Bignonia. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, 105 
Pata the Sanscrit name. See Asiatic Res. 291. 
- Beng. Parul. 
Hind. Paral. 
B, padri. Kon, Mss, and B. H. 
A middle sized tree, a native of Bengal, and of the south- 
ern parts of the Coromandel coast. Flowering time the hot — 
season, . 
Trunk tolerably erect, though not straight. Bark ash-co- 
loured, and somewhat scabrous. Leaves opposite, pinnate, 
with an odd one from twelve to twenty-four inches long. 
Leaflets opposite, from two to four pairs, oval, with long, 
bluntish, narrow points, slightly serrate, having both sides 
downy while young, and when full grown not downy and 
feeling harsh; the exterior pair and’odd one about six inches . 
long, by three or four broad ; the inferior pair, or pairs, small- 
er. Petioles swelled at the base, roundish, when old scab- 
ous, Panicles terminal, composed of a few spreading branch- 
lets; the first and second pairs thereof opposite, the superior 
dichotomous, with a solitary, pedicelled flower in the forks ; 
all are downy, and somewhat viscid, Flowers large, of a dark, 
dull, crimson colour, exquisitely fragrant. Calyx campanu- 
late, Border four-cleft; upper divisions with two minute 
points, outside a little villous. Corel; throat ample, wool- | 
ly, convex above, flat and plaited beneath. Border, the up- 
per divisions shorter, erect ; the three inferior ones longer and 
projecting, with the margins of all much curled. Filaments 
four, fertile, and between them a small sterile one, Anthers 
twin. Germ oblong, clavated on a glandular receptacle. 
— iweaobedi” 
2G; B. preiiand. wind. iii. 302. : 
? ~ Shrubby, scandent, Leaves pinnate ; leaflets ovate, ser- 
Tate, Panicles terminal, Sp gatae i —— of the — 
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