4^ PENXANDKIA SIONOGYMA, Y-orGntt* 



and terminal, longer than the leaves, few-flowered. Corolla infun- 

 dibuliform ; tube many times longer than the calyx ; border fiat, 

 spreading. Style and stigma intire. Wings of the fruit-bearing 

 calyx very large, oblong, unequal. 



A native of the environs of Katwmanda, especially the mountains 

 of Shivapoor,* blossoming during the rainy season, and ripening its 

 fruit in January and February. 



This noble plant is so like an Ipomoea in habit and (lowers that 

 for a long time I took it to be a species of that extensive genus ; 

 nor did I discover my error until I had obtained its fruit, which at 

 once decided it to be a Parana. — Branches slender, angular, pur- 

 plish, twining to a considerable extent; beset with soft curved shin- 

 ing hair, as are also .all the other parts. — Leaves remote, ovate-cor- 

 date, from four to six inches long, tapering considerably, ending in a 

 most slender linear acumen, measuring an inch in length ; sinus at the 

 base broad with large round lobes ; membranaceous, hairy on 

 both sides, particularly while young ; margins entire, slightly ciliate ; 

 seven-nerved, the exterior nerves uniting at the base, reticulate-ve- 

 nous. — Petioles slender, furrowed, about as long as the leaves. — 

 Peduncles axillary and terminal, slender, spreading, almost twice as 

 long as the leaves, solitary, terminating with a raceme of six or eight 

 ■very large and showy, rose-coloured, short-peduncled, inodorous 

 Jlowers. Bractes minute, linear, densely hairy ; one under each 

 pedicel. — Calyx tubular, small, purplish, scarcely equalling its pe- 

 dicel, deeply divided into five linear, acute, fleshy, ciliate, somewhat 

 unequal lacinice.— Corolla infundibuliform ; tube very slender, two- 

 thirds of an inch long, the base slightly swelling and hairy within; 

 the upper end rather suddenly widening into the flat, most spread- 

 ing, plicated limb measuring more than an inch in diameter, ob- 

 scurely divided into fine retuse lobes, each terminating with a subu» 

 iate villous point; throat narrow. — Stamina scarcely reaching to, 



* Commonly called Sheopore. 



