632 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



cenee is exactly the same in both species ; in T. grandifiora the flowers are very 

 generally in terminal racemes, the upper bracts (floral leaves) being often only •25 to 

 •5 in. long. 



3. Thunbergia fragrans, Eoxb. Cor. PL I. 47 t. 67 (1795). Twining, 

 often 4 to 8 ft. long. Leaves 3 by 1 to 1"5 in., oblong or elliptic, 

 obtuse, rounded or hastate at base, nearly entire, nearly glabrous 

 or (in form javanica) pubescent, sub-3-nerved ; petiole "25 to -5 in. 

 long. Peduncles 1 to 3 in. long, axillary, solitary, rarely two together ; 

 bracteoles (prophylla) -5 to '7 in. long, oblong-lanceolate. Calyx of 

 about 12 narrow-oblong teeth -15 in. long. Corolla white; tube -5 to 

 •75 in. long, narrow-oblong, contracted at top and bottom ; limb of 



5 obovate, emarginate, spreading lobes. Stamens 4, in the corolla-tube, 

 glabrous ; anthers not spurred ; pollen globose (50 /a in diam.J, the 

 borders of the spiral bands carrying spines so long that the bands are 

 obscured. Pistil glabrous ; the 2 stigmatic lobes opposite. Capsule 

 cuboid-globose, "4 in. in diam. ; beak -8 in. long, oblong-linear. Seeds 

 4 for by suppression fewer), hemispheric, cerebroid, granular, with 

 a hole in the plane face. Nees in DC. Prodr. XI. 56 ; Kurz For. Fl. II. 

 240 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 390 {ivith all syn.) ; 

 Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. XVII. (1893) Beibl. 41, pp. 36, 38, and in Engl. 



6 Prantl Pflanzenfam. IV. 3 B, 292 ; Eidley in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 ser. 2, III. (1893; 332, and in Journ. As. Soc. Straits 121 (Singapore 

 1900) ; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXVI. (1890) 237 ; Prain Beng. 

 Plants 795. 



Pekan: fide Bidley. — Disteib. Throughout India, extending to 

 Timor; Philippine Islands (Palawan, Bermejos 193). 



Forma /3 javanica (sp.), Gaertn. f. Fruct. III. (1805; 22 t. 183, 

 fig. 4 ; leaves beneath, petioles, and peduncles pubescent (in Wray 

 52, rufous shaggy). Blume Bijdr. 806 ; Moritzi ! Verz. Zollinger 

 Pfl. 46 ; Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bogor. 147. 



Singapore : Kunstler 25 ; Ulu Kenring, Wray 52. Kbdah : Curtis. 

 — DisTRiB. Throughout Malaya to North Australia. 



4. Thunbergia alata, Sims Bot. Mag. t. 2591 (1825). Villous. 

 Leaves cordate-ovate, subentire ; petioles 1 to 2 in. long, often winged. 

 Corolla yellow or nearly white ; tube with a dark claret mouth, exactly 

 cylindric, twice as thick as that of T. fragrans, otherwise resembling 

 T. fragrans. Bojer Hort. Maurit. 259 (1837) ; Hook. Exot. Fl. III. 

 t. 177, Bot. Mag. t. 3512; Kurz For. Fl. II. 240; C. B. Clarke in Hook, 

 f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 491 ; Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. XVII. (1893) Beibl. 

 41, 37, 40, and in Engl. & Prantl Pflanzenfam. IV. 3 B, 292 ; Burkill in 

 Dyer Fl. Trop. Afr. V. 9, 16 ; Prain Beng. Plants 795 ; Eidley in Journ. 

 As. Soc. Straits 121 (Singapore 1900). 



