8. Thunbergia grandiflora Roxb. Thunbergia grandiflora Roxb. Hort. Beng. 45. 1814; Fl. Ind. 3: 34. 1832. Type collected near Calcutta, India. Thunbergia cordifolia Nees in DC. Prodr. 11: 55. 1847. Type collected at Assam and deposited in the Hooker Herbarium, Kew. A large herbaceous or suffrutescent finely pubescent vine twining up high trees; tips of stems subquadrangular and narrowly winged on the angles; leaf blades ovate, up to 20 cm. long and wide, acuminate at apex, cordate or hastate at base (basal sinus usually broad and rounded), often coarsely toothed or lobed below the middle; petioles up to 10 cm. long; flowers axillary or borne on slender bracted, terminal and often recurved racemes; spathe 2-valved, the valves obliquely oblong, up to 3.5 cm. long and 2 cm. wide, acuminate, striate-nerved and bearing small scattered black dots; corolla white or light blue, campanulate, up to 6 cm. long, the limb about 5 cm. broad; stamens included, the exterior cell of each posterior anther armed with a rigid sharp white curved spur about 3 mm. long; capsule globular, 16 mm. in diameter, tipped by a stout beak about 2 cm. long. Gardens, thickets, forests. Planted or established as an escape in tropical regions throughout many parts of the world. ATLÁNTICO: Barranquilla, Bro. Elias 794 (US). CUNDINAMARCA: Girardot, Pérez-Arbeláez 379 (US). Granja Cafetera En- rique Soto, La Esperanza, Gutiérrez 410 (GH).