Beaumontia.} APOCYNACEA. 677 
overlapping to the ge each produced into a short or long, often 
_ twisted tail. Stamens 5, adnate to top of corolla-tube, included ; 
filaments short; anthers sagittate, tips filiform, connivent round 
and adnate to stigma; cells spurred at the base. Disk 0. Carpels 
2, glabrous, distinct, each many-ovuled; style filiform, rugose 
with cellular papille, tip dilated; stigma columnar or conic, 
simple or 2-fid. Fruit of 2, oblong or elongated, hard, spreading 
follicles. Seeds compressed, fusiform, narrowed to a penicillate 
tail or with a sessile coma; base with a deciduous tuft of hairs 
1223. fete seme POE ccaatag Ai DO. oF. Bed. iii. 655. 
ten Be: £, iis 9. 
"1 aiinber.” 
558. Roupellia Wall. 
Glabrous shrubs, often climbing; leaves opposite. Flowers 
7 large, showy, white or purplish, in terminal, dichotomous cymes. 
_ Sepals connate in a 5-partite calyx; tube glandular within; lobes 
oblong or lanceolate. Petals 5, connate in a funnel-shaped 
10 scales usually more or less connate at the base; se wide, 
overlapping to the right, without tails. Stamens 5 to top 
| of tube, included; filaments short; anthers Sianiadaltteli tips 
acuminate, connivent round and adnate to stigma; bases pro- 
duced as empty appe pendages. Disk 0. Carpels 2, ET or 
distinct, each many-ovuled; style thickish; stigma kened, 
base dilated in a somewhat reflexed membrane. Frwit ore 2 long, 
hard, thick follicles, connate at base, divaricate above. 
1224. Rovupeniia grata W 
Frequently planted: : 
A large climber; native of Africa. 
559. Beaumontia Wall. 
Evergreen renee: shrubs; leaves opposite, membranous ; . 
nerves distant, arched. Flower very large, white, in terminal 
cymes ; bracts a Sepals connate in a 5-partite calyx; tube 
glandular or not within; lobes large, leafy. Petals 5, co ce 
a funnel-shaped corolla; tube very short; throat much wide: : 
narrowly campanulate, naked; pon broad, overlapping to the 
right. orate oe top of the apn arame in 
