LXXXII. APOCYNACE.li. 139 



Beaumontia grandijlora, Wall. Tent. Fl. Napal. (1826) t. 7. A 

 gigantic climbei', a native of Nipal, grown as an ornamental shrub in 

 gardens and easily propagated by layering. It has obovate-oblong 

 acuminate leaves 7-12 by 3-7 in, and a showy white corolla 3-5 in. long, 

 ri. B. I. V. 3, p. G60; Grab. Cat. p. 113; Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 52; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. y. 12 (1808) p. 166 ; Gard. in Ind. ed. 5, 

 p. 381 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. ], p. 433.— Flowers : Dec.-Feb. 



14. CHONEMORPHA, G. Don. 



Scandent shrubs climbing over high trees. Leaves opposite, large 

 aud broad. Flowers large, white, in lax terminal and pseudo-axillary 

 cymes. Calyx tubular, 5-fid, with a ring of glands at the base inside. 

 Corolla hypocrateriform ; tube cylindric, very narrow for a short distance 

 from the base, then enlarged and continued so to the top ; lobes 5, 

 broad, overlapping to the right, twisted to the left. Stamens attached 

 at the top of the narrow portion of the tube, included ; filaments very 

 short, broad ; anthers sagittate, long, pungent, conniving round and 

 adhering to the stigma, the cells spurred below. Disk thick, annular or 

 cupular. Carpels of the ovary distinct ; ovules numerous in each carpel ; 

 style filiform, cleft at the base ; stigma thickened, dilated at the base 

 with an annular membrane, with an apiculus at length 2-fid. Follicles 

 elongate, straight, hard, 3-4-gonous. Seeds ovate or oblong, flat, shortly 

 beaked, crowned with a long coma ; albumen thin ; cotyledons flat, 

 thick, oblong ; radicle short. — Disteib. India, Ceylon, and Malaya ; 

 species 2. 



1. Chonemorpha macrophylla, G. Don^ Gen. Syst. v. 4 (1837) 

 p. 76. A large climbing shrub with copious milky juice ; older branches 

 stout, often covered with warty excrescences ; younger branches hairy. 

 Leaves very large, 6-12 by 5-10 in. or even more, broadly elliptic or 

 suborbicular, usually shortly aud abruptly acuminate, glabrous above, 

 glabrous or more or less pubescent or tomentose and paler beneath, 

 base usually cordate ; main nerves 10-12 pairs, with reticulate veins 

 between ; petioles |-1| in. long. Flowers large, sometimes 3 in. or 

 more across, \\ hite, fragrant, in erect terminal racemose cymes ; 

 peduncles variable in length, 2-8 in. long ; bracts ovate, acute, 

 pubescent ; young buds often much twisted to the left. Calyx glabrous 

 or pubescent, divided about g-way down ; tube with a broad truncate 

 base ; lobes ovate, acute, slightly ciliate. Corolla 3 in. and more across ; 

 tube |-1 in. long, naked at the mouth, with 5 longitudinal villous bands 

 inside behind the stamens ; lobes Ig-l | in. long, obovate, cuneate, rounded 

 at the apex, overlapping to the right. Anthers nearly \ in. long, very 

 acute, the cells with slightly divergent spurs at the base ; fllaments 

 short, hairy. Follicles about 12 in. long, 3-4-gonous, pointed, glabrous. 

 Seeds | in. long, with a silvery-white coma 2 in. long at the apex. 

 Fl. B. I. V. 3, p. 661 ; Grab. Cat. p. 113 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 146 ; Wight, 

 Icon. t. 432 ; Trim. Fl. Cevl. v. 3, p. 138 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, 

 p. 229 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (18!J8) p. 166 ; Watt, Diet. 

 Econ. Prod. v. 2, p. 271. — Flowers : Apr.-Sept. 



KoNKAN : L<iw\, Talhof ; Banda in the Wari country, DahcU tf- Gibson; jungles 

 near Goa, Didzclll Kanaka: erergreen forests of N. Kanara, coruinon in the Supa 



