2. SiEEEOBPBBiiUM.] 77. BIGNONIACE^S. 



Lflts. broadly-elliptic or oblong shortly suddenly acuminate 3-7'' by 

 2i-3 7 , in young plants harsh and spinous-serrate (in quite young seedlings 

 simple, as they also are in Oroxylum and numerous other pinnate-leaved 

 plants). Venation beneath strong. Petiolule ffe-i 7 . Calyx ■}-$'' glan- 

 dular-hairy, lobes 3-5 short broad. Corolla yellow within, petals crisped- 

 crenate. 



2. S, chelonoides, D.G. 



A large tree glabrous except tlie flowers, with odd-pinnate 

 leaves with 5-9 lflts., and pale rose-cold, and yellow or 

 light-purple flowers f-1" long in very lax glabrous panicles. 

 Pod 12-20" by £-|", somewhat angled. 



Bare. Valleys in Saranda. ■ Parasnath?' Anders. Fls. April-May. Fr. 

 Dec. 



Lflts. elliptic caudate-acuminate. Petiolules |«f ¥ . Calyx i" with I 

 short teeth. One of the most difficult woods to split. 



Millingtoniahortensia, L„ sometimes called the Indian Cork trac, 

 is a tall very handsome tree with 2-3-pinnate leaves and pendent panicles 

 of fragrant white flowers with long corolla-tubes. The tree is shallow 

 rooted and apt to be blown down. Fls. No v. -Dec. 



4* Tecoma, Juss. 

 1. T . undulata, 0. Don. 



A shrub or small tree with narrowly oblong nndulate 

 leaves and orange red flowers in terminal corymbose racemes. 



Palamau, wild ? Fls. April. Specimens of this shrub were collected by 

 Dr. J . P. Hendley on waste land in Palamau, and had everv appearance of 

 being indigenous or naturalized. 



Young shoots grey puberulous. L. about 6 7 by H" short-petioled. 

 Calyx tubular-campanulate, 5-toothed. Corolla 1£" tubular-ventricose 

 with 5 rounded sub-equal lobes. Capsule 8 7 by J'\ 



N.B.— The cultivated species of Tecoma have compound leaves. 



ram. 78. PEDALIACEjE. 



Herbs or under shrubs with opposite leaves, or the 

 upper alternate, often deeply lobed or pinnatifid. Flowers 

 irregular axillary ebracteate or bracts very small. Corolla 

 tubular ventricose, lobes imbricate. Stamens 4 didynaiaous. 



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