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1. Thunbergia fragrans Eoxb. PI. Corom. 1: 47. 1795. 



Thunbergia volubilis Pers. Syn. 2: 179. 1806. 



A slender, finely pubescent vine, often 2 m. long, usually climbing. Leaves 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 5-10 cm. long, remotely few-toothed toward the 

 base or entire, acuminate at the apex, subtruneate, hastate or cordate at the 

 base, the slender petioles 14 cm. long; peduncles rather stout, 2-7 cm. long; 

 bracts lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, pubescent, acuminate, 1.5-2 cm. long; 

 calyx deeply cleft, much shorter than the bracts; corolla white, 2.5-3 cm. long, 

 its lobes crenate, nearly as long as the tube; capsule depressed-globose, pubes- 

 cent, about 8 mm. in diameter, tipped by a stout subulate beak 1-1.5 em. long. 



Spontaneous after cultivation, New Providence near Nassau : Cuba to Porto 

 Rico, Tortola and Trinidad ; Jamaica. Naturalized from Asia. White Thunbergia. 



2. Thunbergia alata Bojer; Sims, Bot. Mag. pi. 2591. 1825. 



A pubescent vine, usually not more than 1 m. long, trailing or climbing. 

 Leaves ovate or triangular-ovate, 4-8 cm. long, remotely few-toothed or entire, 

 acute at the apex, cordate or hastate at the base, the wing-margined petioles 

 as long as the blades or shorter; peduncles slender, mostly longer than the 

 petioles ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, pubescent, about 1.5 em. 

 long; calyx cleft to about the middle; corolla yellow or white, usually with a 

 purple eye, 2.5-4 em. long; capsule depressed-globose, pubescent, 8-10 mm. in 

 diameter, its stout beak about 1 cm. long. 



Waste places near Nassau, New Providence : Cuba to Tortola and Trinidad ; 

 Jamaica ; Mexico to continental tropical America. Naturalized from eastern Africa. 

 Winged Thunbergia. 



Family 16. MYOPORACEAE Lindl. 



Myoporum Family. 



Shrubs or trees, with alternate or opposite, entire estipulate leaves, 

 and perfect, more or less irregular flowers, solitary or clustered in the 

 axils. Calyx inferior, 5-parted. Corolla gamopetalous, its limb 2-lipped 

 or oblique. Stamens 4, mostly didynamous, borne on the corolla-tube, the 

 filaments filiform. Ovary usually 2-eelled; style terminal; stigma terminal 

 and small; ovules 1 in each ovary-cavity. Fruit a drupe. Five genera and 

 80 species or more, most Australian, only the following American. 



1. BONTIA L. Sp. PL 638. 1753. 



A tree or shrub, with alternate narrow fleshy entire pointed leaves, and 

 rather small, purplish peduncled flowers, solitary or clustered in the axils. 

 Calyx 5-parted, the segments imbricated. Tube of the corolla straight, cylin- 

 dric, the limb deeply 2-lipped, the posterior lip concave, 2-cleft, the anterior 

 lip recurved, 3-cleft, its middle lobe densely bearded. Stamens 4, didynamous; 

 filaments thickened and villous near the base. Ovary 2-celled; ovules 4 in 

 each cavity, superimposed in pairs; style very slender. Drupe ovoid, the exo- 

 carp fleshy, the endocarp bony, 2-celled. Seeds small, ovoid, with little endo- 

 sperm. [Commemorates Petar Bontius, a Dutch naturalist and traveller of the 

 seventeenth century.] A monotypic West Indian genus. 



1. Bontia daphnoides L. Sp. PI. 638. 1753. 



A shrub or small tree, sometimes 9 m. high, nearly glabrous throughout, 

 with terete, rather slender twigs. Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, falling 



