A powerful woody climber with a stem attaining a thickness of 
at the base, young branches, hairy with short brown hairs. Leaves 
opposite on long petioles 3 inches long, and one-eighth of an inch 
thick, hairy, blade orbicular-ovate, very shortly acuminate, base 
cordate, 6 inches long and as wide, above deep green glabrous shin- 
ing"with 8 pairs of impressed nerves, beneath nerves elevate, thickly 
covered with soft hairs, whitish, whole leaf soft membranous. Flo- 
wers in a terminal racemose cymes, opening one or two at a time, 
about 10 in number on a peduncle 4 inches long pubescent. Bracts 
ovate, acute, Pedicles half an inch long, Calyx, tubular 14 inch long 
with 5 acute, oblong lobes pinkish, but turning dark brown as the 
flower opens, Corolla tube one inch long and three eighths of an inch 
through at the thickest part, shortly narrowed at the base, then 
dilated rather abruptly with thick walls, hairy inside, limb widely 
spreading four inches across lobes, 5 broadly ovate rounded, clawed at 
the base, contort, each 1% inch across white, mouth of tube and the 
inner edge of each lobe yellow, Sta rao hs in the lower part of the tube 
at its thickest part 5 connivent, filament very short, another arrow 
shaped half an inch long, the base proi ongec j j nt0 tw0 i ong divaricate 
points, the tip produced into a long acuminate point all reddish 
yellow, Ovary conic grooved, style slendc r cylindric pubescent, pistil 
oblong 5 ribbed. Fruit 2 “follicles about I2 i n linear very pointed 
smooth, seed beaked, cpma 2 inches long copi ous /> 
Ceylon rather rare, low country to 2,00C) f eet> Kandy, Kalutura, 
Haduganawa. FI. April, May, Malabar. 
I have taken the description of the fruit ft ora Trimer’s flora of 
Ceylon. He says the corolla tube is glabrou- w ;t6i n an d only the 
filaments hairy. However, in our plant, the t^pe is also w 
great part of its length. The flowers are very fragrant. The latex 
produces very good Caoutchouc an account of which appeared in 
Bulletin, February 1910, p. 56, under the name of Chonemorpha macro- 
phylla. , 
The plant is well worth cultivating for its beautiful fragrant 
flowers appearing in March, though it is not very heavily floriferous. 
It seems to be somewhat difficult of propagation bufPcan be grown 
from cuttings. Our plant was obtained from the Pera^eniya Gardens 
on January, 15, 1882. 6 . macrophylla Hon, a native of Sylhet, is des- 
cribed by Roxburgh under the name of Echites macrophylla, Flora. 
Indica II 13. Clarke’s edition p. 246. I have seen no specimen of it. 
From Roxburgh's description it differs from C. Rheedei in its short 
petioled ovate entire leaves 10 to 12 inches] long and 7 to 10 inches 
wide. The tube of the corolla is gibbous immediately above the base, 
and the cymes are many flowered. It is reported to give a good 
class of rubber, as all the species appear to do. 
Ch. Penangensis n. s. p. 
A stout woody climber with hairy stems. Leaves obovate, ovate 
very broad shortly acuminate, base rounded not cordate 8-9 inches 
long, 6-7 inches wide, membranous above, hairy beneath pale, hainy, 
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