392 cix. ACANTHACE^;. (C. B. Clarke.) [Tliunlergia. 



5. T. lutea, T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 448; leaves ovate 

 acuminate or lanceolate toothed, pedicels longer than the petioles, corolla 

 yellow or greenish-white. 



SIKKIM, alt. 4-7000 ft., frequent ; J. D. H., &c. 



Pubescent or nearly glabrous. Stem slender. Leaves 6 by 4 in. or (especially 

 tipper ones) on the same stem 4 by in., wide or cuneate, decurrent at the base, 

 feather-nerved ; petiole 1-2 in. Pedicels 1J-4 in., solitary, glabrous or pubescent, 

 with a tuft of hairs at the base; bracteoles J-f in., broadly ovate or round, herbaceous, 

 connate when young. Calyx minute, shorter than the small pedicel within the 

 bracteoles, crenulate. Corolla 1| in., glabrous, usually a faint yellow, greenish below. 

 Stamens 4, subsimilar, fifth rudimentary ; filaments hairy [at the base, glandular 

 upwards ; anther-cells lanceolate, subpendent, separate below, sparingly hairy, white, 

 cells with a, round green ciliate basal appendage. Style bifid, branches short, linear, 

 subequal, stigmas subcapitate. 



Sect. 3. Kexacentris. Flowers racemed, or the lower axillary. 

 Calyx an entire or obscurely crenulate ring. Seeds dorsally compressed, 

 base plane. 



6. T. grandiflora, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 45, and FL Ind. iii. 34; leaves 

 ovate or uppermost lanceolate often angular or lobed scabrid or pubescent 

 palmately 5-7-nerved, bracts deciduous lower often petioled leaf-like, corolla 

 blue. Wall. Cat. 768, type sheet ; Bot. Mag. t. 2366 ; Bot. Reg. t. 495 ; 

 Nees in Wall. PL As. Ear. iii. 77, and in DC. Prodr. xi. 54; Dalz. 8f 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 70 ; Wight Ic. t. 872 ; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. 



. Soc. 'ix. 447 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 240. T. cordifolia, Nees I. c. 55. Fle- 

 miugia grandiflora, Rottl. fy Willd. in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur.iv. 1803 (We 

 Nees}. 



BEN&AL, alt. 0-4000 ft.; from Behar and Sikkim to Assam, Muneypoor and 

 Chittagong, frequent. DISTRIB. N. Burma (cult.? in China, Singapore, Bombay, 

 &c.). 



A large climber; uppermost leaves often passing into bracts. Leaves 6 by 3 in., 

 acute, base cordate, toothed, often angularly lobed, pubescent, rarely glabrate ; petiole 

 3 in. Racemes usually stout, pubescent, angular, somewhat dense-fld., or more 

 slender, elongate, nearly glabrous; upper bracts small, inconspicuous; pedicels f- 3 in., 

 opposite or fascicled; bracteoles |-1^ in., falcate-elliptic, acute, often cohering on one 

 margin. Calyx subentire. Corolla 2-3 in. long and broad. Filaments widened 

 below ; anthers subsimilar, |-| in. long, bearded; cells parallel with a fine linear basal 

 spur. Ovary pubescent or glabrescent; stigma very large, funnel-shaped; lobes 2, 

 rounded. Capsule 1-2 in., pubescent or glabrous. Seeds flat, ^ in. diam., sub- 

 trigonous, covered (except the large base) with soft brown scaly plates. Ordinary 

 forms are easily distinguished by the pubescent angular leaves and pubescent raceme; 

 but some Khasian examples are altogether glabrate with entire elliptic acute leaves ; 

 and, except by the leaves being 5-7-nerved rather than 3-nerved at the base, they 

 might be placed with T. laurifolia. 



VAE. ? axillaris ; leaves cordate-ovate acute glabrate, pedicels axillary 2-3 in. 

 1-fld., capsule and seeds as of T. c/randiflora. Khasia ; Theria Ghaut, Clarke. 

 Stems very slender for T. c/randiflora; corolla noted yellow (but ?). Marked by 

 Kurz as a new species ; but the examples do not show the ends of the branches. 



7. T. laurifolia, Lindl. in Gard. Chron, 1856, 260; glabrous or 

 innovations puberulous, leaves elliptic or oblong acuminate sinuate or 

 denticulate palmately 3-nerved, bracts deciduous, corolla blue. Bot. Mag. 

 t. 4985 ; T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 447, excl. syn. Nees ; Kurz 

 For. Fl. ii. 240. T. grandiflora, Wall. Cat. 768, partly. T. Harrisi, Hook. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 4998. 



MALAY PENINSULA, from Arracan to Malacca; Wallich, Griffith, &c. ANDA- 



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