BEAUMONTIA GRANDIFLORA. 
Class. 
PENTANDRIA. 
( Great-flowered Beaumontia. ) 
Natural Order. 
APOCYNACEJ3. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Character —Calyx of five foliaceous, un- 
equal, erect segments. Corolla with a short tube and 
a large campanulate five-lobed limb ; lobes erect, 
ovate ; throat destitute of scales. Stamens five, in- 
serted in the throat of the tube, exserted ; anthers 
sagittate, beardless, cohering to the stigma : hind 
lobes without pollen ; filaments free. Style twisted. 
Ovarium two-celled, surrounded by a hypogynous 
five-lobed ring. Stigma oblong, with a bifid point. 
Follicles two, large, combined, but at length separat- 
ing. Seeds furnished with a tuft of hairs at the 
umbilical end. 
Specific Character.— Plant a climbing evergreen 
shrub. Leaves broad, oblong-ovate; with a little 
point, tapering towards the base, smooth and shining 
above, but rather downy beneath. Calyx downy. 
Corolla large, white, greenish outside near the base, 
and dark throat. Young leaves and branches rusty.— 
Don's Gardening and Botany. 
Synonyme — .Echites grandiflora. 
The superior method of plant culture in the present day is in no case more 
conspicuously evident than in the truly splendid manner many of the finer stove 
and other climbers are induced to luxuriate and display their superb flowers as pot 
plants. A few years ago it was considered no small attainment to obtain a few 
solitary blossoms from any of the fine things alluded to, when they were favoured 
by being planted in the stoves, greenhouses, &c. Now it scarcely excites surprise 
when we meet with some of the really finest things in cultivation growing in pots, 
and loaded with bloom. We do not assume that climbing plants can be seen to 
advantage, or in their true character, growing in pots : necessarily they cannot, 
for climbers of any description can never wear a too wild and highly natural 
aspect. But we wish the horticultural achievements first, of flowering many of 
these plants at all, and next, to doing so in such a superior manner in pots, to 
be properly estimated. 
Beaumontia grandiflora is one of the finest of the class of plants above spoken 
of. It is a stove climber, a native of Chittagong and Silthet, where it was discovered 
by Dr. Wallich, and by him sent to this country, about 1820. The plant is strong- 
growing, and has opposite, oblong, dark-green smooth leaves. Its flowers are pro- 
duced in corymbs, which are axillary or terminally borne, and are very large, funnel- 
shaped. Under favourable culture, it flowers very freely from May to July. In its 
natural state it does so from November to June. 
