Tas. 7492. 
CHONEMORPHA macrorHyLtia. 
‘Native of India and the Malay Islands. | 
Nat. Ord. Apocynace®.—Tribe EcHITIDER. 
Genus Caonemorena, G. Don. (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 720.) 
CuoneMorena macrophylla; frutex scandens glaber v. pubescens, ramis 
crassiusculis teretibus, foliis amplis orbicularibus ovatis obovatisve cuspi- 
datis basi cuneatis rotundatis cordatisve sepius pubescentibus, nervis 
utrinque cost 10-12 arcuatis nervulisque transversis creberrimis pro- 
minulis, cymis axillaribus et pseudoterminalibus breviter-pedunculatis 
paucifloris, ramis divaricatis, bracteis minutis ovatis, pedicellis crassius- 
culis, calyce oblongo tereti breviter 5-fido demum tabescente brunneo 
medio constricto tubum corollz# arcte cingente, corolle tubo gracili 14- 
poll. longo, limbi 3-poll. diam. lobis trapeziformibus, disco 5-lobo, 
folliculis 12-18-pollicaribus. 
C. macrophylla, G. Don Gen. Syst. Gard. vol. iv. p. 76. -A.DQ. Prodr. vol. 
viii. p. 430. Wight Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 432. Brandis For. Flor. N.W. 
Ind. p. 328. Kurz For. Flor. Brit. Burm, vol. ii. p. 187. Hook. f. Fl. 
Brit. Ind. vol. iii. p. 661. Gamble Trees, §c., of Darjeeling, p. 56. 
°C. grandiflora, G. Don l.c. 
C. mollis, Miguel Fl. Ind. Bat. vol. ii. p. 444, fide Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 
Beng. vol. xlvi. pars II. (1877) p. 257. 
Echites macrophylla, Roxb. Fl. Ind. vol. ii. p.13. Wall. Cat. n. 1657. 
E. grandis, Wall. l.c. n. 1658. Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. p. 1138. Dalz. & Gibs. 
Bombay Flor. p. 147. 
PE. macrantha, Spreng. Syst. Veg. vol. i. p. 632, A.DC. l. ¢. p. 477. 
Epichysianthus macrophyllus, Voigt Hort. Suburb. Calcutt. p. 523. 
Belutta-Kaka-Kodi, Rheede Hort. Matlab. vol. ix. t. 5, 6. 
One of the commonest and handsomest of the white- 
flowered climbing shrubs of Indian tropical forests, ex- 
tending from the foot of the Himalaya in Kumaon, east- 
ward along the whole range, and southward to Travancore, 
Ceylon, the Andaman Islands, Malayan Peninsula, Sumatra 
and Java. Throughout this wide range of distribution it 
presents little variation except in the size and shape of the 
leaves, their hairyness, and somewhat in the dimensions 
of the corolla. In the forests of Sikkim, where it reaches 
an elevation of 6000 ft., it climbs the loftiest trees, often 
covering their tops with a white sheet of flowers. On in- 
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