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forests, Talbot; Divimana, Woodrow; Kala naddi, 2?i7f^/e, 1842 ! — Distrib. Through- 

 out India in moist forests ; Ceylon, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 



15. AGANOSMA, G. Don. 



Stout evergreen climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite. Flowers middle- 

 sized, in terminal tomentose cymes. Calyx divided to the base ; sepals 

 linear-lanceolate, acuminate, with subulate glands at the base inside. 

 Corolla hypocrateriforra ; lower portion of tube short, cyliudric, narrower 

 than the upper campaimlate or cylindric portion, the upper portion with 

 bearded longitudinal bands behind the anthers ; lobes linear or lanceolate, 

 overlapping to the right, nearly straight in bud. Stamens at the base 

 of the upper dilated portion of the corolla-tube, included; anthers 

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

 at the base. Disk cupular, 5-lobed. Carpels 2, distinct, the tips usually 

 hirsute; ovules many in each carpel; style short; stigma truncate. 

 Follicles distinct, terete, straight or curved, linear. Seeds ovate or 

 lineai'-oblong, flattened, glabrous, not beaked, comose ; albumen scanty; 

 cotyledons oblong ; radicle short. — Distrib. India and Mala3'a ; 

 species 6. 



1. Aganosma cymosa, G. Don, Gen. Si/st. v. 4 (1837) p. 77. 

 A large woody much-branched climbing shrub ; young branches 

 appressedly pubescent. Leaves 2-3| by 1-1| in., elliptic or elhptic- 

 lanceolute, acute or acuminate, glabrous above, glabrous or pubescent 

 beneath, base acute; main nerves 5-8 pairs; petioles |-| in. long. 

 Flowers yellowish-white, in dense tomentose cymes ; peduncles short ; 

 buds ])ointed, tomentose. Calyx divided to the base; sepals | in. long, 

 linear-lanceolate, acute, tomentose on both sides. Corolla tomentose 

 outside ; lower narrow portion of the tube about Jg- in. long, the tube 

 inflated above this portion, and with longitudinal hairy lines inside 

 behind the anthers ; lobes j in. long, oblong-lanceolate, acute. Anthers 

 i in. long, linear, acuminate, shortly spurred at the base. Carpels of 

 the ovary distinct, hairy at the tip. Follicles 6-9 by 5 in., linear, 

 cylindric, pointed, at first pubescent, at length glabrous. Seeds § in. 

 long, elliptic-oblong, compressed, not beaked; coma I5 in. long. Fl. 

 B. I. v. 3, p. 665; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. p. 139 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, 

 p. 229 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 1, p. 129. Aganosma elegans, 

 (t. Don, Gen. Syst. v. 4, p. 77 ; Wight, Icon. t. 1304. Aganosma 

 Doniana, Wight, Icon. t. 1306 (a small-flowered specimen); Dalz. & 

 Gibs. p. 146. — Flowers : Apr.-June. 



Konkan: Law I Deccan : JVoodroto I ; Phunda Ghat, Dalzell ^' Gibson. Kanaka: 

 evergreen forests of N. Kanara, Talbot. — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula); Ceylon, 

 China. 



Aganosma cari/ophyllafa, G. Don, Gen. Syst. v. 4 (1837) p. 77. 

 A very large climbing shrub, a native of Lower Bengal, occasionally 

 grown in gardens in Bombay and Poona. It has a woody stem as thick 

 as a man's leg, ovate subcordate leaves 4-5 in. long, and pure-white 

 fragrant flov\ers about l.^' '"• •'^t-ross, appearing in tiie rains. It rarely 

 produces seed in the Deccan, but is easily propngated by layering. 

 Fl. B. I. v. 3. p. 664 ; Grab. Cat. p. 113 ; Dalz. ct Gibs. Suppl. p. 51 ; 



