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proceed as with the first. These operations are performed during 
the months of November, December, January, and February ; 
should any of the trees appear sickly the following season, one or 
more years respite is given them. 
214. BIGNONIA SUBEROSA. 
Arboreous. Bark deeply cracked, and spongy. Leaves superde- 
compound : /eaflets subcordate, entire, polish’d, with taper, obtuse 
points. Panicles terminal. Tube of the corol long and slender. An- 
thers calcarate. Silique linear, thin, smooth. 
Millingtonia hortensis. Linn. suppl. 291. 
Trunk straight. Bark light ash-colour, deeply cracked in various 
directions, and of asoft spongy nature. 
Leaves opposite, superdecompound, about two feet long. 
Leaflets subcordate, with long, taper, obtuse points, margins entire; 
of a deep dark green-colour, and smooth on both sides ; from 
one to three inches long. 
Petioles and petiolets, a little channel’d. 
Panicles terminal, solitary, cross-armed, large, broad-ovate. Rami- 
fications horizontal, the first trichotomous, then dichotomous, 
with generally a single flower in the fork. 
Bractes minute. 
Flowers numerous, large, pure white, and, like many of the other 
species of this charming genus, delightfully, fragrant. 
Calyx very small, slightly five-parted: divisions nearly equal and 
revolute. 
Corol infundibuliform. Tube from two to three inches long, slender, 
and cylindric. Border four-parted, the upper division broader, 
and nearly half two-cleft. 
Filaments only four. Anthers calcarate. 
Germ oblong. Style as long as the corol. Stigma bilobate. 
Stlique slender, linear, thin, pointed, pretty smooth, two-celled, 
about 12 inches long, three quarters of an inch broad, and one 
line thick. 
Seeds numerous, round, very thin, and surrounded with a remark- 
ably fine transparent wing. 
The native country of this beautiful tree I have not been able 
to discover ; all I can learn is, that some plants, or seeds, were 
brought from the Rajah of Tanjour’s garden, to Madras; from 
thence one plant was procured for the Company's Botanic garden 
at Calcutta, about twelve years ago. It is now an elegant tree, of 
about 30 feet in height ; is in blossom about the close of the rains; 
the seeds ripen in March. 
KYDIA.* 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Calyx double: exterior four-six-leaved. Corol spreading. Anthers 
fascicled. Stegmas three. Capsule three-celled, three-valved. 
Seed solitary. 
* In memory of the late Colonel Robert Kyd, whose love for the science induced him, 
at the desire of the Honourable the English East India Gompany, to begin the Botani- 
cal Garden, and Public Nursery at Calcutta, in Bengal ; which he conducted with much 
success during his life. 
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215. KYDIA CALYCINA. 
Exterior calyx four-leaved, longer than the corol 
Pandiky of the Telingas. | 
Choupulta of the Hindoos. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Trunk tolerably straight. Bark ash-coloured. Branches many, form- 
ing a large, dense head. Bark of the young shoots covered 
with a brown meally dust. 
Leaves alternate, petioled, broad-cordate, more or less three, or five- 
angled, irregularly dentate, three, or five-nerved, both sides 
downy with stellate hairs, and a meally dust ; size from three 
to six inches each way ; on the principal nerve, and some- 
times on each of the two next to it, an oblong, hollow, yel- 
low gland. 
Petioles round, two or three inches long, meally. 
Panicles terminal, large, ramous, many-flowered. 
Flowers numerous, pure white, collected in small umbellets: many 
of them are perfectly male. 
Bractes small, rust-coloured. 
Calyx double. Exterior four-leaved: leaflets oblong, spreading, ob- 
tuse, downy, three times longer than the inner, permanent. 
Interior one-leaved, campanulate, five-cleft, outside meally; 
inside clothed with short, white hairs. 
Petals five, obliquely obcordate, much longer than the inner calyx, 
but shorter than the exterior, woolly at the base. 
Filaments five, very short, thick, coalesced into atube. Antherstwenty; 
four sessile on the apex of each of the five short filaments. 
Germ above, conical. Style three-cleft: divisions recurved. Stigmas 
large. 
Capsule small, somewhat three-lobed, hid inthe inner calyx, three- 
celled, three-valved, opening from the apex. 
Seeds, one in each cell, obtusely three-sided, brown, affixed to the 
bottom of the cell. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
A native of the coast of Coromandel, as well as of Hindoostan ; 
where it delights in such soil as is generally found on the banks of 
rivulets. Flowering time the cool season. 
216. KYDIA FRATERNA. 
Exterior calyx six-leaved, shorter than the corol. 
Pootrie of the Telingas. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Trunk straight. Bark rust-coloured. 
Leaves in every respect like those of Kydia calycina. 
Panicles terminal as in the former, but not so ramous. 
Flowers and Bractes, also the same, but the pedicells are shorter, and 
thicker than in K. calycina. 
Calyx double. Exterior five, or six-leaved, (or cleft to very near the 
base) : Ceaflets oval, length of the inner calyx. Jnner one-leaved, 
campanulate. 
Corol as in Kydia calycina. 
Filaments as long as their tube, and recurvate. Anthers twenty ; 
four on the apex of each filament. 
