Vallaris
(perhaps from vallo, to inclose; the plants are said to be used in Java for fences). SYNS. Emericia, Peltanthera. ORD. Apocynaceae. A small genus (five or six species) of tropical Asiatic and Malayan, stove, twining shrubs. Flowers white, cymose or fascicled; calyx five-parted, glandular or not within; corolla salver-shaped, with a short tube, a naked throat, and broad lobes; stamens at the top of the tube, the filaments very short, clavate. Leaves opposite, minutely dotted. For culture of V. Pergularia, the only species introduced, see Vallesia.
V. Pergularia (Pergularia). fl. with a disagreeable, goat-like smell; cymes glabrous or puberulous. l. broadly elliptic or obovate, or rounded abruptly, shortly acute, membranous, 4in. to 7in. long, 3in. to 4in. broad, glabrous or puberulous beneath; petioles 1in. to 1 1/2in. long. Bark pale. India, 1818.