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xci. apocynaceas. \Trachelospermum. 
30 . TRACHELOSPERMUM, Lemaire. 
Climbing shrub. Flowers rather large, white or purplish in 
lax terminal or axillary cymes. Calyx small with 5 or 10 scales 
or glands within. Corolla salver-shaped, tube cylindric, dilate 
round the stamens, constrict at mouth, lobes oblique, twisted to 
left, overlapping to right. Stamens from above the middle of 
tube; filaments broad; anthers sagittate, connivent and adhering 
to stigma, cells produced to spurs below. Disc various. Carpels 
longer than disc; stigma columnar, base ringed, tip conic. Follicles 
incurved, elongate. Seed linear, not beaked, plumose. Species 
about 8, Indo-Malaya to Japan. 
(1) T. Curtisii King and Gamble , l.c, 498. 
Climber; branches soft but moderately thick. Leaves mem¬ 
branous, elliptic or ovate abruptly acuminate, base cordate, 
strigose-hairy both sides, especially on nerves beneath; nerves 
thin, 8 to 10 pairs, reticulations conspicuous; 3 to 5 in. long, 2 to 
3 in. wide; petioles *3 to *5 in. long, villous. Cymes corymbose, 
terminal, sessile, 2 in. long, 3 in. wide, puberulous. Flowers white, 
fragrant. Calyx-lobes narrow linear-lanceolate, pubescent. Corolla- 
tube *5 to - 6 in. long, gradually narrowed from the dilate base, 
lobes oblique, triangular, dentate, •2 in. long. Follicles 8 to 9 in. 
long, ‘25 in. through, falcate, flattened not enlarged at base. Seed 
oblong, *7 to *8 in. long, '2 in. wide, base acute, plume 1 to 1*5 in. 
long. Hab. Perak, Larut (Kunstler). Penang, Balik Pulau 
(Curtis). Local, not common. 
31 . EPIGYNUM, Wight. 
Slender climbing shrub. Flowers white, fragrant, medium 
size, white-tomentose in dense heads at the ends of branches. 
Calyx-lobes narrow. Corolla-tube long flask-shaped, dilate at base, 
throat villous, lobes rounded. Stamens below the middle of tube; 
anthers linear sagittate, connivent, cells spurred. Disc 5-lobed 
lining the calyx-tube. Follicles linear terete. Seed long, tip 
broad, plumed. Species 4 to 5, Malaya. 
Leaves elliptic, glabrous beneath 
Leaves elliptic tomentose . 
Leaves lanceolate; corolla-tube - 6 in. long 
Leaves lanceolate; corolla-tube 1 in. long 
. (1) E. perakense 
. (2) E. Maingayi 
. (3) E. Curtisii 
. (4) E. Ridleyi 
(1) E. perakense King and Gamble , l.c. 500. 
Climber 10 to 20 ft. long. Leaves membranous, elliptic acute, 
base shortly cuneate; nerves 6 to 7 pairs, elevate beneath; glabrous 
when adult, 2 to 4 in. long, 1*5 to 2*5 in. wide. Cymes terminal 
and axillary grey tomentose, 1*5 to 2 in. long and wide. Calyx 
small, lobes ovate acute. Corolla-tube cylindric, dilate below, 
*6 to 7 in. long, grey-tomentose, lobes '25 in. long, oblong crenulate. 
Follicles 10 to 12 long, tomentose, torulose slender acuminate. 
