The Quisqualia indica, Or the Rangoon Creeper is named quixotically by the botanists. Its name in Latin means 'What is that'. The early botanist who saw the plant for the first time in England must have ejaculated "What is that?", and the name got stuck. But its name Madhumalti in Sanskrit means 'Honey jasmine."
The flowers match their name because they are surrounded by honey bees. The delicately scented flowers start as pale pink blossoms and become darker as they age, so that you see at least three diffenrent colours of flowers in one branch.
The British planted these creepers along railway tracks in Burma. That is how the Honey Jasmine got its other ugly name 'Rangoon Railway Creeper'!
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