134 58. APOCYNACE.E. {^Beaumontia-. 



BEAUMONTIA, Wall. 



Climbers. Leaves opposite. Flowers large white, in terminal 

 cymes; bracts leafy. Calyx 5-tlivided, glandular inside at the base. 

 Corolla bell-shaped with a short tube, lobes overlapping to the right. 

 Stamens included, anthers horny, sagittate^ cells spurred at the 

 base. Ovary 2-celled ; cells niany ovuled. Fruit of 2 connate 

 follicles, separating when ripe. Seeds with a crown of silky hairs 

 at the hilum. 



B. Jerdoniana, Wgt. Icones. t. 1314, o ; F]. P.r. I. 3, 661. In the 

 evergreen forests of the Konkan and North Kanara ghats. Sir J. 

 Hooker says, "probably will have to be ranked as a variety of B, grandi- 

 flora, Wall." Fl. Nov., Dec. Fr. ripe following Nov., Dec. 



CHONEMORPHA, G. Don. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves broad, opposite. Flowers large, in 

 terminal, peduncled cymes. Calyx 5-cleft, with a ring of glands at 

 the bottom of the tube. Corolla salver-shaped, lobes twisted in 

 bud, throat naked. Stamens at the top of the tube, filaments short, 

 broad, villous; anthers sagittate, connate, pungent; cells spurred. 

 Disc thick, annular. Ovaries 2, oblong, many ovuled. Follicles 

 straight, hard, trigonous. Seeds with a crown of long silky hairs. 



C. macropliylla, G. Don Gen. Syst. IV. 76; Fl. Br. I. 3. 661; 

 Brandis For. Fl. 328. Echites gran'dis, Wail. ; Dalz, & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 

 147. Throughout the evergi-een forests of the Konkan and North 

 K4nara. Common in the Su pa forests. Fl. Apl.-lriept. Fr. C.S. 



AGANOSMA, G. Don. 



Climbers. Leaves opposite. Flowers in terminal cymes. Calyx 

 5-divided, glandular at the base. Corolla salver-shaped with beard- 

 ed, longitudinal bands behind the anthers ; lobes overlapping to the 

 right. Stamens included : anthers sagittate, rigid, connate. Disc 

 5-lobed, cupular. Carpels 2, many ovuled. Follicles woody, coria- 

 ceous. Seeds glabrous, albumen scanty. 



A. cymosa, G. Don. Gen. Syst. IV. 77 -. Fl. Br. I. 3. 665 ; var. 4, 

 elecjans ; Aganosma Donmna, Wight, Dalz. & Gibs. B )mb. Fl. 146. 

 Throughout the evergreen forests of the Konkan and North Kanara, 

 Fl. Apl.-June. Fr. next C. S. A. caryophyUata, G. Don. Fl. Br. I. 3. 

 664, is cultivated in gardens. The lax cymes and linear calyx-lobes 

 distinguish it from the indigenous species. 



ANODENDRON, A. DC. 



Lofty climbers. Leaves opposite. Flowers small in corymbose 

 panicles or cymes. Calyx 5-cleft, eglandular. Corolla salver- 

 shaped, mouth contracted, lobes narrow, twisted to the left. 

 Stamens with connate, sagittate anthers, cells shortly spurred at 



