456 LXXIII. APOCYXACE^ [Carisi^a 



larger, fr. ^-1 in. long, 4- or iiiore-beeded, black wlien ripe. Probably the cultivated 

 form of 1. 



3. C. paueinervia, A. DO. ; Wiglit Ic. 1290. ^silgiris. A small shrub, 1. glabrous, 

 lanceolate, 1-1^ in., sepals linear-lanceolate, corolla white, tinged with pink, fr. ovoid 

 J in. long. 



B. Spines deciirved. 



4. C, macrophylla, "Wall. (C. DaJzeUU, Bedd.). "Western G-hats from North Kanara 

 to Tinnevelli, a lai-ge shrub, spines 1-1} in. long, flowering branches unarmed, 1. 

 shining, drying dark brown, 2-4 in. long, ending in a fine, sharp point, corolla-tube 1. 

 lobes .} in., berry ellipsoid, 1 in. long. 5. C. suavissima, Bedd. Madura Hills. Korth 

 Kanara and Konkan G-hats (Talbot). A loftj^ climber, entirely glabrous, spines small, 

 corolla-tube % in. long, fr. ovoid nearly 2 in. long very milky, most delicious. 



2. MELODINUS, Forst. ; Tl. Brit. Ind. iii. 628. 



Evergreen, erect or climbing shrubs. Corolla salver-shaped, mouth with 

 thick more or less lobed scales, left hand edge of lobes overlapping. Anthers 

 included, on very short filaments, cells obtnse at the base. Ovary 2-celled, 

 ovules CO on a thick placenta. Fr. globose, pericarp coriaceous, seeds numerous 

 imbedded in pnlp, cotyledons thin flat, in flesliy albumen. 



1. M. monogynus, Eoxb. ; Wight Ic. t. 394, Assam, Khasi hills, Manipur. China. 

 Malay Peninsula. A tall climber, 1. glabrous, chartaceous, elliptic-oblong, acuminate, 

 blade 5-6, pet. J in., sec. n. slender, 15-20 pair with numerous shorter intermediate 

 nerves between. Fl. white large, in terminal compound trichotomous slightly 

 puberulous cymes, corolla-tube villous within, |-| in. long, lobes as long as tube. Pr. 

 size and colour of an orange. 2. M. iLbasianus, Hook f., Khasi hills. Shwebo district, 

 Upper Burma {Xycmsein nice) in evergreen forest at 3,000 ft. Climbing, 1. membranous, 

 fl. yellow or white, corolla-tube | in., lobes short, fr. white 1^ in. diam. 



WincMa calopliylla» A. DC. Martaban. A climbing glabrous evergreen shrub, 1. 

 often in whorls of 3, thinly coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, obtusely caudate, blade 3-4, 

 pet. 1 in. long, sec. n. oo, close together, at right angles to midrib. Corolla-tube -J-J 

 in., mon.th without scales, lobes short, white, velvety. 



Allamanda cathartica, Linn. Indigenous in Central America, the A¥est Indies and 

 Brazil, largely cultivated and sometimes run wild in India and Burma. A large ever- 

 green glabrous shrub, 1, often whorled, lanceolate to oblanceolate, blade 2-4 in. long, 

 narrowed into the short petiole, ii. yellow, corolla large, tube 1 in. long, limb cam- 

 panulate, longer than tube. Capsule compound, echinate, 2-valved, cotyledons leafy, 

 in scanty albumen. 



Willughbeia edulis, Roxb. Cor. PL t. 280. — Syn. W. martahanica, "Wall. PI. As. Ear. t. 

 272. Vern. Thitchauk nwe, Talaing no, Burm. Assam, Silhet, Cachar, Chittagong, 

 Lower Burma. Malay Penins. aud Archip. An immense glabrous climber, with long 

 branched tendrils, 1. thinly coriaceous, elongate-elliptic, blade 4-10, pet. J in. long, 

 sec. n. prominent, nearly straight, 15-20 pair. PL white, in small few-fld. shortly 

 peduncled axillary cymes, calyx-lobes short, rounded, ciliate, corolla-tube J, lobes J in. 

 long, Pr. yellow, edible, 3-4 in. long, seeds large, numerous, embedded in soft fibrous 

 pulp, albumen 0, cotyledons plano-convex. Yields an inferior kind of Caoutchouc. 

 W. firma, Blume, of Sumatra and Borneo, yields the Borneo Caoutchouc, H. Jumelle, 

 Les plantes a Caoutchouc et a Grutta. Paris 1903. p. 395. 



Clxilocarpus atroviridis, Blume (<7. malaharicus, Bedd. Ic. t, 175 ; WincMa atroviridis 

 Kurz). South Kanara, Malabar and Travancore in evergreen forests. Tavoy and 

 Mergui. A large woody climber, I. thinly ^ coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, acuminate, 

 blade 4-5, pet. J in., sec, n. numerous, slender, joined by a distinct intra-marginal vein. 

 PL yellow in axillary trichotomous cymes, shorter than L, corolla J in., lobes short obtuse, 

 the left hand edge overlapping. 



3. RAU WOLFIA, Linn. ; M. Brit, Ind. iii. 632. 



Glabrous sbrubs, 1. usually 3-4-nately wborled. Peduncles in the axils of 

 the uppermost 1. Calyx 5-fid., corolla salyer-sbaped, tube hairy witltin, inflated 

 over the anthers, the cells of which are rounded at the base. Disk large, cup- 

 shaped or annular, entire or lobed. Carpels 2, distinct or connate, ovules 2 

 collateral in each carpel, ^r. of 2 connate or distinct 1-seeded drupes, coty- 



