Beaumontia^ 



50. AroOYNAOE;E. 



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to tho right. Stamens included, anthers horny^ sagittate, cells 

 spurred at the base. Disk deeply 5-lobed. Ovary 2-celled ; style 

 filiform, top clavate, stigma fusiform ; cells many-ovulcd. Fruit of 

 2 connate follicles, separating when ripe. Seeds with a crown of 

 silky hairs at the hilum. 



B. Jerdoniana, Wgt. Icones. 1. 1314, 5 ; Fl. Br. 1. 3. 661. 



On the Western ghdts from the Konkan southwards in the evergreen 

 forests of the Konkan and North Kdnara ghats. Sir J. Hooker says, 

 *' probably will have to be ranked as a variety of B. grandiflora, Wall." 

 Fl. Nov.-Dec. Fr. ripe following Nov. -Dec. An ornamental climber. 



15. CHONEMORPHA, G. Don. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves broad, opposite. Flowers large, white, 

 in terminal, peduncled cymes. Calyx 5-cleft, with a ring of glands 

 at the bottom of the tube. Corolla salver-shaped, lobes twisted in 

 bud, throat naked. Stamens at the top of the tube, filaments short, 

 broad, villous ; anthers sagittate, connate, pungent, cells spurred. 

 Disk thick, annular. Ovaries 2, oblong, style filiform, base cleft, 

 stigma sub-clavate, many-ovuled. Follicles straight, hard, trigo* 

 nous. Seeds with a crown of long silky hairs. 



C. macrophylla, G. Don. Gen. Syst. IV. 76 ; Fl. Br. I. 3. 661 ; Bran- 

 dis For. Fl. 328. Echites grandis, Wall. ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 147. 



Throughout the moist forests of India from the Himalayas to Travan- 

 core, Ceylon, Malacca, and the Andamans. Throughout the evergreen 

 forests of the Koukan and North Kanara. Common in the Supa forests. 

 Fl. Apl.-Sept. Fr. 0. S. A large climber with handsome flowers. 



16. AGANOSMA, G. Don. 



Evergreen climbers. Leaves opposite. Flowers in terminal 

 cymes. Calyx 5 -divided, glandular at the base. Corolla salver 

 shaped with bearded, longitudinal bands behind the anthers ; lobes 

 overlapping to the right. Stamens included | anthers sagittate, 

 rigid, connate. Disk 5-lobed, cupular. Carpels 2, many-ovuled. 

 Style short, urn shaped, stigma columnar. Follicles woody, coria- 

 ceous. Seeds glabrous^ albumen scanty. 



A. cymosa, G. Don. Gen. Syst. IV. 77 ; Fl. Br. I. 3. 665 ; var. 4, 



elegans, Aganosma Donianaf Wight., Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 146. 



Silhet, Western Peninsula from Bombay to Travancore. Throughout 

 the evergreen forests of the Konkan and North Kanara. Fl. Apl.-June. 

 Fr, next C. S, A caryophyllata, G. Don. Fl. Br. I. 3. 664, is cultivated in 

 gardens. The lax cymes and linear calyx-lobes distinguish it from the 

 indigenous species. 



