical-oblong, 

 shortly acuminate, sessile and rounded at the base or narrowed into a short 

 petiole, penniveined, the veins more distant and less regular than in the 

 Javanese species, 2 to 4in. long. Peduncles axillary, very short, with about 

 5 flowers, or the flowers more numerous in almost sessile cymes. Bracts 

 minute. Calyx-segments about f line long, orbicular, very obtuse, shghtly 

 fringed. Corolla yellow, the tube slender, about 2 lines long, the lobes very 

 broad, about 1 line long, oblique or slightly aurioulate at the base on the inner 

 angle, the left-hand edge overlapping in the bud. Anthers in the middle of the 

 tube. Fruit about 2in. long. Seeds enveloped in the pulp, ovate, compressed, 

 about 3 lines long, very rugose; albumen much ruminate ; embryo excentrical. — 

 Melodinus chilocarpoides, F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 118. 



Hab.: Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; Rockhampton, Thozet; Crocodile Creek, Bowman; not 

 uncommon both north and south. Fruit eaten by natives. 



2. MELODINUS, Forst. 

 (Referring to supposed apple-like fruit and climbing stems.) 



Calyx without any or with very few small glands. Corolla-tube cylindrical, 

 slightly swollen round the anthers ; lobes spreading, contorted in the bud ; 

 throat with 5 or 10 small erect scales, either free or united in a ring or cup. 

 Anthers oblong or lanceolate, included in the corolla-tube. Ovary single, 

 2-celled ; ovules numerous ; style filiform, with a thickened conical stigma. 

 Fruit ovoid or globular, succulent, indehiscent. Seeds (where known) without 

 hairs, albuminous. — Tall woody climbers. Leaves opposite. Flowers in terminal 

 or axillary cymes, rarely reduced to very few or single flowers. Bracts very 

 small. 



A small genus, extending over tropical Asia and the islands of the South Pacific. 

 Pubescent. Peduncles solitary, 3-flowered. Corolla-lobes shorter than the 



<'"be ■ • ■ , • ■ • •. ■ , 1. M. acutiflorm. 



Glabrous. Peduncles usually 2 in each axil, 1-flowered. Corolla-lobes as 



long as the tijbe 2. M. Guilfoylei. 



Pubescent. Fruit Sin. long S. M. Murpe. 



1. M. acutiflorus (acute flowers), F. v. M. in Trans. Phil. Soc. Vict. ii. 71 ; 

 Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 304. Branches and under side of the leaves softly 

 pubescent. Leaves shortly petiolate, broadly lanceolate or the lower ones 

 almost ovate, obtusely acuminate, glabrous above, penniveined with the principal 

 veins rather distant, 3 to 4in. long. Peduncles axillary, not much longer than 

 the petioles, 3-flowered, pubescent. Oalyx-segments acuminate, rather above 

 1 line long, with a few small glands inside at the base. Corolla-tube nearly 



