Alyxia
(said to be the native Indian name of one of the species). SYN. Gynopogon. ORD. Apocynaceae. A genus embracing about thirty species of stove, often glabrous shrubs, inhabiting Eastern tropical Asia, the Malayan Archipelago, Ceylon, Madagascar, tropical Australia, and the Pacific Islands. Flowers rather small, twin or cymose; calyx five-parted, glandless; corolla salver-shaped, with a cylindrical tube and five twisted lobes; stamens included. Leaves whorled in threes or fours, or rarely opposite, coriaceous, shining, penniveined. The best-known species are here described. They thrive in a mixture of sandy loam and a little peat. Cuttings of ripened wood will root freely if inserted in pots of sand, under glass, and plunged in heat.
A. bracteolosa (slightly bracteate). fl. pale yellow, with a long tube; cymes axillary, many-flowered, shortly pedunculate. l. in threes, oblong or sub-lanceolate, obtuse or acuminate at apex rounded or acute at base. Fiji, 1887. Climber.
A. daphnoides (Daphne-like). fl. yellowish-white, sessile, axillary and terminal, solitary. April. l. in fours, obovate-oblong, elliptic, or rhomboid, obtuse, shining, 1/2in. to 3/4in. long. h. 4ft. Norfolk Island, 1831. (B.M. 3313.) A. ruscifolia (Butcher's-broom-leaved). fl. white, small, sessile, in sessile, terminal heads. July. l. whorled, broadly ovate-elliptic to narrow-lanceolate, acute, with a short, pungent point, 3/4in. to 1 1/2in. long, shortly petiolate, the margins recurved or revolute. Australia, 1820. A tall, handsome shrub. (B.M. 3312; L.B.C. 1811.)