738 APOCYNACEAE. | Parsonsia. 
Fruit elongated, cylindric, of 2 coherent follicles which ultimately more 
or less separate from one another. Seeds linear or oblong, numerous, with 
a tuft of long silky hairs at the tip. 
A small genus of about 12 species, found in tropical Asia, the Malay Archipelago, 
Australia, and New Zealand. Both the New Zealand species are endemic. 
Flowers Lin. long. Calyx 4 as long as the corolla-tube. Anthers 
included .. 5. \y 
Flowers 4 in. long. Calyx about as long as the corolla-tube. Anthers 
exserted .. ¥. # — A we .. 2. P. capsularis. 
1. P. heterophylla. 
1. P. heterophylla A. Cunn. Precur. aR n. 402.—A tall and slender 
branching climber, often ascending trees to a considerable height ; stems 
tough and pliant, in old specimens woody towards the base; young 
branchlets terete, more or less pubescent. Leaves extraordinarily variable 
in size and shape; of young plants 1—5in. long, narrow-linear, linear- or 
oblong-spathulate, or linear-oblong, entire or irregularly sinuate or pro- 
vided with 2—4 rounded lobes on each side, sometimes linear and expanding 
at the tip into an oblong or rounded. blade ; of mature plants 14-34in. 
long, usually from ovate or oblong-ovate to ovate-lanceolate or elliptic- 
lanceolate, sometimes obovate, more rarely- narrower and lanceolate or 
linear, acute, petiolate, coriaceous, deep shining-green above, paler beneath, 
veins transverse. Cymes large, many-flowered, 14-4in. long, terminal 
and axillary. Flowers white, sweet-scented, +in. long. Calyx-lobes about 
+ as long as the corolla-tube. Corolla with a long tube often inflated below 
the throat; lobes much shorter than the tube. Anthers included within 
the corolla-tube. Capsule 3-61in. long, terete, acute.—Hook. f. Fl. Nov. 
Zel, 1 (1853) 181; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 440; Jl. N.Z. Fl. ii 
(1914) t. 135. P. albiflora Raoul Choix (1846) 17; Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. 
Fl. (1864) 187. PR. variabilis Lindl. in Journ. Hort. Soc. v (1850) 196. 
P. macrocarpa Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiv (1882) 331. | 
North AND SoutTsH ISLaAnps, Stewart Istanp: Abundant from the Three Kings 
Islands and the North Cape to Foveaux Strait, less common in Stewart Island. 
Sea-level to 3000 ft. Kaiku ; Kaiwhiria. Novem ber—March. (ow 14st 
I have restored Cunningham’s name for this species, it having at least five years’ 
priority over that of Raoul. For some remarks on the extraordinary heterophylly 
of the species, see the plate and remarks thereon given in my IlIlustrations. 
{nd ) 
2. P. capsularis, R. Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. i (1809) 65.— Habit of 
P. heterophylla, but smaller and more slender. Leaves equally variable, 
of young plants ?-3in. long, narrow-linear or lanceolate to spathulate, 
entire or sinuate or irregularly lobed; of adult plants varying from 
extremely narrow-linear, 1-4in. long by sometimes barely 4, in. broad, 
to oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 1-24in. long by 4-3in. broad, obtuse or 
subacute, coriaceous; margins usually entire. Cymes few or many- 
flowered, axillary and terminal, usually shorter than the leaves. Flowers 
small, gin. long. Calyx-lobes equalling the corolla-tube or very little 
shorter, Corolla campanulate, tube short; lobes revolute, as long as the 
tube. Anthers exserted—A. DO in DO. Prodr. viii (1844) 401 (in part) ; 
Raoul Choix (1846) 17; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 180. P. rosea Raoul 
lc. 16 ; Hook. f. l.c.; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 188. P. Forsteri G. Don 
Gen. Syst. iv (1838) 79. P. ochraceae Ool. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxii (1890) 
480. Periploca capsularis Forst. f. Prodr. (1786) n. 126: A. Rich. Fl. Now. 
Zel. (1832) 205, 
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