Bignonia, DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, 103 
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2. B. comosa. 
Tender parts very downy. Leave’ simple, opposite, cor- 
date, entire. Corymbs terminal, short, leafly. | Calyces five- 
cleft, Corol, with a long, slender tube, and bilabiate border. 
A native of the Moluccas. 
3. B. spathacea, Corom. pl. 2. N. 144, 
Arboreous, Leaves opposite, pinnate ; leaflets, from three 
to seven pairs, with an odd one, roundish. Racemes termi- 
nal. Calyx spathaceous, Corol infundibuliform, oblique, 
long, slender, much curved. 
B. faleata. Kon. Mss, in, B. H. 
Teling. Woody. — ~~ 
A small thin tree, a native hol aac of she focsiae aan: 
coast, flowers during the hot season, 
Trunk very irregular, both in size and shape, the branches 
also. Bark light ash-colour; young shoots covered with 
whitish down. Leaves opposite and alternate, pinnate, with an 
odd one about six inches long. Leaflets opposite, from two to 
three pairs, nearly orbicular, entire, downy ; from one to two 
inches Jong, and about as much broad, Kacemes terminal, _ 
erect, as long as the leaves, few-flowered. Flowers white, 
pretty large. Calyx, a spathe, two-thirds open on the convex. : 
side. Corol; tube longer than the calyx, cylindric ; border, 
flat divisions equal, oblong. Nectary, a dark purple ring, 2 
surrounding the base of the germ. Stamens, there is a fifth 
sterile filament. .Anihers oval. Stigma two-lobed. Silique 
ieaieiebeat twelve inches long, pendulous, twisted in. vari- 
ous forms, — 
4. B. erispa. Buch. poh 
Arboreous. Leaves pinnate ; leaflets five or seven, oblonga, 
entire, Calyx spathaceous. Corol hy pocrateriform, with seg- 
ments of the border sub-equal, and much curled. age Bie 
near ; 3 partition contrary. + Kiet 2 
<A native of Mysore where it was foun by Aes. Bucha- 
