28o BignoniacecB. [Isanthera. 



Also in S. India and Burma (the type in the Himalaya and Khasia 

 Mountains). 



A remarkable plant, greatly varying in size. Clarke distinguishes a 

 van hispida, to which he refers the figure of Wight quoted above. 



7. ZSANTKERA, iW-cs. 



Small undershrub, 1. alt., fl. rather small, in paniculate 

 axillary cymes ; sep. 5, linear-lanceolate ; cor. campanulate- 

 rotate, tube very short, lobes 5, equal ; stam. 4, equal, inserted 

 at base of cor., anth. small, distinct, cells confluent, staminode 

 (posterior stam.) i, often absent ; disk annular, inconspicuous; 

 ov. I -celled, arms of placentas recurved, style short, stigma 

 capitate ; fruit (not seen) a fleshy indehiscent or 2-valved 

 capsule ; seeds numerous, compressed, reticulate. — Sp. 3 ; i 

 in Fl B. Ind. 



Z. permollis, Necs in Tratts. Li7in. Soc. xvii. 82 (1834). 

 I.florJbiinda, Gardn. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 483. Thw. Enum. 

 208. Clarke, 1. c. 192. C. P. 1670. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 372. Wight, Ic. t. 1355. 



Stem about i ft., erect, stout, unbranched, with yellowish- 

 white bark, bare below and marked with scars of 1., tomentose 

 with fulvous hair when young ; 1. alt., closely placed, 4-7 in., 

 obovate-lanceolate, tapering into petiole, shortly acuminate, 

 acute or subacute, slightly denticulate-serrate cottony-silky 

 with fulvous hair on both sides when young, becoming 

 glabrous above, petiole ^-i in.; fl. numerous, on densely 

 silky-hairy ped., cymes short, paniculate, with divaricate 

 branches, peduncle shorter than petiole, bracts linear, very 

 silky ; sep. very acute, densely silky-hairy ; cor. \-\ in. diam. 



Shady forests in the moist region 2000-4000 ft.; rather common. 

 Adam's Peak (Moon, ex Gardner). Fl. April and Sept., October; white, 

 anth. yellow. 



Also in the Nilgiri Mountains and in Burma, 



This plant has much the appearance of the species of Nei(7-ocalyx 

 (Rubiacea:;). The corolla is very nearly regular, lout the perfect stam. 

 never more than 4. 



XCVI.— BIGNONIACE.^. 



Trees, 1, opp., compound, fl. usually large, in terminal 

 racemes or panicles, bisexual, irregular ; cal. free, campanu- 

 late or spathaceous, segm. 5 or o ; cor.-tube campanulatc or 



