102 VOS-YOLVULACEM. [FOBANA. 



vinces to Southern India and Ceylon, extending to Burma, the Nicobar 

 Islands, the Malay Archipelago and Australia. The "bark is used in 

 Chota Nagpur as a remedy for cholera. 



3. PORANA, Burm. ; Fl. Brit.- Ind. iv, 221. 



Large climbers. Leaves petioled, entire. Flowers white blue or 

 purple, often in large panicled cymes, bracts persist ent. Sepals in 

 flower small and narrow, in fruit the three outer or all much enlarged, 

 membranous and nerved. Corolla camtanulate or funnel-shaped; 

 limb plicate, subentire or lobed. Stamens subincluded. Ovary '2- oi- 

 l-celled, 4- or 2-ovuled ; style long or short, entire or 2-fid., stigma 2- 

 lobed or with 2 capitate stigmas. Fruit**'m&\\ t subglobose, 1-seeded, 

 indehiscent or a 2-valved capsule. Seed glabrous, cotyledens 

 plicate. Species about 10, in India, the Malay Archipelago and 

 North Australia. 



Flowers in long pendulous racemes, 3 of the 

 sepals enlarged in fruit, limb of corolla, 

 shortly lobed 1. P. paniculata. 



Flowers in dichotomous racemes, all the 

 sepals enlarged in fruit, limb of corolla 

 deeply lobed 2. P. racemosa. 



1. P. paniculata, Roxb. Cor. PI. Hi, 81, t. 235 ; Fl. Ind. i, 466 ; Don 

 Prod. 99 ; Brandis For. Fl. 342 ; Ind. Trees 487 ; F. B. I. iv, 222; Watt 

 jjj. D. ; Kanjilal For. Fl. 251 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 507 ; Prain Beng. 

 PI. 724; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 227. Yern. Bel-Tiamu, safed bel. (Bridal 

 Creeper.) 



A large climbing shrub, the branchlets underside of leaves and irjflore- 

 scence clothed with soft grey torn entum. Leaves yetioled, 2-4 in. long, 

 ovate-cordate, acuminate, entire, membranous, hairy on both surfaces, 

 basal nerves 5-7. Flouers small, pure-white, very numerous, arranged 

 in large axillary and terminal drooping panicles. Sepals (in flower) 

 7 V in. long, linear-oblorj* ; three of them much enlarged in fruit, mem- 

 branous and strongly reticulate. Corolla abcut in. Jcng, campanulate, 

 glabrous ; limb shortly 5-lobed. Style very short. Capsule % in. in 

 diam., membranous, brittle, hairy, 1-seeded. 



Dehra Dun and Siwalik Bange ; common eastwards alorg the Sub- 

 Himalayan tracts, also in Bundelkhand. Flowers October to January. 

 DISTRIB. Westward to the Punjab and IViounfc Abu and eastwards to 

 Bengal and Upper Burma, and on the Himalaya in Kumaon up to 4,000 

 ft. As a climber it forms when in flower a very beautiful object with its 

 dense masses of white blossom hanging in festoons from the branches. 

 The stems are much used in the Saharanpur district in making baskets 

 for rough work. 



