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round, crisped, crenate or incised. Stamens 4, didynamous, included ; 

 anthers glabrous, the cells oblong, more or less parallel. Disk annular, 

 cushion-like. Ovary sessile; ovules numerous, usually many-seriate; 

 style long; stigma 2-lobed. Capsule large, subterete or compressed, 

 loculicidally 2-valved, imporfectly 4-celled. Seeds tliinly discoid, with a 

 broad wing at each end. — Distbib. India, China, Ceylon, Malaya, 

 Tropical Africa, Australia ; species about 20. 



Leaflets reacliing 3,j in. long, elliptic, acnminate ; petiohiles of lateral 



leaflets ^-^ in. long ; capsule sliglitly compressed, speckled 1. B. crispa. 



Leaflets reaching 1^ in. long, suborbicular ; petii)hiles of lateral 



leaflets O-ya in- long; capsule much compressed, not speckled ... 2. JD. falcuta. 



1. Dolichandrone crispa, Seem, in Journ. Bot. v. 8(1870) p. 381. 

 A deciduous tree 35-60 it. high ; young parts velvety-pubescent. 

 Leaves opposite, pinnate, 8-12 in. long; leaflets 2-3 pairs and an odd 

 one, liJ-3g by |-1| in., elliptic, acuminate(sotnetimes, but rarely, obtuse), 

 glabrous, entire, tapering and often unequal-sided at the base ; main 

 nerves 4-6 pairs with reticulate venation between; petiolules of the 

 lateral leaflets \-^ in. long, those of the terminal leaflets much longer. 

 Flowers in 1-8-flowered corymbose racemes ; pedicels g-lg in. long. 

 Calyx |-1 in. long, puberulous when young, at length glabrous. Corolla 

 white, fragrant ; tube 1-2 in. long, ^-^ in. in diain., cylindric ; limb 

 reaching 2 in. across the mouth when expanded ; lobes rounded, crisped- 

 crenate. Capsules reaching as much as 18 in. long by | in. wide, 

 slightly compressed, arcuate, speckled, smooth ; valves woody. Seeds 

 1| by :^ in. (including the wing), subrectangular, with broad membranous 

 wings at the ends. Fl. B. 1. v. 4, p. 379 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, 

 p. 257. Bhjnonid crispa, Buch.-IIam. in lloxb. Fl. Ind. v. 3, p. 103 ; 

 Grrah. Cat. p. 125. Spathodea crispa, VV^nll. Cat. 6515; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 p. 160. — Flowers : Mar.-Oct. Vkiin. Oadmurhi. 



S. M. Oountiiy: Guikdk, liitrhle, 1123!; Beleaum districts, Rifehie, 1123!; Sut^uti 

 (Belganiii districts), Talbot ; Duddi on tlie Gatpraba river, Law ex Graham ; Kuput- 

 guda bill (Dbarwar districts), Tulhut. — DiSTiuu. India (W. Peninsula). 



2. Dolichandrone falcata, Seem, in Journ. Bot. v, 8 (1870) p. 381. 

 A deciduous tree 20-50 ft. high, the young parts pubescent or shortly 

 villous. Leaves simply pinnate, 3-6 in. long; leaflets opposite, |-1| by 

 y'fg— 1| in., suborbicular orobovate, sometimes very shortly acuminate (the 

 terminal leaflet rather larger than the lateral ones), pubescent or glabrous, 

 base cuneate or rounded, usually unequal-sided ; main nerves about 



4 pairs, conspicuous beneath ; petiolules of the lateral leaflets 0-y\f in. 

 long. Flowers in terminal lew-flow-ered racemes ; pedicels | in. long. 

 Calyx ^-| in. long, pubescent, with a short stout mucro at the apex. 

 Corolla white, 1 in. long or even more; tube very narrow (about y^^ in.) 

 at its base, gradually enlarging upwards ; lobes of the limb obovate- 

 oblong with crisped undulate margins. Capsules flat, much falcately 

 curved, 10-18 in. long by | in. wide, glabrous. Seeds 1 in. long by 



5 in. broad, rectangular, winged at the two ends. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 380 ; 

 Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 257 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 

 (1899) p. 354; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 3, p. 174. Dolichandrone 

 Lawii, Seem, in Journ. Bot. v. 8 (1870) p. 380 ; C. B. Clarke, in Hook, 

 f. Fl. B. I. V. 4, p. 380. Spathodea falcata, Wall. Cat. 6517 ; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. p. 160 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylvat. t. 71. Bignonia spathncea, Eoxb. Cor. 



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