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Sect. 2, Calyx of 8 to 12 teeth. Anther-cells not spurred. 

 Pollen spinous : — 



Petioles not winged. Corolla pure white . . . . 3. T. fragrans. 



Petioles often winged. Corolla yellow, with claret eye .. 4. T. alata. 



1. Thunbergia laueifolia, Lindl. in Gard. Chron. p. 260 (1856). 

 Scandent, up to 150 ft. long (Kurz). Leaves 3'5 by 1-5 in., broad- 

 oblong, wide at base, truncate or ovate, glabrous, sub-3-nerved, entire 

 or slightly toothed ; petioles '5 to 1 in. long. Peduncles axillary, 

 solitary, distant or more often running into terminal close racemes 

 2 to 5 in. long ; bracteoles (prophylla) 1 in. long, oblong, usually 

 slightly pubescent. Calyx a mere rim. Corolla 2 in. long, blue or 

 blue and white ; tube campanulate, only contracted for a very short 

 space at the base. Stamens 4, subsimilar ; filaments glabrous ; anther- 

 cells with a rigid long spur at the base, fringed with many long pilose 

 hairs ; pollen globose, large (50 /x in diam.), smooth, with obscure 

 broad spiral bands. Pistil glabrous ; the two stigmatic lobes suId- 

 opposite. Capsule globose, smooth, bro^vn, -25 in. in diam., with 4 to 

 2 seeds ; beak 1 to 1*25 in. long, oblong-linear. Seeds hemispheric, 

 cerebro-granular, excavated on the plane face. Hook. Bot. Mag. 

 t. 4985 ; Km^z For. Fl. II. 240 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 IV. 392 ; Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. XVII. (1893) Beibl. 41, pp. 41, 42, and 

 in Engl. & Prantl Pflanzenfam. IV. 3 b, 292 ; Eidley in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 ser. 2, III. (1893) 332. T. Harrisii, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4998. 



Malacca: Maingay (K.D.) 1170; Thoban Isle, Heifer; Goping, 

 King's Collector 1064. Peeak : Wray 3145 ; Scortechini 2197 ; Kings 

 CoZZector 3030, 8418. Pulau Manis : fide it icZ^et/. Penang and Kedah : 

 Curtis. — DiSTEiB. Northwards to Arracan. 



2. Thunbeegia geandifloea, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 45 (1813 to 

 1814). Leaves ovate or rounded, 3 to 6 in. in diam., pubescent beneath, 

 palmately 5- to 7-nerved from the base, usually angular or lobed, rarely 

 nearly entire ; otherwise as T. laurifolia. Eoxb. Fl. Ind. III. 34 ; 

 Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2366 ; Nees in DC. Prodi\ XI. 54 {loith all syn. 

 except Eoxb. Cor. PI. t. 67) ; Kurz For. Fl. II. 240 ; C. B. Clarke in 

 Hook, f . Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 392 ; Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. XVII. (1893) 

 Beibl. 41, pp. 37, 39, and in Engl. & Prantl Pflanzenfam. IV. 3 b, 292 ; 

 Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXVI. (1890) 237; Prain Beng. Plants 

 796. Flemingia grandiflora, Eottler in Neue Schr. GeseU. Nat. 

 Freunde IV. (1803) 202. 



, Singapoee : Schomburgk 84. — Disteib. Bengal to South China. 

 Perhaps Schomburgk's specimen was from a cultivated plant. 



This species runs excessively close to T. laurifolia, but Lindau has put T. grandi- 

 flora in a different Section because it has "flowers solitary, axillary." The inflores- 



