B'lgnonia. didynamia ANGiosPERiMiA. Ill 



The wood of this tree is said to be soft and spongy, so much 

 as to rentier it unfit for use ; at least I have never been able to 

 discover any that it is put to. 



12. B. siiberosa. R. 



Arboreous. Bark deeply cracked, and spongy. Leaves 

 supra-decompound ; leajlets sub-cordate, entire. Panicles 

 terminal. Anthers calcarate. Silique linear, thin. 



Millingtonia hortensis. Willd. iii. .'382. 



The native country of this beautiful tree, I have not been 

 able to discover ; all I can learn is, that some plants or seeds 

 were brought from the Rajah of Tanj ore's garden to Madras, 

 from thence one plant was procured for the Company's Bo- 

 tanic garden at Calcutta, about fifteen years ago. It is now, 

 when twelve years old, an elegant tree of about fifty feet in 

 height. Is in blossom about the close of the rains and the 

 seed ripens in March. 



Trunk straight. Bark deeply cracked in various direc- 

 tions, of a soft, spongy nature. The wood is white, firm, 

 and close-grained, and promises to be valuable. Leaves op- 

 posite, supra-decompound, about two feet long. Leaflets 

 sub-cordate, with long- taper obtuse points ; marrfins entire, 

 of a deep green colour, smooth on both sides, from one to 

 three inches long- and broad. Petioles and petiolets a little 

 chanelled. Panicles terminal, solitary, cross-armed, large, 

 broad-ovate. lianiijicatiotis horizonta], the first trichotomous, 

 then dichotomous, with generally a single flower in the fork. 

 Bractes minute. Flowers numerous, large, pure white, 

 like many of the other species of this charming- family de- 

 lightfully fragrant. Calyx very small, slightly five-parted; 

 divisions nearly equal. Carol infundibuliform. Tube from 

 two to three inches long, slender and cylindric. Border 

 four- parted; the upper division broader, and nearly half 

 two-cleft. Filaments only four. Anthers calcarate. Germ 

 oblong. Style as long as the corol. Stigma bilabiate. 

 Silique slender, linear, thin, pointed, pretty smooth, two- 



