Thunbergia.} ACANTHACE&. 795 
687. Thunbergia Linn. f. 
Climbers ; leaves opposite, often caudate, hastate or angular. 
lowers exit ary, solitary or paired or racemose ; bracts at base of 
pedicels leaf-like ; bracteoles large, margins connate, at least when 
young. Sepals connate in a small, annular, or 10~-16-toothed calyx, 
j or obscure. Petals 5, connate in a conspicuous corolla; tube 
swollen, curved; limb oblique, with rounded lobes, twisted to the 
left in bud. ieee 4, didynamous, adnate near base of corolla- 
tube ; anthers 2-celled; cells parallel, oblique, spurred or not at 
the base. Disk annular or cushion-like. Carpels connate in a 
2-celled ovary ; ovules 2 in each cell, collateral ; style long; stigma 
funnel-like, 2-lobed or entire, or style 2-fid with capitate stigmas. 
Fruit a capsule, globose below, suddenly narrowed to a barren, 
sword-shaped beak. Seeds 2in each cell, pea or dorsally com- 
pressed, glabrous base plane or hollowed ; funicle minute or conic. 
Flowers axillary ; calyx 10-15-toothed; seeds ovoid, excavated at the 
base: 
* Corolla white, fragrant; petioles not wing 
Capsule glabrous ; calyx-teeth hardly teal than tube:— 
Pedicelg solitary in each axil; stems hairy .......--...++00 frag 
Pedicels often 2 in each axil; stems glabrous or ‘oy pelos 
ns var. levis. 
Capsule villous ; calyx-teeth much longer than t fabs: seseees tomentosa, 
Corolla yellow, with a brown or claret-coloured eye ; petioles sii 
Flowers racemed ; calyx an almost entire ring; seeds pnoees.* = 
LOTa 
pressed ; base plane; corolla blue andi; 
1498. TaunperGia FRaGraNs Roxb.; F. I. iii. 83; F. B. 1 
iv. 390 
engal, Duars. 
A slender climber. 
1498/2. Var. nevis; F. B. I. iv. 391. 
Behar; W. Bengal. 
A slender climber. 
1499. TuunperaIa TOMENTOSA Wall. ; F. B. I. iv. 891. 
1500. Tuunperera atata Boj.; F. B. I. iv. 89. 
E. Bengal, spontaneous ; Prater often cultivated. 
A slender climber, 
