110 DiDVNAMiA ANGiosPERMiA. Bigtionia. 



11. B. hidka. Willd. iii. 306. 



Arboreous. Leaves supni-deconipuuud. Flowers pentan- 

 drous. Siliques long, linear, compressed. 



Biguouia pentandra. Lourier. Cochin C/i. 460. 



Palega pajoneli. Rheed. MaJ. i. t. 43 and 44. 



Sbyouaka, and MMndooka-pMrna, two of its Sanscrit 

 names. 



Hind. Shyona. 



Tam. Vanga-marum. 



Teling. Pampena. 



Is one of the tallest trees on the coast, grows up amongst 

 the mountains chiefly. Flowering- time the beginning of the 

 wet season. Seed ripens in January and February. 



Tnink very straight, and very high, butthin in proportion. 

 JSar A; 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, 

 rigid, lower two-thirds naked, scabrous, and somcAvhat quad- 

 rangular ; upper third part imbricated on one side, with 

 very large, flesby, dark red flowers. Bractes, scarcely 

 any. Calyx campanulate, entire, lasting. Corol 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 

 corol; 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. Style thelenglh of the stamens, hollow its whole 

 length ; mouth funnel-shaped, opening between the two 

 membranaceous, orbicular lobes of the stigma. Siliqne very 

 large, retrofracted, transversely compressed, some'vliat curv- 

 ed, with the convexity upwards. Seeds numerous, mem- 

 branaceous, surrounded with a large, delicate membrana- 

 ceous wing. 



