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XCI. APOCYNACEjE. 
[Ichnocarpus. 
28 . ICHNOCARPUS, Br. 
Climbing shrubs. Panicled cymes, lax, many-flowered, terminal 
and axillary. Flowers small, white. Calyx-lobes ovate acute, 
no glands. Corolla salver-shaped, throat villous, lobes overlapping 
to right narrowed to a blunt point. Stamens from the middle of 
the tube or below; anthers sagittate, connivent and adherent to 
the stigma, cells spurred. Disc 5-lobed. Carpels distinct, hairy. 
Style short, top obconic; stigma columnar. Follicles 2, slender. 
Seeds oblong, tip narrowed, plumed. Species 5 or 6, Indo-Malaya, 
Australia. 
Leaves elliptic, under 1*5 in. wide; panicle narrow 
tomentose .(1) I. frutescens 
Leaves ovate, over 1*5 in. wide; panicle wide, glabrous (2) I. ovalifolius 
(1) I. frutescens Ait. Hort. Kew (ed. 2) ii. 69; King, l.c. 493. 
Slender woody tomentose climber about 20 ft. long. Leaves 
elliptic lanceolate or oblong acuminate, base round, glabrous above, 
tomentose especially on elevate midrib beneath, or glabrous; 
nerves 5 to 7 pairs, slender elevate, reticulations fine conspicuous 
in young leaves; 2 to 4-5 in. long, 75 to 1-5 in. wide; petioles 
tomentose, *i to *3 in. long. Cymes panicled, axillary and terminal, 
tomentose; panicles 2 to 2’5 in. long with distant short *5 in. 
long branches each bearing a cymule of a number of small white 
flowers. Calyx-lobes tomentose, ovate-lanceolate, *05 in. long. 
Corolla-tube -i in. long, base cylindric above globose tomentose, 
lobes glabrous, *2 in. long, linear falcate, hairy inside. Follicles 
slender, cylindric, 3 to 6 in. long, -i to '15 in. through. Seed 
linear, cylindric, *4 to 75 in. long, plume scanty, 1 in. long. Hab. 
Perak, Bujong Malacca; and Coping (Kunstler); Changkat 
Mentri (Kloss). Not common. Distrib. Indo-Malaya, Australia. 
(2) I. ovalifolius A. DC. Prodr. viii. 435; King, l.c. 494. 
A straggling climber. Leaves chartaceous, ovate to elliptic 
acute, glabrous except the villous midrib beneath; nerves 5 to 6 
pairs, reticulations netted, conspicuous in young leaves; 3 to 
6 in. long, 1-5 to 3 in. wide; petioles *4 to ’6 in. long, pubescent. 
Panicles 3 in. long, axillary and terminal as in frutescens, but 
cymules larger very pubescent. Calyx campanulate, lobes ovate 
acute, *06 in. long/ Corolla ‘i in. long cylindric then dilate, lobes 
*15 in. long, linear falcate. Follicles cylindric, dilate at base and 
gradually narrowed, 7 in. long, ‘15 in. through, plume 1 in. long, 
white. Hab. River banks and woods, not rare, fragrant. Johor, 
Kota Tinggi; Pahang River, Pulau Manis; Gunong Senyum and 
Tongkat (Evans). Selangor, Ivwala Lumpur. Perak, Ulu Bubong 
(Kunstler); Ulu Temengoh. Province Wellesley, Krian. Penang, 
Batu Feringhi; Tanjong Bunga (Curtis). Distrib. India, Malay 
Archipelago. 
