106 DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Bignonia, 
&c, emitting roots from the joints; the bark cracks, and peels 
off ; otherwise it is smooth. 
Young shoots spotted with dark purple. Leaves oppo- 
site, pinnate, from six to ten inches long, Leaflets opposite, 
from three to four pairs, with an odd one, oval, deeply ser- 
rate, pointed, tolerably smooth. Petioles deeply channel- 
led, as if winged. Stipules none. Flowers terminal, forming 
pendulous, cross-armed panicles, they are large, on the outside 
ofa tawny orange colour, on the inside of a tolerably bright, 
reddish-orange, with brighter streaks. Calyx and corol as in 
the genus, Vectary, a glandular, crenulate ring surrounding 
the base of the germ. Stamens a fifth sterile filament between 
the short pair, Stigma two-parted; anterior lip recurved. 
When in flower it is very ornamental. 
7. B. chelonoides, Willd. iii, 304. 
Arboreous, Leaves pinnate; Jeaflets about four-paired, 
with an odd one, from ovate to oblong, entire, cuspidate. 
‘Panicles terminal. Corol bilabiate. Siliques pendulous, 
long, slender, sub-cylindric, with sharp edges, and various- 
ly curved. 
Padri, Rheed, Mal. vi. t. 26. 
~ Tam. Pou-padyra-marum, 
Teling. Tagada, - 
A native of the mountainous parts of the coast of Sommer 
del, where it grows to be a large tree. . Flowers during the 
hot and rainy, seasons, and the seed ripens in December and 
January. 
Trunk very straight, and of a great height and shinee 
Bark thick, scabrous, brown. Branches very numerous, 
the inferior horizontal, above gradually becoming more and 
more erect to the top. Leaves opposite, pinnate, with an odd 
one, about twelve inches long. Leaflets opposite, short- 
petioled, generally four pair, the inferior smallest, obliquely 
oval, pointed, sometimes slightly notched about the margins, __ 
when young downy, afterwards smooth, about four inches : 
