THUNBERGIA.] ACANTHACE^. 179 



least wl; en young. Calyx small, annular, teeth 10-16 or obscure. 

 Corolla conspicuous ; tube swollen, curved ; limb oblique, with 

 rounded lobes, twisted to the left in bad. Stamens didynamous, 

 attached to the base of the corolla-tube ; anthers 2-celled ; cells 

 parallel, oblique, spurred or not at the base ; pollen globose, obscurely 

 banded. Disk annular or cuflhiou-like. Ovary with 2 collateral 

 ovules in each cell, style lon<:, stigma funnel-shaped, 2-lobed or 

 entire, or style 2-fid and with capitate stigmas, Fruit a capsule, 

 globose below, suddenly narrowed to a barren sword-shaped beak. 

 eeds 2 in each cell, ovoid or dorsally compressed, the glabrous base 

 plane or hollowed, funicle minute or conic. Species about 90 ; in 

 tropical regions of the Old World. 



T. fragrans, Eoxb. Ccr. PL i, 47. f. 67 ; FL Ind. m, 53 ; F. B. I. ir, 

 393 / Prain Beng. PI. 795 ; Cooke FL Bomb. 342. 



Stem long and slender with swollen nodes, ictroreely hairy or glabrous. 

 Leaves 2-3 in. long, oblong or deltoid-ovate, acute or obtuse, rounded 

 cordate or hastate at the base, entire or with a few basal angular 

 apiculate lobes, petioles {-\ in. long. Flowers solitary or in pairs in the 

 axils, pedicels 1-2 in. long ; bracteoles -f- in , broadly falcate-oblong, 

 snbacute. Calyx %-% in., pubescent, deeply divided into 12-15 linear- 

 lanceolate acute segments, nearly glabrous in fruit. Corolla inodorous, 

 pure white, 1| in. long, pubescent outside ; tube about as long as the 

 segments, constricted below the limb ; segments 5, spreading, obovate, 

 truncate, coarsely toothed. Anthers not spuried. Capsule (including 

 beak) about 1 in", long, grey-pub crulous. Seeds 4 or less, ^ in. in diam., 

 hemispheric, excavated on the plane face, rugose. 



Probably indigenous in the Sub-Himalayan tract? frum the Jumna east- 

 wards. Cultivated in gardens. Flowers in Oct. and Nov. DISTKIB. 

 Throughout India chiefly in the hilly districts ; also in Ceylon, Burma, 

 and the Malay Peninsula, extending to Timor, the Philippines and 

 N. Australia. The specimens from N. India are referred to T. fragrans, 

 var. Icevis F. B. 1. 1. c., which differs from the type in having 2 pedicels 

 in each axil, and it is also a much less hairy plant. The specific name 

 applies to the plant as a whole, and not to the flowers which are 

 inodorous. 



THUNBERGIA ALATA, Bvj. ; F. B. I. iv. 391 ; Prain Seng. PL 795; 

 Cooke FL Bomb, ii, 343. A slender climber. Leaves softly villous, 

 ovate, cordate, enbentire ; petioles usually winged. Flowers yellow or 

 whitish, with a brown or claret-coloured eye. Much cultivated in 

 gardens, and becoming naturalized as an escape in many parts of the 

 area. It is a native of Trop. Africa and Natal. 



TBUNBEKGIA GEANDIFLOFA, Poxb. ; FL Ind. Hi, 84; F.B.I.iv, 392; 

 Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 518 ; Prain Beng. PL 796. Cooke FL Bomb, ii, 

 843 ; Brandis Ind. Trees 497.- An extensive climber with large cordate- 



