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Perfect stamens 5 1. Oroxylum. 



Pei-fi'Ct stamens 4. 



Leaves simple 2. Tecojiella. 



Leaves pinnate. 



Capsule not winged, cjiindric or subquadranguliir. 

 . Calyx spathaceous, cleft to the base on one 



side in flower ; corolla-tube not ventricose... 3. Doliciiandrone. 

 Calyx not spathaceous ; corolla-tube f entri- 



COSP. 



Capsule with a flat or angular dissepiment. 4. Heteropiiraoma. 

 Capsule with a cjlinclric spongy dis- 

 sepiment. 



Ovules 2-seriate in each cell; seeds 

 ridged, sunk in deep pits in the 



placenta 5. Stereospermu.u. 



Ovules many-seriate in each cell ; 

 seeds flat, not ridged, not sunk in 



the placenta .. 6. Eader.maciiera. 



Capsule with double wings on the margins, oblong, 



compressed 7. Pajanelia. 



1. OROXYLUM, Yeut. 



A glabrous usually small tree. Leaves opposite, large, 2-3-piunat-e ; 

 leaflets entire, ovate. Flowers in long teru)inal racemes. Calyx large, 

 campanulate, coriaceous ; limb truncate or obscurely toothed, persistent. 

 Corolla large, campanulate, purplish or white ; lobes 5, round, crisped, 

 toothed, siibe(]ual. Stamens 5, perfect, exserted ; filaments straight, 

 4 of them subequal, the fifth one shorter ; anthers 2-ceUed, the cells 

 parallel, oblong. Disk large, cushion-like. Ovary 2-celled, subsessile, 

 conti*acted below ; ovules numerous, many-seriate ; style long ; stigma 

 of 2 large blades. Capsule very large, broadly linear, strongly com- 

 pressed parallel to the septum, 2-valved, opening septifragally. Seeds 

 many, thinly discoid, with a broad hyaline wing. — Disteib. India, 

 Ceylon, Malaya, Cochin-China, Ava ; species 1. 



1. Oroxylum indicum. Vent. Dec. Gen. JVo7'. (1808) p. 8. A small 

 tree 25-40 ft. high, branched at top; bark light-brown, soft, with green 

 juice and often with numerous corky lentieels. Leaves very large, 

 '3-5 ft. long, 2-3-pinnate with opposite pinnae; rhachis very stout, 

 cylindric ; leaflets 2-4 pairs, 2|-5 by l|-4 in., ovate or elliptic, acuminate, 

 glabrous, base rounded or sometimes cordate; petiolules of the lateral 

 leaflets |-f in. long. Flowers numerous, fetid, in large erect racemes 

 1-2 ft. long or even more ; pedicels |-l| in. long. Calyx 1 by | in., 

 leathery, oblong-campanulate, glabrous. Corolla usually lurid-purple, 

 reaching 4 in. long, fleshy ; lobes about 1| in. long with crisped mnrgins. 

 Stamens 5, slightly exserted beyond the corolla-tube, one of them a 

 little shorter thau the other 4 ; filaments cottony at the base. Cap- 

 sules 1-3 ft. by 2-3i in., straight, tapering to both ends, flat, hardlv 5 in. 

 thick, acute ; valves setni-woody. Seeds very numerous, 2.j in. long, 

 winged all round except at the base. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 378; Trim. Fl. 

 Cevl. V. 3, p. 281 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 255; Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 354; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 5, p. 495. 

 Bhjnovia indica, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 625 ; Grab. Cat. p. 125 ; Bedd. 

 For. Man. in Flor. Sylvat. p. cLwiii. Culosantlies indica^ Blume, Bijdr. 

 p. 761 ; Wight, Icon. t. 1337-38 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 161.— Flowers : 

 May-July. Vern. Tehi. 



