Alstonia.] LXXIX. AJPOCYNACE.*!. &8T 



white curly hairs, no ring of hairs at the orifice, but a rather broad band of short 

 hairs below where the anthers are attached to the tube. Ovary glabrous. 

 Follicles 10 to 15in. long, Seeds flat, oblong, covered on both faces with short 

 brown hairs, and ciliate with long bright-brown hairs, which at each end exceed 

 in length that of the seed itself. 



Hab.: Near Mr. Jardine's house, Somerset. 



This species is probably nearly allied to A. macrophtjlla, Wall., in Hook. Fl. of Biit. Ind. 



It is probable this tree might yield a rubber, this material being obtained from other species 

 of the genus, and the present one gives a good flow of milky sap. 



9. TABfeRNiEMONTANA, Linn. 



(After James Theodore- Tabernamontanus.) 



Calyx with a ring of small linear glands inside at the base. Corolla-tube 

 cylindrical, slightly swollen round the anthers, the lobes spreading, contorted 

 in the bud, the throat without scales. Anthers enclosed in the tube. No 

 hypogynous glands or scales. Ovary of 2 distinct carpels, united by the style ; 

 stigma thickened, usually with a membranous ring round the base ; ovules 

 numerous in each cell, in .3 or 4 rows. Fruit of 2 (or 1 by abortion) obliquely 

 oblong or nearly glolaular carpels, distinct or rarely united at the base, more 

 or less fleshy or pulpy, either indehiscent or tardily opening along the inner 

 face. Seeds without hairs ; albumen fleshy.— Trees or shrubs, the branches 

 often dichotomous. Leaves opposite, one of each pair often smaller than the 

 other. Flowers in axillary cymes, usually 2 at the ends of the branches (in the 

 axils of the terminal pair of leaves) or only in the axil of the smaller leaf. 

 Bracts usually very small. 



A considerable genua, spread over the tropical, regions of the New as well as the Old World. 

 Of the 2 Australian species, one extends to Timor and to the S. Pacific Islands, the other, if 

 really distinct, appears to be endemic. — Benth. 



Quite glabrous. Calyx-segments scarcely obtuse . . 1. T. orientalis' 



Foliage pubescent. Calyx-segments very obtuse 2. T. pubescens'. 



1. T. orientalis (eastern), R. Br. Prod. 468 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 311. 

 A dichotomously-branched shrub or small tree, quite glabrous. Leaves elliptical- 

 oblong, obtusely acuminate, narrowed into a petiole sometimes very short, 

 more frequently J to Jin. long, distantly penniveined, 2 to 4in. long or some- 

 times longer (on the normal or northern plants the leaves are often much 

 larger). Cymes pedunculate, 2 together at the ends or in the forks of the 

 branches, or becoming lateral by the development of only one fork, loose and 

 several-flowered but shorter than the leaves. Pedicels as long as or longer than 

 the calyx. Calyx-segments acuminate or almost obtuse in the northern speci- 

 mens, about 1 line long, with 2 to 4 minute glands inside at the base of each. 

 Corolla-tube usually 5 to 6 lines long, the lobes at least half as long as the tube, 

 obliquely oval-oblong. Ovary glabrous, on a thick torus. Carpels of the fruit 

 ovoid-falcate, usually about |in. long, but variable in size, and more or Itfr 

 prominently 3-angled. Seeds 3 or 4 in each carpel, ovate, deeply furrowed or 

 concave on the inner face. — A. DC. Prod. viii. 871. 



Hab.: Cape York, M'GilUvray, Daimel ; Brisbane Kiver, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham and 

 ethers. In fruit, September to December. 



Wood of a uniform yellow, close-grained. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 283. 



Leaves sometimes infested with the fungus-blight Mcidiwm apocyni, Sch. 



Var. angustisepala, Calyx-Segments lanceolate, acuminate. Hab.: Towards the Tweed Eiver. 



Var. angustifolia. Leaves oblong-lanctolate. Calyx-segments very narrow, acuminate. 

 Fruits acuminate, about lin. long. — The common form in southern localities. 



