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without appendages at the throat. Stamens 5, inserted at the base 
of the tube; anthers oblong, dilated at the base, longer than the 
filaments. Ovaries 2, ovoid, immersed in the disk, many-ovuled ; 
style single, with an oblong stigma 2-cleft at the apex. Follicles 
paired, oblong or linear, rarely ventricose, usually deflexed, many- 
seeded. Seeds oblong, compressed, sometimes mem branously 
winged. Albumen none. Embryo with large, broad, leafy cotyle- 
dons.—Small fleshy milky trees, with alternating or crowded leaves. 
Flowers large, arranged in terminal cymose corymbs. 
corym 
about $ in. long, the lobes nearly twice as long; follicles linear, 
cylindrical, diverging, about 5 in. long, glabrous. 
4B.—Of American origin, now very frequently seen in gardens and villages 
all over Burma.—Fl, March-Apr. 
BEAUMONTIA, Wall. 
thers elliptical, sagittate, cohering in a cone round the stigma, 
Nectary consisting of 5 fleshy blunt glands. Ovary 2-celled, im- 
mersed in the torus, each cell with numerous ovules ; style filiform, 
the stigma oblong, obsoletely 2-lobed at the summit. “Fruit con- 
Tipe separating. Seeds numerous, pendulous, imbricate, obovoid- 
oblong, with a crown of long silky hairs at: the hilum. umen 
fleshy. Embryo with oblong cotyledons.—Scandent shrubs, with 
Opposite leaves. Flowers usually large and showy, in terminal ra- 
ceme-like corymbs, 
I. B. grandiflora, Wall.—An evergreen, large, scandent shrub, 
the young parts densely and shortly velvety-tomentose ; leaves from 
obovate- to elliptically-oblong, acute or obtuse at the base, on a } 
late, entire, chartaceous, shortly and softly pubescent while young, 
adult glabrous ; flowers very large and showy, yellowish white, on 
