110 DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, - Bignonia, 
11. B. indica, Willd, iii. 306. 
Arboreous. Leaves supra-decompound. Flowers pentan- 
drous. Siliques long, linear, compressed. 
Bignonia pentandra, Lourier. Cochin Ch. 460, 
Palega pajoneli, Rheed. Mal. i. t. 43 and 44. 
Shyonaka, and Mundooka-purna, two of its Sanscrit 
names. 
Hind, Shyona. 
Tam, Vanga-marum. ‘ 
Teling. Pampena. 
Is one of the tallest trees on the coast, grows up aitholigtt 
the mountains chiefly. Flowering time the beginning of the 
wet season. Seed ripens in January and February. 
Trunk very straight, and very high, butthin in proportion. _ 
Bark smooth. Branches opposite, decussate. Leaves opposite, 
decussate, supra-decompound ; from four, to six feet long. 
Leaflets obliquely-cordate, pointed, smooth, from three to 
six inches long, and from two to four broad, Peduncles and 
pedicels round, scabrous, Racemes terminal, secund, erect, 
vigid; lower two-thirds naked, scabrous, and somewhat quad- 
rangular; upper third part imbricated on one side, with 
‘nid large, fleshy, dark red flowers. Bractes, scarcely 
any. Calyx campanulate, entire, lasting. Coro/ campanu- 
late. Border two-lipped ; upper two-cleft, under three- 
cleft; segments wrinkled nearly. Filaments five, the exte- 
rior pair longest, bending in under the upper lip of the 
_ eorol; at the base very woolly. Anthers five pairs, singly 
_ oblong, bursting on the under side. Nectary, a large, fleshy, 
somewhat pentagonal body surrounding the base of the germ. 
Germ oblong. Stylethe length of the stamens, hollow its whole 
length ; mouth fanisel-cheped, opening between the two 
membranaceous, orbicular lobes of the stigma, Silique very 
large, retrofracted, transversely compressed, somewhat curv- 
ed, with the convexity upwards. Seeds numerous, mem- 
branaceous, surrounded with a large, ope! ee 
-ceous wing. 
