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Plants of the Punjab, 



Climbing Plants with Opposite Exstipulate Simple Leaves, 



Vallaris Heynei, 



Bamsar, 

 chamari-ki-vel. 

 Apocynace^. 

 F. B. I. iii. 650. 

 The Plains to 

 5,000 ft. 

 Sutlej Valley 

 (Collett). 

 Cultivated. 



Petals united. 



perennial, woody, twining, bark pale, axils of leaves 

 glandular ; leaves l|-4 by f-l| in., narrowed to both ends 

 or oblong or linear-oblong, long pointed, minutely dotted, 

 stalk ^-f in. ; flowers fin., white, fragrant, in axillary droop- 

 ing velvety clusters, 3-10-flowered, calyx 5-partite, segments 

 narrow, ovate-oblong, blunt, equal to the short corolla 

 tube, corolla salver-shaped, tube -^ in., naked, lobes 5, 

 broad, overlapping to the right, spreading, stamens 5, 

 at the top of the tube, anthers protruding, meeting in a 

 cone touching the stigma ; fruit 6 by 2 in., of 2 straight 

 folHcles, tapering from a rounded base to a stiff point, 

 seeds 1 in. ovate, beaked, with a tuft of very long hairs. 

 A handsome white-flowered climber. 



Beaumontia 

 grandiflora, 



Apocynace^. 

 F. B. I. iii. 660. 

 The Plains. 

 Cultivated. 



evergreen, stem stout, woody, a lofty climber, shoots 

 rusty velvety ; leaves 7-12 by 3-7 in., oblong-ovate with a 

 broad tip ending in a long point, smooth above, rarely 

 felted beneath, stalks |-1 in. ; flowers 3-5 in. long in few- 

 or many-flowered terminal clusters, bracts leafy, calyx 

 lobes 5, 1-2 in. long, oblong-lanceolate, long-pointed, corolla 

 tubular and bell-shaped, lobes 5, 1 in., rounded except the 

 tip, broad, overlapping to the right, stamens 5, at the top 

 of the tube, included in the throat ; anthers f in., homy, 

 forked, meeting over and touching the stigma ; fruit very 

 fleshy, long, woody, dividing into 2 horizontally spreading 

 folUcles, seeds f in. long, flattened, ovate or oblong, crown- 

 ed with a tuft of hairs 1| in. long. 



Trachelospermum 

 fragrans, 



Apocynace^. 



F. B. I. ii. 667. 



Himalaya, 



2,6000 ft. 



Valleys below Simla, 



Lansdowne Falls. 



(Colletl). 



perennial, woody, smooth, shoots and leaf stalks vel- 

 vety, branches hanging down ; leaves 3-5 by 1-1| in., 

 lanceolate, narrowed to both ends, long-pointed, stalks 

 ^^ in. ; flowers | in. long and 1 in. diam., white, fragrant, 

 in axillary and terminal loose branching racemes, major 

 and minor stalks slender, calyx small, lobes 5, lanceolate, 

 |-| in. long, corolla tube ^-| in., with constricted mouth, 

 lobes 5, spreading, oblong, overlapping to the right, twisted 

 to the left, stamens as in the last species, anthers included 

 but not homy ; fruit of 2 follicles, 4-8 in. long, 

 separated from below, curved and almost touching at the 

 tips, seeds f in, long, many, slender, white, with a tuft of 

 long hairs, 



