Stereospermufn.'] BignOfliaceCB. 28 



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cylindrical, channelled above, glabrous, Ifts. 7 or 9 (3 or 4 

 pair and terminal one), articulated, distant, shortly stalked, 

 4-6 in., ovate-lanceolate, usually rounded, often unequal- 

 sided at base, acuminate-caudate, entire, glabrous and shining, 

 veins prominent beneath, often purple ; fl. 3 or 4 together on 

 short, stout, erect ped. ; cal. over 2 in., completely closed and 

 with a curved beak in bud, afterwards splitting to base, de- 

 ciduous by a circular fission at base ; cor.-tube 6 in., cylin- 

 drical, upper part funnel-shaped, limb 2^-3 in. diam., lobes 

 rounded, much crisped and crenate on margin ; capsule about 

 18 in., ovoid on section, bluntly pointed, smooth, purplish- 

 brown ; seeds overlapping in many rows, f in., flat, rec- 

 tangular, white. 



Moist low country, chiefly near the coast, and especially in mangrove 

 swamps. Kalutara; Panadure; Galle. Fl. May, July; white. 



Also in the Malabar Coast, Andaman Is., and Malaya. 



Ceylon specimens from Kcenig are in Herb. Mus. Brit. These are 

 referred by Seemann (1. c. 382) to D. crispa, Seem., a closely allied 

 species ; they are the type for Bignonia spathacea, L. f The bruised 

 leaves have an aromatic but disagreeable odour. The wood is soft, light,, 

 and white, and used for floats, models, &c. 



3. STXmEOSPERMUnZ, Cham. 



Large tree, 1. pinnate, fl. rather small, in terminal panicles;, 

 cal. narrowly campanulate, segm. 5, short, 2 often connate ; 

 cor.-tube tubular-campanulate, curved, lobes 5, nearly equal,, 

 crisped at margin, two upper partially connate; stam. 4, 

 nearly equal, anth. not connate, cells divaricate, staminode 

 (barren 5th stam.) very short; disk thick, annular, stigma 

 thickened, 2-bladed ; capsule very long, linear, subqua- 

 drangular with 2 sharp edges, septum very much thickened,- 

 cylindrical ; seeds numerous in excavations of the septum,, 

 with a long wing at each end and a deep transverse furrow 

 across centre. — Sp. 10 ; 9 in Fl. B. Ind. 



S. chelonioldes, DC. Prod. ix. 210 (1845). lunu-madala, 

 Dunu-madala, S. Padri, T. 



Big7ionia saliiia. Moon Cat. 45. Thw. Enum. 206. C. P. 1959. 

 Fl. B, Ind. iv. 382. Wight, Ic. t. 1341. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 72. 



A large tree, with many spreading branches, bark thick,, 

 rough, yellowish, young parts glabrous ; 1. imparipinnate, 

 stalked, rachis 6-8 in., thickened and kneed at the base and 

 joints, channelled above, slightly lenticellate, glabrous, Iflts. 5 

 or 7 (2 or 3 pair and a terminal one), 4-6 in., on petioles 

 about I in. long, oval, rounded or acute and often unequal at 



