104 DiDYNAMiA ANGiosPERMi A. Bignotiia. 



nan, who sent seeds to the Botanic garden at Calcutta, where 

 in seven years the trees were about twenty feet high ; it blos- 

 soms in May and June ; seed ripe in December. 



Trunk straight, covered with smooth, ash-coloured bark. 

 Branches tolerably erect, but not numerous. leaves oppo- 

 site, pinnate, from six to ten inches long ; in Bengal, perma- 

 nent. Leaflets five or seven, rarely ternate, petioled, oblong, 

 entire, villous Avhile young, from two to four inches long. 

 Racemes solitary, terminal, bearing a few opposite, long-pe- 

 dicelled, large, pure white, fragrant flowers, which expand 

 in the evening, and drop in the morning. Calyx a perfect 

 spathe, opening on the upper side, shorter than the tube of 

 the corol, deciduous wifh or soon after the corol. Corol sal- 

 ver-shaped. Tube sub-cylindric. Border of five, somewhat 

 reniform, equal segments; all much and beautifully curled. 

 Stamens, a fifth, small, sterile filament. Anthers twin. Germ 

 conical, its base surrounded with a glandular ring', two-cell- 

 ed, in each many ovula attached to a longitudinal, elevated 

 receptacle, which runs along- the middle of the partition. 

 Sty/e shorter than the tube of the corol. Stigma of two, thin, 

 oblong lobes. Siliqne linear, pendulous, about twelve or fif- 

 teen inches long, by one and a half in circumference, various- 

 ly bent, obtuse-pointed, colour brown and scabrous, with still 

 paler specks ; a transverse section forms a very exact ellipsis, 

 two- celled. Partition thick and spongy, contrary to the 

 valves, and attached to the middle of them. Seeds numerous, 

 winged at both ends, disposed in two imbricate rows in each 

 cell, and attached to the middle of the opposite sides of the 

 thick spongy partition, where it joins the valves, being the 

 part most remote from its sutures. Perisperni none. Embryo 

 straight. Cotyledons two-lobed ; lobes nearly orbicular. Ra- 

 dicle oval, immediately within the umbilicus. 



5. B. snaveolens. R. 



Arboreous. Leaves pinnate; leaflets three pairs, oval, ser- 

 rulate. Panicles terminal, thin, first divisions brachiate. Co- 

 rol wooWy. Silique cylindric. 



