- 104 DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, Bignonia., . 
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nan, who sent seeds to the Botanic garden at Calcutta, where 
in seven years the trees'were about twenty feet high ; it blos- 
soms in May and June ; seed ripe in December. 
Trunk straight, covered with smooth, ash-coloured bark. 
Branches tolerably erect, but not numerous. Leaves oppo- 
site, pinnate, from six to ten inches long; in Bengal, perma- 
nent. Leaflets five or seven, rarely ternate, petioled, oblong, 
entire, villous while young, from two to four inches long. 
Racemes solitary, terminal, bearing a few opposite, long-pe- 
dicelled, large, pure white, fragrant flowers, which expand 
in the evening, and drop in the morning. Calyx a perfect 
spathe, opening on the upper side, shorter than the tube of 
the corol, deciduous with or soon after the corol. Coro sal- 
_ ver-shaped. Tube sub-cylindric. Border of five, somewhat 
_reniform, equal segments; all much and beautifully curled. 
Stamens, a fifth, small, sterile.filament, Anthers twin, Cerm 
conical, its base surrounded with a glandular ring, two-cell- 
ed, in each many ovula attached to a longitudinal, elevated 
receptacle, which runs along the middle of the partition. 
_ Style shorter than the tube of the corol. Stigma of two, thin, 
oblong lobes. Si/ique linear, pendulous, about twelve or fif- 
teen inches long, by one anda half in circumference, various- 
ly bent, obtuse-pointed, colour brown and scabrous, with still 
paler specks ; a transverse section forms a very exact ellipsis, 
two-celled, Partition thick and spongy, contrary to the 
. valves, and attached to the middle of them. Seeds numerous, 
inged at both ends, disposed in two imbricate rows in each _ 
call, and attached to the middle of the opposite sides of the — 
thick spongy partition, where it joins the valves, being the — eo 
part most remote from its sutures. Perisperm none. Embryo 
straight, Cotyledons two-lobed ; lobes nearly orbicular. Ra- 
dicle oval, immediately within the umbilicus. — 
5.-B. SE Sg R. 
Arboreous. Leaves pulley ; lefess Sg pairs, ak ser- 
rulate. Panicles terminal, thin, first divisions bmghante: Co- 
rol woolly, Silique cylindric. 
