Ichnocarpus
(from ichnos, a vestige, and karpos, a fruit; in reference to the slender follicles.) SYNS. Aganosma, Springia. ORD. Apocynaceoe. A genus comprising nine species of tall climbing stove shrubs, natives of the East Indies, the Malayan Archipelago, Eastern Asia, and tropical Australia. For culture, see Dipladenia. According to Bentham and Hooker, the plants described under Aganosma should be included here.
I. frutescens (shrubby). fl. purple, small; corolla salver-shaped; peduncles axillary, very long, racemose. July and August. l. opposite, oblong-lanceolate, glabrous. Tropical Asia and Australia, 1759.