Bignonia, DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, 109 
blossom in March, April, May and June, and the seed takes 
about one year to ripen. 
Trunk very straight. Bark ask-coloured, rather spongy, 
and considerably cracked, Branches few and spreading but 
little. Leaves opposite, bi- and tri-pinnate, from one to four 
feet long ; in Bengal they are deciduous in the cool months 
of December and January, and appear with the flowers in 
April and May. Leaflets short-petioled, from semi-cordate 
to obliquely-oblong, entire, pointed, hard though void of 
pubescence, from two to five inches long, Petioles common 
and partial, channelled, and scabrous, with numerous, ele- 
vated gray specks. Panicles terminal, ramifications thereof 
opposite, or tern, two, three, or more times dichotomous, with 
a single flower in the forks, slightly pubescent, Bractes 
ovate-oblong, solitary on the outside ofthe divisions only. 
Flowers large, white, with a tinge of yellow, and delightful- 
ly fragrant. Calyx campanulate, coloured, unequally five- 
toothed, Coro/, with a short-cylindric tube, large, campanu- 
late throat, and five-parted border ; segments sub-orbicular, 
nearly equal, and much curled, Stamina as in the family, 
~with a small fifth sterile one. Germ oblong, an annular 
gland round its base, two-celled, with numerous seeds at- 
tached to two, thick, equi-distant receptacles on each side 
of the partition. Style the length of the stamina. ‘Stigma — 
of two oblong, thin lobes, Si/iques linear, variously bent, 
about two feet long; the greatest diameter one inch and a 
half, and parallel with the valves ; and the transverse one, 
one inch; of a very hard, woody texture, and extremely 
rough, with numerous, large, irregular, hard tubercles, 
Selich would render it a dangerous bludgeon, one-celled, 
two-valved. Partition contrary, sub-cylindric, spongy. 
Seeds numerous, winged, small, Perisperm none. Cotyle- 
dons thin, nearly roun d, emarginate, Radic/e short, sage 
ns to the iptelicus. . 
