^O BOTANICAL OBSERVATIONS 



darker pink without, bright yellow within. Cyme 

 terminal, spreading, 



45. Atimucta : 



Syn. Puridraca, Vdsanti y Madftavilata. 



Vulg. Mddhavila ta . 



Link. Bengal Banisteria. 



Rheede: Dewenda, 6 H. M. tab. 59. 



Cal< Perianth one-leaved, five-parted, permanent y 

 divisions coloured , oblong-oval, obtuse; between 

 two of them a rigid glossy honey-bearing tubercle, 

 hearted, acute. 



Cor. Five-petaled, imitating a boat-form corol. 

 Wings, two petals, conjoined back to back, in- 

 volving the nectary, and retaining the honey. 



Awning, large concave, more beautifully coloured. 

 Keel, two petals, less than the wings, but similar. 

 All five roundish, elegantly fringed, with reflected 

 margins, and short oblong claws. 



St am. Filaments ten ; one longer. Anthers oblong, 

 thickish, furrowed, 



Pi st. Germs two, or three, coalesced. Style -one, 

 thread-form, incurved, shorter than the longest fila- 

 ment. Stigma simple. 



Per. Capsides two or three, mostly two, coalesced 

 back to back $ each keeled, and extended into three 

 oblong membranous wings, the lateral shorter than 

 the central. 



Si; lds roundish, solitary* 



Rdf ernes axillary. Flowers delicately fragrant; white, 

 with a shade of pink; the large petal supported by 

 the nectareous tubercle, shaded internally with 



bright 



