282 BignoniaceCB. \polichandrone. 



numerous, on very stout glabrous spreading ped. 2^-3 in., 

 long and articulated at base, arranged in very large erect 

 racemes 1-2 ft. or more long, peduncle very stout, branch- 

 like, bracts fused with ped.; cal. if in., oblong-campanulate, 

 glabrous; cor. -tube 2\ in., mouth about \\ in. diam., limb 

 about 4 in., lobes much crumpled in bud, thickly covered on 

 both sides with papillose hairs ; fil. cottony at base ; ov. 

 oblong, somewhat compressed, glabrous ; capsule 2-2|- ft. or 

 even more by 3-2-4 in. wide, tapering to both ends, flat, acute, 

 valves semi-woody, thin ; seeds very numerous, oval, wing 

 extending all round except at base, 2i in. diam. 



Moist low country below 2000 ft.; common. Fl. July, August; dull 

 pale pinkish-yellow, reddish-purple outside. 



Throughout India, Burma, Malaya, and Cochin China. 



A weedy little tree, very conspicuous owing to its enormous capsules 

 often nearly 3 ft. long. The coarse flowers have a somewhat fetid odour. 

 A drawing only of Hermann's, no specimen. 



The bark is much used as an astringent tonic. 



Milliiigtonia horiensis, L. f., the Indian Cork Tree, is commonly 

 planted for the sake of its white fragrant blossoms. It is common in 

 Tropical gardens, and is said to have been found wild in Burma. I have 

 never seen fruit in Ceylon. 



Spathodea campanidata, Beauv., native of Tropical Africa, has been 

 much planted as an ornamental quick-growing tree. I have known it to 

 fruit once only, in April, 1892, in Kandy. 



2. DOIiICKANDRONX:, Seem. 

 Tree, 1. opp., pinnate, fl. very large, few, in terminal 

 corymbs, cal. large, cleft down one side to the base (spath- 

 aceous), caducous ; cor.-tube very long, inflated in upper part, 

 lobes 5, nearly equal, crisped at margin ; stam. 4, didynamous, 

 anth. very large, disk annular, cushion-like ; ov. 2-celled, 

 ovules very numerous, stigma clavatc ; capsule large, cylin- 

 drical-compressed, linear, curved, spuriousl}' 4-celled, valves 

 thin ; seeds very numerous, much compressed, prolonged at 

 each end into a thick flat, blunt truncate corky wing. — Sp. 12; 

 6 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Z>. Rheedil, Seem. Jotirti. Boi. viii. 3S0 (1870). Diya-dangra, S. 

 Vilpadri, 7. 



Bi/^fiojiia spa/hacea, L. f. Suppl. PI. 283. Spathodea /ofii^i/lora, Vent., 

 Moon Cat. 45. .S". Rlicedii., Wall., Thw. Enum. 206. C. P. 3170. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv. 379. Wight, Ic. t. 1339. 



A tree about 30 ft. high, branchlets stout, marked with 

 prominent leaf-scars, lenticellate, young shoots glabrous ; 1. 

 imparipinnate, rachis 8-12 in., swollen at base and joints, 



