Thunlergia.] cix. AOAXTHACB^B. -. (C. B. Clarke.) 391 



plants. According to him (in *Thwaites Unum. 234) the planb is not fragrant in 

 Ceylon ; but this may apply to Var. vestita. 



VAE. ICBVIS ; glabrous or grey puberulous, pedicels often 2 in each axil much 

 thickened upwards in fruit, corolla not fragrant, tube often greenish, capsules grey 



?uberulous. T. laevis, Nees in Wall. PL As. Rar. iii. 77, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 56. 

 '. fragrans, Sot. Mag. t. 1881; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 183. T. longiflora, 

 JBenth. in PL Hohenack. 384. Meyenia longiflora, Benth.; HohenacJc. in Flora, 1849, 

 558. Deccan Peninsula, extending to Behar and W. Bengal. 



VAR. vestita, Nees in Wall. PI. As. Rar. iii. 78, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 57 ; stem 

 and leaves more hairy, capsule pubescent. S. Deccan Peninsula and Ceylon. 



VAE. heterophylla ; leaves subentire lower suborbicular upper narrow-elliptic 

 acute uppermost lanceolate sometimes almost linear. T. heterophylla, Wall. Cat. 

 771. Prome Hills and Ava ; Wallich. Possibly a distinct species, but the material 

 is fragmentary ; the calyx is 12-toothed, and the pedicel solitary axillary, so that it is 

 hence near T. fragrans. 



2. T. tomentosa, Wall. ; Nees in Wall. PL As. Rar. iii. 78, and in 

 DC. Prodr. xi. 58; leaves ovate or oblong acute, calyx- teeth in flower 

 filiform much longer than the tube hairy, capsule villous. T. Anders, in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 449. T. fragrans, Wall. Cat. 767, partly. 



NILGHEEEIES, alt. 6500 ft. ; Wight, Sir F. Adam, HohenacJcer, &c. 



Calyx-teeth in flower often in. Bracts 1 in., ovate, acute. Corolla pure white, 

 tube l^in., mouth 2 in. diam. Ovary densely shortly villous. Capsule 1-1^ in. 

 Closely allied to T. fragrans, differing by the filiform calyx-teeth and large villous 

 capsule. The thickening of the peduncles upwards in fruit, insisted on by T. Anderson, 

 is more prominent in T. fragrans var. Icevis. 



*3. T. ALATA ; Bojer ; Hook. Exot. FL 1. 177 ; softly villous, leaves ovate- 

 cordate, petiole often winged, corolla orange-yellow with a brown or claret 

 eye. Wall. Cat. 7141 ; Sot. Mag. t. 2591 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 

 Suppl. 71 ; Nees in Wall. PL As. Ear. iii. 78, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 58; 

 T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 449 ; Kurz For. FL ii. 240. 



INDIA, widely cultivated ; naturalized in lower Assam and N.E. Bengal. DISTEIB. 

 Native of Africa. 



Closely allied to T. fragrans, and often confounded with it. It is certainl. 

 African, and only introduced in India. 



Sect. 2. Meyenia. Flowers axillary, rarely imperfectly racemed. 

 Calyx an entire or scarcely toothed ring. Seeds ovoid, base excavate. 



4. T. Hawtayneana, Wall. Tent. FL Nep. 49, in note, and Cat. 769, 

 and PL As. Rar. ii. 52, t. 164 ; nearly glabrous, leaves sessile cordate- 

 elliptic or -ovate-acute entire, pedicels short, corolla purple. T. Hawtaynii, 

 T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 448. Meyenia Hawtayniana, Nees in 

 Wall. PL As. Ear. iii. 78, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 60; Wight ill. t. 164 b, 

 fig. 1, and Ic. t. 1487. 



Hills of the S. DECCAN PENINSULA; Canara, Bellary, Dharwar, Mangalore, 

 Nilgherries, Kurg ; Wight, &c. CEYLON; Walker. 



Stem slender. Leaves 3 by 1 in. Pedicels -li in., solitary, a tuft of hair at 

 their base; bracteoles f-1 in., ovate-oblong, nerved. Corolla H i"-> nearly glabrous, 

 violet-purple, tube yellowish. Filaments with shortly stalked glands continued to the 

 connective; anther-cells of the shorter stamens parallel, subsirnilar, unappendaged .; of 

 the longer divergent, the upper oblique cell shortly mucronate at the base. Stigma 

 funnel-shaped; lobes 2, oblong. Capsule 1-1* in., glabrous; seeds (ex Wallich) 

 semiglobose. In one example of Wight's, the flowers are on axillary branches 2-4 in. 

 long, the floral leaves are reduced by degrees down to | in. long, i. e. to " bracts, 

 and the inflorescence becomes a raceme. 



