Tabernamonfana.] 



59. Al'OCYNACEiB. 



227 



deciduous. Styles 2, free to the base. Follicles yellow, smooth, curved, 

 usually with 2 sharp side ribs ; pulp surrounding the seeds red. 



T. coronaria, Br. (Taygar, Vern.), is a shrub commonly cultivated in 

 gardens throughout the presidency, not indigenous in Wcstorn India. 

 Flowers rainy season. 



10. PARSONSIA, Br. 



Twining shrubs. Leaves opposite. Flowers small, white, in ter- 

 minal or axillary, dichotomous cymes. Calyx 5-partite, glandular 

 or 0, or with 5 scales. Corolla-tube short ; lobes overlapping to the 

 right. Stamens with twisted filaments ; anthers conniving over the 

 stigma. Disk of 5 lobes or scales. Ovary of 2 cells ; style filiform, 

 top dilated, truncate, stigma columnar ; cells many-ovuled. Fruit 

 cylindric, carpels at length separating from the placentas. Seeds 

 tufted ; albumen scanty. 



P. spiralis, Wall. Cat. 1631 ; FI. Br. I. 3. 650. Heligme javanica, A. 

 DO. ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 146. 



Silhet, Pegu, Tenasserim, Malacca, Singapore, Western ghats, in 



evergreen forests from the Konkan southwards. Common on the 



southern ghats of North Kanara. A twining glabrous shrub. Fi. at 

 difierent times throughout the year. 



11. VALLARIS, Burm. 



Climbers. Leaves minutely gland-dotted. Flowers white, in 

 axillary dichotomous cymes or fascicled. Calyx 5-partite. Corolla 

 tube short, lobes overlapping to the right. Stamens at the top of 

 the tube ; anthers exserted, conniving in a cone, connective with a 

 dorsal gland, cells spurred at the base. Disk various. Carpels 2, 

 connate, many-ovuled, style filiform, stigma thick. Fruit oblong. 

 Seeds compressed, tip comose, albumen scanty. 



V. Heynei, Spreng. Syst. L 635 ; Fl. Br. L 3. 650; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 144. V, dichotoma, Wall. ; Brandis For. Fl. 327. 



Tropical Himalaya, Western Peninsula from the Konkan southwards. 

 Throughout the dry districts of the presidency, also in the Konkan and 

 North Kanara, often in hedges. Fl. Dec.-Apl. 



12. WRIGHTIA. Br. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite. Flowers red, white or yellow, 

 in corymbose cymes. Calyx short, with 5-10 scales inside at base. 

 Corolla salver-shaped, tube short, throat with 1-2 series of fimbriate 

 scales, distinct or united in a ring, lobes overlapping to the left. 

 Stamens with 5 exserted, conniving anthers, cells spurred at the 

 base. Carpels 2, many-ovuled, style filiform, stigma ovoid, with 

 a toothed, basal ring ; ovules on axile placentas. Fruit of 2, linear 

 follicles ; seeds numerous^ tufted at the lower end, albumen 0. 



