382 cvil. BIGNONIACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) — [Mayodendron. 
M. igneum, Kurz Preliminary Pegu For. Rep. App. D, with a fig., 
and For. Fl. ii. 933. Spathodea ignea, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1871, pt. 1. 
p. 77. 
MARTABAN up to 3000 ft., not infrequent ; Kurz.—DISTRIB. Ava, Yunan. 
A tree, 30-40 ft.; innovations minutely puberulous. Leaves ample, lower pinne 
2-pinnate ; leaflets 3—4 in., elliptic, acuminate. Racemes 5-fld., pedicels j in. Calya 
$in., puberulous. Corolla 23 by 13 in., orange crimson ; narrow cylindric portion o 
the tube much shorter than the funnel-shaped part; lobes i—j in. long. Capsule 
18 by } in., subterete, glabrous. Seeds including the pellucid wings, narrow-linear, 
j in. long. e 
VIII. STEREOSPERMUM, Cham. 
Trees. Leaves l- or 2-pinnate. Panicles large, lax, terminal. Calyx 
ovoid, open or closed in the bud, during flower truncate or shortly a 
equally lobed. Corolla tubular-ventricose, yellow or pale rose; lobes », 
nearly equal, round, crisped toothed or laciniate. Capsule elongate, terete, 
subcompressed or obscurely quadrangular, loculicidally 2-valved; septum 
thickened, subterete. Seeds in 1 or 2 series, compressed or subtrigonous, 
with a membranous wing on each side.—Species 10, in tropical Asia and 
Africa. 
Sect. 1. Eustereospermum. Leaves 1-pinnate. 
1. S. chelonoides, DC. Prodr. ix. 210; leaflets elliptic caudate- 
acuminate glabrous, panicle-branches slender glabrous, corolla ? in., capsule 
linear obscurely quadrangular, seeds subtrigonous embedded in notches m 
the septum. Wight Te. t. 1341; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 72; Brand. For. Fi. 
352; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 230. Bignonia chelonoides, Linn. f. Suppl. 282 ; 
Roxb. Fl. Ind.ii.106; Wall. Cat. 6501. B. caudata, Mig. in Pl. Hohe- 
nack. n. 182, not of DC.  Heterophragma chelonoides, Dalz. 4 Gibs. Bomb. 
Fl. 160.— Rheede Hort. Mal. vi. t. 25. 
Through moister INDIA ; from the Terai of Oudh and Assam to Ceylon and Pegu. 
—DISTRIB. Ava. . 
A tree, 30-60 ft., nearly glabrous except the flowers. Leaves 12-18 in.; leaflets 
7-11, 5 by 2 in. ; petiolule 4-} in. Calyx à in., shortly 8-5-toothed. Corolla thinly 
villous within and without; tube rose, lobes yellow or pale flesh-colour, crisped . 
Capsule 12-20 by i-i in. smooth or speckled. Seeds 1 by lin., easily splitting 
through the centre. 
2. S. neuranthum, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1873, pt. ii. 91, and For. 
Fl. ii. 230; leaflets oblong or ovate shortly acuminate hairy beneath, panicle 
short corymb-like viscous-hairy, corolla 13 in., capsule linear slender sub- 
terete keeled, seeds subtrigonous embedded in notches in the septum. 
Prev and Moutmein; M‘Lelland, Parish, Kurz. 
A tree, 40-60 ft.; innovations softly villous or subtomentose. Leaves 1-14 foot; 
leaflets 5-7, 5 by 2} in.; petiolule din. Panicle loose, about 12-fld. Calyx à m., 
hairy; lobes 3-5, very short, broad. Corolla very pale lilac or blueish white (Kurz), 
sparsely pilose ; lobes rounded, crisped crenate hardly toothed. Capsule 12 by 4-4 in., 
less woody than that of S. chelonoides ; valves l-ribbed on the back;, seeds and 
septum asin S. chelonoides. 
3. S. suaveolens, DC. Prodr. ix. 211; leaflets broadly elliptic acum- 
nate or acute entire or serrulate young hairy, panicle very compound many- 
fld. viscous hairy, corolla 1-1} in., capsule linear terete woody, seeds subire" 
nous embedded in notches of the septum. Wight Ic. t. 1342; Bedd. for. 
Man. 169; Brand. For. Fl. 351; Tue For. Fl. ii. 231.. Bignonia suaveo- 
