Tas. 7240. 
PORANA PpaNicuLaTa. 
Native of the Hast Indies. 
Nat. Ord. Convotvutacez.—Tribe ConvoLvuLEe. 
Genus Porana, Burm.; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 876.) 
Porana paniculata; ramulis foliis subtus inflorescentiaque pubescenti- 
tomentosis, foliis ovato-cordatis acuminatis basi 7-nerviis, cymis 
paniculatis multifloris subebracteatis, floribus parvis, corolla infundibalari, 
stylo abbreviato, stigmate 2-lobo, calycis fructiferi segmentis 3 valde auctis 
ceteris immutatis. 
P. paniculata, Roxb. Cor. Pl. vol. iii. p. 31, t. 285; F%. Ind. vol. i. p. 464; 
Ed. Carey & Wailich, vol. ii. p. 39; Don Prodr. Fl. Nep. p. 99; Walt. 
Cat. un. 1325; Chois. Convolv. n. 107; in DC. Prodr. vol. ix. 436 ; 
Brand, For. Fl. p. 342; Kurz. in Trimen Journ. Bot. 2878, 137; For. 
Flor, Brit. Burm, vol. ii. p. 220; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 
vol, iii. p. 222. Dinetus paniculatus, Sweet. Hort. Brit. Ed. 2, p. 373. 
This species of Porana, of which there are eight in India, 
are amongst the most beautiful hedge-plants of that 
country. Two of them are specially abundant, the present, 
which may be met with anywhere from the base of the 
Himalaya throughout its length, to Ceylon and Burma, 
reappearing in Java; and P. racemosa, the “Snow 
Creeper” of Anglo-Indians, which is more confined to the 
Himalayan slopes, where its masses of dazziing white 
flowers have been well likened by Mr. Clarke to snow 
patches in the jungle. The latter is the only species which 
had hitherto been figured in Europe from cultivated plants, 
being the Dinetus racemosus of Sweet. Brit. Fl. Gard. t. 
127. Another very beautiful species well worth cultivation 
is P. grandiflora, Wall., which ascends to eight thousand 
feet in the Sikkim Himalaya, and has mauve flowers an 
inch long. 
P. paniculata is a very tropical species, never ascending 
above three thousand feet in the Himalayan hot valleys, 
where it climbs trees to a height of upwards of forty feet, 
sending down showers of pendulous flowering branches 
from above, and it is equally abundant in low jungles and 
June Ist, 1892. 
