Eedysanthera.} APOCYNE®. 189 
the tube ovoid-bell-shaped ; limb 5-lobed, the lobes short, slightly 
dextrorsely twisted. Stamens inserted at the base of the corolla ; 
anthers almost sessile, sagittate, connivent round the stigma, the 
cells at the base produced into empty tails. Disk annular, entire or 
5-lobed. Ovary-carpels 2, distinct; with numerous ovules ; style 
narrowly lanceolate, about 2-24 in. ong, acuminate, glabrous and 
smooth; seeds nearly } in. long, tapering upwards, the deciduous 
coma 1-14 in. long. 
Hazs.—Ava hills. 
PARAMERIA, Bth. 
Calyx 5-parted, glandular at the base inside. Corolla campan- 
ulate-salver-shaped, sinistrorsely twisted in bud, the throat without 
scales. Stamens inserted at the base of the corolla-tube and included ; 
filaments very short ; anthers sagittate-oblong, cohering in a cone 
round the stigma. Nectary 5-lobed. Ovaries 2, hardly longer than 
the nectary, many-ovuled ; style short; stigma conically capitate. 
BF ollicles elongate, slender, inflated at intervals and somewhat moni- 
form. Seeds terminated by a crown of long silky hairs.—Seandent 
shrubs, with opposite leaves. Flowers small, in terminal or axil- 
lary usually trichotomous cymes or corymbs. 
1 P, landulifera, DC.—An evergreen, large, scandent shrub, 
all parts x 
"pper leaves and at the end of the branchlets ; calyx-lobes oval, 
bl me corolla glabrous ; follicles slender, moniliform, 6-8 in. long, 
s. 
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