650 xciY. APOCTNACEJ!. (J. D. Hooker.) [Parsonsia. 



20. PAEISONSZA, £r. 



Twining shrubs. Leaves opposite. Flowers small, white, in terminal or 

 axillary dichotomous cymes or thyrsi. Calyx 5-partite, glandular within or 

 naked, or with 5 scales. Corolla salver-shaped, tuhe short, cjrlindric or glohose, 

 throat naked ; lohes overlapping to the right. Stamens inserted in the tube, fila- 

 ments often twisted ; anthers half-exserted, acute, conniving over and adhering 

 to the stigma, cells spurred and empty below. Disc of 5 lobes or scales. Ovary 

 2-oelled ; style filiform, top dilated, truncate, stigma coluronar or elongate- 

 conical, cells many-ovuled. Fruit cylindi'ic, carpels at length separating from 

 the two placentas. Seeds linear or oblong, tip narrowed and penicillate, albu- 

 men scanty; cotyledons linear-oblong, flat, radicle superior. — Disteib. 12 

 species of tropical Asia, Australia and New Zealand. 



P. spiralis, W(dl. Cat. 1631 ; quite glabrous, leaves ovate oblong or 

 oblong-lanceolate base acute rarely rounded or cordate, cymes axillary corym- 

 bose. A. DC. Prodr. viii. 402 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 180. P. oblonga, Wall. Cat. 

 1632 ; A. DC. I. c. P. pauciflora and P. acuminata, WaU. Cat. 1638, 1634. 

 Helygia javanica, Blume Bijd. 1043. Heligme javanica, A. DC. I. c. 425. H. 

 Rheedei, Wight Ic. t. 1303; Dalz. ^ Oibs. Bonib. Fl. 146. H. spiralis, 

 Thwaites Enum. 193. Spirostemon spiralis, Cfriff. Notvl. iv. 80, t. 411, fig. 1. 

 Aganosma concanensis, Hooh. le. PI. t. 841. 



SiiHET ; Wallich. Pegu, Tenasserim, Maxacca, Singapore and Penang. Westeen 

 Ghats; from the Concan southwards. Cetion, ascending to 3000 ft. — ^Disteib. 

 Malay Archipelago, China. 



An evergreen twiner. leaves 3-7 by 1|-3J in., coriaceous, pale -when dry ; nerves 

 6-8 pairs, arched ; petiole |-1 in. Cymes 2-3 in. diam. ; peduncle stout, half as long 

 as the leaves ; bracts small. Sepals ovate, veiy thick, obtuse, equalling the corolla- 

 tube. Corolla J in. diam., coriaceous ; lobes Unear-oblong, obtuse. Fruits 7 by J in., 

 or shorter, elongate, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, quite cylindric, at length separating 

 into 2 coriaceous follicles. Seeds | in., slender, glabrous ; coma as long. 



Tbibe in. ECKXTZOES. 

 21. VAX.I.AXt,XS, Burm. 



Twining shrubs. Leaves opposite, minutely dotted. Flowers white, in 

 subaxiUary or axillary or supra-axillary dichotomous cymes, or fascicled. Calyx 

 5-partite, glandular or not within, segments narrow. Corolla salver-shaped, 

 tube short, throat naked ; lobes broad, overlapping to the right. Stamens at 

 the top of the tube, filaments very short clavate ; anthers exserted, conniving in 

 a cone adherent to the stigma, connective with a large dorsal gland, cells with 

 rigid basal spurs. Diso various. Carpels 2, at first connate, many-ovuled ; 

 style filiform, pubescent, stigma thick obscurely annulate. F?-uit oblong, 

 acuminate, carpels at_ length separating. Seeds 2-seriate, ovate, acuminate or 

 beaked, compressed, tip comoee, albumen scanty ; cotyledons flat thin, radicle 

 superior. — Disteib. Species 6 or 6, tropical Asiatic and Malayan. 



* Flowers cymose. Twining shrubs. 



1. v. Keynei, Spreng. Syst. i. 635 ; leaves elliptic or oblong or linear- 

 oblong acuminate peUucid-dotted, cymes pubescent. A. DC. Prodr. viii. 400 ■ 

 Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 144. V. dichotoma. Wall. Cat. 1621 ; Oriff. Notul. 

 iv. 77 ; A. DC. I. c. ; ^Thwaites Enum. 192 ; Brand. For. Fl. 827 ; ICurz For. Fl. 

 ii. 181 ; Wight Ic. t. 438. Echites dichotoma, Boxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 19. Peltan- 

 thera solanacea, Roth Nov. Sp. 132. 



