378 CVIL BIGNONIACEE, (C. B. Clarke.) [Oroxylum. 
O. indicum, Vent. Dec. Gen. Nov. 8; Kurz For. Fl. à. 297. 
Bignonia indica, Linn. Sp. Pl.871; Lamk. Dict. i. 423; Roxb. FT. Ind. 
iii. 110; Wall. Cat. 6514; Bedd. For. Man. 148. B. pentandra, Lour. Fl. 
Cochinch. 379. Spathodea indica, Pers. Syn. ii. 178. Calosanthes indica, 
Blume Bijd. 760; DC. Prodr. ix. 177; Wight Ic. t. 1337; Dulz. 4 Gibs. 
Bomb. Fl. 161; Bureau Monogr. Bign. t. 9; Brand. For. Fl. 347.— Rheede 
Hort. Mal. i. t. 43. 
Throughout INDIA, alt. 0-3000 ft., from the Himalaya to Ceylon and Malacca, com- 
mon ; not in the western drier area, but in the Terai west to the Chenab (Brandis). 
—DIsTRIB. Malaya, Cochin China, Ava. 
Attains 25—40 ft. (Roxburgh says “one of the tallest trees on the Coromandel 
coast," concerning which there must be some mistake); bark thick. Leaves 2-4 ft. 
diam., ternately bipinnate; leaflets 5 by 3-4 in., acuminate ; petiolule short. Peduncle 
1 foot, thick; raceme 10 in.; pedicels 4-1 in. Calyx 1 by 4 in., fleshy. Corolla 
2} in., fleshy; mouth 2-33 in. diam. Stamens shortly exsert; base of filaments 
woolly ; fifth filament rather shorter than the other 4; anther-cells divergent below ; 
connective with a short mucro. Disc large, fleshy. Style 24 in. ; stigma j in. wide, 
of 2 semicircular plates. Capsule 1-3 ft. by 2-31 in., hardly 4 in. thick, margins 
somewhat incurved ; valves woody ; septum flat. Seeds including the wing attaining 
3 by 14 in. (usually smaller), winged all round except at the base; those attached on 
opposite margins of the septum scarcely overlapping. 
IV. TECOMA, Juss. 
Shrubs or small trees, erect or scandent. Leaves usually opposite, 1n 
the 1 Indian species simple, in others compound. Racemes or panicles 
terminal. Calyx tubular-campanulate, subequally 5-toothed. Corolla 
tubular-ventricose, orange or red ; lobes 5, round, subequal. Capsule linear 
or narrow, loculicidally 2-valved, somewhat compressed at right angles to 
the septum. Seeds thinly discoid; wing hyaline, broad.—Species 24, in the 
tropics of the whole world, mostly American. 
T. undulata, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 223; leaves narrowly oblong 
entire undulate. DC. Prodr. ix. 222; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 161; 
Brand. For. Fl. 352; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 80. T. P glauca, DC. l. c. 223. 
Bignonia undulata, Smith Exot. Bot. i. 35,+.19; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 101; 
Wall. Cat. 6498. B. glauca, Dene. in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 137, t. 142. 
Tecomella undulata, Seem. in Seem. Journ. Bot. i. 18. 
WESTERN INDIA, alt. 0-3000 ft. ; Scinde, Punjab, Guzerat, Rajputana, extending 
eastwards to the Jumna.—DisTRIB. Beloochistan, Arabia. 
A shrub or small tree; innovations stellately grey-puberulous, otherwise glabrate. 
Leaves 6 by lj in. obtuse; petiole $ in. Corymbs few-fld., mostly on shortened 
lateral branches; pedicels }-} in. Calyx } in.; lobes hardly à in., broad, obtuse. 
Corolla lj in. orange. Stamens scarcely exsert, glabrous; anther-cells distinct, 
pendulous, narrowly oblong. Dise cup-shaped. Stigma spathulate, sub-2-lobed. 
Capsule 8 by j in., slightly curved ; valves tough, thin. Seeds (including the wing) 
1 by 4 in., wing very narrow round the apex of the seed, O at its base. 
V. DOLICHANDRONE, Seem. 
Trees, glabrous or tomentose. Leaves opposite, 1-pinnate. Racemes or 
panicles terminal. Calyx in wstivation closed, at flower-time cleft to the base 
on one side, spathaceous. Corolla-tube long or short; lobes 5, subequal, 
round, crisped crenate or incised. Capsule elongate, terete or somewhat 
compressed, loculicidally 2-valved, sub-4-celled. Seeds thinly discoid, on 
