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short-styled form, the pistil measuring in the first about i in. and in tlie 

 second | in. long. The long-styled form has the anthers in the middle 

 of the corolla-tube, the other at ^ its leugfh from the base. Taherace- 

 montana coronarla, Willd. Euum. Hort. Berol. (1809) p. 275; Hook. f. 

 Fl. B. I. V. 3, p. 646 ; Grab. Cat. p. 115 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 1 44 ; Wight, 

 Icon. t. 477 ; Bedd. For. Man. in Flor. Sylvat. p. clix ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. 

 V. 3, p. ]33 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 227 ; W^oodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 12 (1898) p. 165 ; Gard. in Ind. ed. 5, p. 377 ; Watt, Diet. 

 Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 3, p. 401. — Veux. Tagar. 



10. PARSONSIA, E. Br. 



Climbing slirubs. Leaves opposite. Flowers small, white, in terminal 

 or axillary dichotomous cymes or thyrses. Calyx 5-partite, glandular or 

 naked or with 5 scales inside. Corolla hypocrateriform ; tube short, 

 cyliudric or subglobose, the throat naked; lobes 5, very slightly over- 

 lapping to the right. Stamens inserted on the tube ; filaments often 

 twisted ; anthers |-exserted, oblong-lanceolate or linear, acute, conniving 

 round the stigma and adhering to it, the cells produced at the base into 

 empty rigid appendages. Disk of 5 lobes or scales. Ovary 2-celled ; 

 ovules many in each cell ; style filiform, the top dilated, truncate ; stigma 

 columnar or elongate-conic. Fruit cylindric, the carpels cohering for a 

 long time, at length separating from the 2 placentas. Seeds linear or 

 oblong, attenuated and comose at the apex ; albumen scanty ; cotyledons 

 oblong-linear, flat; radicle superior. — Distrib, Tropical Asia, Australia, 

 and New Zealand ; species about 12. 



1. Parsonsia spiralis, Wall. Cat. (1828) 1631. A perennial 

 twining glabrons shrub. Leaves large, subcoriaceous, 3-6 by l^-Sg in., 

 elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, base rounded or acute; 

 main nerves 6-8 pairs ; petioles |-| in. long. Flowers greenish, in 

 paniculately corymbose axillary cymes l|-3 m. in diam. ; peduncles 

 variable in length, 1-4 in. long ; pedicels ^-| in. long; bracts minute, 

 ovate, acute. Calyx ^ in. long, glabrous; lobes g in. long, ovate-tri- 

 angular, subacute, each with a scale at the base inside. Corolla | in. 

 long ; tube pubescent inside ; lobes rather longer than the tube, thick, 

 oblong, obtuse. Disk of 5 triangular lobes. Stamens inserted in the 

 tube near its base; filaments spirally twisted together, thickened and 

 pubescent at the base ; anthers ^-exserted. Fruit 5-7 by | in., cori- 

 aceous, cylindric, sharply pointed, straight, glabrous, the constituent 

 carpels at length separating. Seeds \-^ in. long, linear, slender, narrowed 

 at the tip, glabrous, striate, the hairs of the coma reaching 1| in. long. 

 Fl. B. I. V. 3, p. 650 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 134 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb, 

 ed. 2, p. 227 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (189») p. 165. 

 Heligme Rheedei, AVight, Icon. t. 1303 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 146. Aganosma 

 concanensis. Hook. Icon. PI. t. 841 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 147. — Flowers : 

 Apr. Veen. Nagal-lcudd. 



KoNKAN : Stoclsl; S. Koiikan, Dahelll; Banda in (he Wari cmintry, Da bell <^- 

 Gibson. S. M. Country: Eamghat, Ritchie, 435! Kanaka: southern Grhats of N. 

 Kanara, common, Talhot \ Sirsi, Woodrow; Hulikal, .S/i/ya !— Dis^trib. India (Assam, 

 Lower Bengal, Lower Birma, W. Peninsula); Ceylon, Malaya, China, 



