660 



xciv. APOCYNACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Parameria. 



Seeds linear or oblong, compressed, hairy, crowned with a deciduous pencil 

 and persistent ring of hairs, albumen scanty ; cotyledons thin, radicle superior, 

 short. DISTRIB. Species 2-3, Indian and Malayan. 



1. P. g landulifera, Benth. in Gen. Plant, ii. 715 ; glabrous except the 

 cymes, leaves coriaceous elliptic oblong or obovate obtuse acute or acuminate 

 shining above, nerves 5-6 pairs arching very oblique, cymes in terminal and 

 axillary brachiate panicles. Kurz For. Fl. ii. 189. Ecdysanthera glandulifera, 

 A. DC. Prodr. viii. 443; Wight Ic. t. 1307 (E. Griffithii, in text). E. barbata, 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 451. Echites glandulifera and monilifera, Wall. Cat. 

 1660, 1659 ; G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 75. Parsonsia barbata, Bl. Bijd. 1042. 



MARTABAN; Wallich, Parish; on the borders of tidal forests, Kurz. MALACCA; 

 Griffith, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1077, 1093). SINGAPORE ; Lobb. ANDAMAN ISLDS. ; 

 Kurz. DTSTRIB. Java, Borneo, Philippine Islds., Cambodia. 



Branches stout or slender. Leaves 3-5 by 1| 2 in., sometimes 3-nately whorled, 

 smooth, nerves very slender; petiole very short, - in. Terminal panicle of cym<n 

 often 5-6 in. broad, pyramidal, axillary ones short ; branches spreading, 3-chotomous, 

 puberulous, pedicels, short, or sometimes long and slender when the flowers are, 

 collected into globose umbellules ; bracts minute ; flowers \ in. diam. Calyx-segments 

 small, ovate, one-quarter the length of the broad obtusely angled corolla-tube. 

 Corolla-lobes about equalling the tube. Anthers acute and apiculate. Ovary some- 

 what hairy; style obconic. Follicles 6-12 in., very slender, flexuous, glabrous, 

 pericarp thinly coriaceous; swellings over the seeds sometimes 1 in. apart, elliptic- 

 lanceolate. Seeds % in. long, oblong-lanceolate, contracted at the tip, pubescent, 

 coma three times as long, white. The follicles resemble those of Urceola. Wight is 

 mistaken in describing and figuring the overlapping of the corolla-lobes as to the 

 right. Blume describes the axils of the nerves of the leaf and corolla-throat as 

 V>earded in Parsonsia barbata, characters which I do not observe in the Indian 

 specimens. 



2. P. polyneura, Hook. f. ; glabrous except the cymes, leaves mem- 

 branous elliptic-oblong or elliptic obtusely acuminate, nerves 8-10 pairs arching 

 very oblique, cymes in terminal brachiate panicles. 



TENASSERIM ; Lobb. MALACCA; Griffith, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1078). 

 Habit of P. glandulifera, but leaves very membranous with numerous nerves, 

 cymes always terminal and anthers not apiculate. Follicles not seen. 



29. BEAUMONT! A, Wall. 



Evergreen climbing trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, membranous ; nerves 

 distant, arched. Flowers very large, white, in terminal cymes; bracts leafy. 

 Calyx 5-partite, glandular or not within. Corolla-tube very short, throat large, 

 bell- or funnel-shaped, naked ; lobes broad, overlapping to the right. Stamens 

 at the top of the tube, included in the throat ; filaments thickened at the top : 

 anthers horny, sagittate, conniving over and adhering to the stigma ; cells 

 spurred at the base. Disc deeply 5-lobed. Ovary 2-celled, cells many-ovuled ; 

 style filiform, top clavate, stigma fusiform. Fruit long, thick, woody, at length 

 dividing into 2 horizontally spreading follicles. Seeds compressed, ovoid or 

 oblong, top contracted, crowned with a pencil of hairs ; cotyledons thin or 

 thick, radicle short superior. DISTRIB. Species 4, Indian and Malayan. 



1. B. grandifiora, Wall. Tent. Fl. Nep. 15, t. 7 ; Cat. 1629 ; leaves 

 glabrous or tomentose beneath, calyx-lobes 1-2 in. long, corolla between tubular 

 and bell-shaped much shorter than the tube. A* DC. Prodr. viii. 404 ; Kurz 

 For. Fl. ii. 179; Sot. Reg. t. 911; Sot. Mag. t. 3213. ?B. longiflora, Lod-<L 

 Sot. Cab. 183. Echites grandiflora, Roxb. Hort. Seng. 20, and Fl. Ind. ii. 14 

 (excl. fruit}. 



