138 LXXXII. APOCYNACE.E. 



li in. long at the base. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. Go3 ; Grah. Cat. p. 114; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. 145 ; Bedd. Flor. «vlvat. t. 241 ; Taib. Trees, Bomb, 

 ed. 2, p. 228 ; "Woodr. in Joiirn. Borab. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 165 ; 

 Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 4, p. 316. Wrhjhlia llotlni, G. Don, 

 Gen. Syst. v. 4 (1837) p. 86 ; Wight, Icon. t. 13i9.— Flowers : Mar.- 

 May. Vern". Kdld-Tcudd. 



KoNKAN : Law\, Crihson, SfocJcsl; jungles south of Nagotna, Dalzell ^ Gibso7i ; 

 Thana, Woodrow; Matheran, Cooke \ Deccan : Khandala, C'oo^-e ! ; near Karli Tillage, 

 Gammie. S. M. Countuy : Barlami, Cooke \, JVoodrovj] — Distiuh. India (Rajputana, 

 Central Provinces, W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon, Timor. 



The leaves furnisJi a kind of indigo and have been used by the natives of S. India 

 for dyeing. The plant somewhat resembles Holarrhena antidysenterica, a valuable 

 medicinal plant, and some confusion has arisen in consequence of the resemblance. 

 The anthers of Holarrhena are included in the corolla-tube which is without a corona 

 at its mouth, while the seeds of Holarrhena have the coma of hairs at the apex, those 

 of Wrightia having the coma at the base of the seed. See Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod, 1. c. 



13. BEAUMONTIA, Wall. 



Lofty scandent shrubs. Leaves opposite. Flowers very large, white, 

 in terminal cymes ; bracts caducous. Calyx 5-partite, glandular or not 

 inside ; segments large, foliaceous. Corolla inf undibuliform or campanu- 

 late, throat naked ; lobes broad, overlapping to the right. Stamens at 

 the top of the tube, included ; filaments thickened at the top ; anthei-s 

 sagittate, conniving round and adhering to the stigma, the cells spurred 

 at the base. Disk deeply 5-lobed. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules many in 

 each cell ; style filiform ; stigma oblong-fusiform. Fruit long, thick, 

 woody, at length separating into 2 follicles. Seeds compressed, ovate 

 or oblong, attenuated at the apex and crowned by a coma ; albumen 

 thin ; cotyledons foliaceous or thick ; radicle short, superior. — Disteib. 

 India and the Malay Archipelago ; species 4. 



1. Beaumontia Jerdoniana, Wigld, Icon. (1850) tt. 1314-15. 

 A large climbing sluub with woody stem ; branches pale, glabrous. 

 Leaves 6-9 by 2-4i in., coriaceous, oblong-ovate, abruptly and shortly 

 acuminate, glabrous, base acute; main nerves 8-15 pairs; petioles \ in. 

 long. Flowers very large, in terminal rusty-pubescent cymes ; pedicels 

 rusty-pubescent ; bracts ovate, acute, deciduous. Calyx with 10 linear- 

 subulate glands at the base inside, alternate with the segments ; seg- 

 ments |-1 in. long, narrowly lanceolate, acute, pubescent and ciliate. 

 Corolla white, 3-4 in. long, infundibuliform, wide above, gradually 

 tapering towards the base ; lobes about 1 in. long, obovate-oblong, 

 rounded, mucronate. Anthers horny, sagittate, with spurs curving 

 inwards at the base. Disk with 5 broadly ovate-oblong obtuse ciliale 

 lobes. Follicles cylindric, 8-10 by 1-1^ in., somewhat tapering towards 

 the apex, fibrously striate, glabrous. Seeds ^-g in. long, ovate-lanceolate, 

 compressed, with a coma of yellowish-white hairs reaching 2] in. long 

 at the top. Fl. B. 1. v. 3, p'. 06 L ; Talh. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 229 ; 

 AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 166.— Flowers : Nov.- 

 Dec. 



Koxkan: S/ocks'.; Wari country, Dahell cj- Gibson. S. Jf. CorxTRV : Dab ell ^■ 

 Gilison. Kanaka: plentiful, /A(/z''// 4' Gihson ; evergreen forests of the N. Kanara 

 Ghats, T(i/'jof.—'D\i~Tniii. India (VV. Peninsula), apparently endemic. 



