516 T>r. Francis Hamilton's Commentary 



As I found this plant in the province of Canara, and presented 

 a drawing to Sir J. E. Smith, I shall annex a description. 



Bignonia Paiajielia, foliis impari-pinnatis, multijugis ; foliolis 

 integerrimis semicordatis, calyce ventricoso, bilabiate 



Pajaneli. Hort. Mai. i. 79- t. 44. 



Bignonia longifolia. JVilld. Sp. PL iii. 306? 



Cuntra (planta claudicans) Taulavae. 



Habitat in sylvis Indiae australis, oceanum versus occidenta- 

 lem. 



Arbor foetida, facie B. indica, trunco brevi, nodoso, simplici. 

 Rami pauci, stricti, subulati, ordine cicatricum ovaliurn 

 duplici spiraliter notati. Folia apices versus ramorum ap- 

 proximata, opposita, cum jmpari pinnata. Pinna circiter 

 duodecim parium, latere inferiore angustato, abbreviate, 

 semicordatae, integerrimae, acuminata?, glabra?, costatae, ve- 

 nosissimae, pedicellatae. Pctiolus communis pinna brevior, 

 estipulaceus, supra carinatus, subtus rotundatus. Thyrsus 

 terminalis, erectus, tres vel quatuor pedes longus, teres, 

 compositus e pedunculis oppositis, brachiatis, compressis, 

 farinosis, bis bifidis, subseptemfloris. Bractece squamiformes, 

 caducae, parvae, ad divisiones pedunculi gemina?. Flares 

 maximi, extus lurido-purpurei, intus albidi. Calyx pulvere 

 ferrugineo aspersus, ante floris maturitatem pulpo glutinoso 

 albido farctus. Calyx campanulatus, quinquangularis, bi- 

 labiatus : labium superius longius, obtusum, bilobum, infe- 

 rius trilobum, obtusum. Corolla, tubo angustato, campa- 

 nulata, calyce duplo longior, obliqua, lobis quinque crispis, 

 ad marginem lanatis incisa. Filamenta quinque, quorum 

 quatuor inferiora e basi tubi crassa, declinata, compressa, 

 dydynama,antherifera: quintum minimum, filiforme, sterile. 

 Antherarum per paria conniventium, corolla breviorum lo- 



culi 



