660 XCIV, APOCYNACEE, (J. D. Hooker.) ^ [Parameria. 
Seeds linear or oblong, compressed, hairy, crowned with a deciduous pencil 
and persistent ring of hairs, albumen scanty ; cotyledons thin, radicle superior, 
short.—DisrRrs. Species 2-3, Indian and Malayan, 
1. P. glandulifera, Benth. in Gen. Plant, ii. 715; glabrous except the 
cymes, leaves coriaceous elliptic oblong or obovate obtuse acute or acuminate 
inthe above, nerves 5-6 pairs arching very oblique, cymes in terminal and 
axillary brachiate panicles. Kurz For. Fi. ii. 189. Ecdysanthera glandulifera, 
A, De. Prodr. viii. 443; Wight Ic. t, 1307 (E. Griffithii, in text). E. barbata, 
Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii, 451. Echites glandulifera and monilifera, Wall. Cat. 
1660, 1659; G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 75.  Parsonsia barbata, Bl, Byd. 1042. 
Manrazax ; Wallich, Parish; on the borders of tidal forests, Kurz. MALACCA ; 
Griffith, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1077, 1093). SiNGAPonE; Lobb. ANDAMAN ISLDS.; 
Kurz.—DisrRiB. Java, Borneo, Philippine Islds., Cambodia. 
Branches stout or slender. Leaves 3-5 by 14-2 in., sometimes 3-nately whorled, 
smooth, nerves very slender; petiole very short, A A in. Terminal panicle of cyms 
often 5-6 in. broad, pyramidal, axillary ones short; branches spreading, 3-chotomous, 
puberulous, pedicels short, or sometimes long and slender when the flowers are 
collected into globose umbellules; bracts minute; flowers 1 in. diam. Calyz-segments 
small, ovate, one-quarter the length of the broad obtusely angled corolla-tube. 
Corolla-lobes about equalling the tube. Anthers acute and apiculate. Ovary some- 
what hairy; style obconie. Follicles 6-12 in., very slender, flexuous, glabrous, 
pericarp thinly coriaceous; swellings over the seeds sometimes 1 in. apart, elliptie- 
lanceolate. Seeds } in, long, oblong-lanceolate, contracted at the tip, pubescent, 
coma three times as long, white. The follicles resemble those of Urceola.—Wight is 
mistaken in describing and figuring the overlapping of the corolla-lobes as to the 
right. Blume describes the axils of the nerves of the leaf and corolla-throat as 
bearded in Parsonsia barbata, characters which I do not observe in the Indian 
specimens, 
2. P. polyneura, Hook. f.; glabrous except the cymes, leaves mem- 
branous elliptic-oblong or elliptic obtusely acuminate, nerves 8-10 pairs arching 
very oblique, cymes in terminal brachiate panicles. 
TENASSERIM ; Lobb. Maracca; Griffith, Maingay (Kew Distrib, 1078). 
Habit of P. glandulifera, but leaves very membranous with numerous nerves, 
cymes always terminal and anthers not apiculate. Follicles not seen, 
20 BEAUMONTIA, Wal. 
Evergreen climbing trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, membranous ; nerves 
distant, arched. Flowers very large, white, in terminal cymes; bracts leafy. 
Calyx 5-partite, glandular or not within. —Corolla-tube very short, throat large, 
bell- or funnel-shaped, naked ; lobes broad, overlapping to the right. Stamens 
at the top of the tube, included in the throat ; filaments thickened at the top: 
anthers horny, sagittate, conniving over and adhering to the stigma; cells 
spurred at the base. Disc deeply 5-lobed. Ovary 2-celled, cells many-ovuled ; 
style filiform, top clavate, stigma fusiform. Frut long, thick, woody, at length 
dividing into 2 horizontally spreading follicles, Seeds compressed, ovoid or 
oblong, top contracted, crowned with a pencil of hairs; cotyledons thin or 
thick, radicle short superior.—DisrRrs. Species 4, Indian and Malayan. 
l. B. grandiflora, Wall. Tent. Fl. Nep. 15, t. 7; Cat. 1629 ; leaves 
glabrous or tomentose beneath, calyx-lobes 1-2 in. long, corolla between tubular 
and bell-shaped much shorter than the tube. A, DC. Prodr. viii. 404; Kurz 
For. Fl. ii. 179; Bot. Reg. t. 911; Bot. Mag. t. 3213. ? B. longiflora, Lodd. 
Bot. Cab. 183.  Echites grandiflora, Roxb, Hort, Beng. 20, and FI. Ind, ii. 14 
(excl. fruit). 
