180 APOCYNER. [ Beaumontia, ~ 
3-1 in. long, shortly tomentose, robust pedicels, forming a shortly 
peduncled, shortly. tomentose, raceme-like corymb at the end of the 
branchlets ; calyx-lobes about an inch long or somewhat longer, 
obovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, velvety-tomentose ; corolla — 
about 3 in. long, campanulate funnel-shaped, puberulous outside, 
the lobes short and broad, acute; follicles horizontally diverging, 
linear, with incurved a points, pretty smooth, as thick as the 
little finger, 6-10 in. long. 
Has.—Chittagong hills.—Fl. D.S, 
PARSONSIA, R. Br. 
Calyx almost 5-parted, the lobes without glands or with an 
irregular ring of minute glands inside at the base. Corolla-tube 
cylindrical or nearly globular, the throat without scales, the lobes 
spreading, twisted in bud. Stamens inserted at or below the 
middle of the tube, the filaments often twisted under the anthers, 
the latter oblong, lanceolate or linear, wholly or partially exserted, 
cohering in a cone or ring round the stigma, the cells with a — 
rigid basal lobe destitute of pollen. Hypogynous scales 5, as long 
as the ovary, free or united in a folded ring. Ovary 2-celled, with 
numerous ovules in each cell; stigma surrounded by a ring or 
membranous expansion at the base, usually 2-lobed. Fruit elon- 
gated, nearly terete, separating more or less completely into 2 
follicles. Se with a crown of long silky hairs at the hilum.— 
Twining shrubs, with opposite leaves. Flowers small, in terminal 
or axillary corymbose cymes; bracts small. 
P. spiralis, R. Br.—An evergreen twining shrub, all parts 
glabrous ; leaves oblong to elliptical, rounded or acute, and often 
haee - 
indistinctly puberulous; corolla-lobes linear, about 2-3 lin. long, — 
longer than the short tube; follicle cylindrically linear, somew gee 
compressed, about 5 in. long, acuminate, glabrous. : 
Has.—Pegu, above Rangoon; Tenasserim.—F. Apr. 
VALLARIS, Burm. 
