170 BIGNONIACEM. [ Oroxyt.tjm. 



usually in many rows, anatropous. Fruit a loculicidally or pepti- 

 cidally 2-valved capsule, usually elongated ; septum enlarging in 

 fruit, deciduous with the placentas. Seeds compressed, discoid, rarely 

 subtngonous, usually prominently winged, exalbuminoas. — Species 

 about 550, mostly tropical and chiefly in S. America; a few are 

 extratropical, including two Himalayan herbaceous species of 

 Amp Income. 



Perfect stamens 5 .... 1. Oeoxtlum. 



Perfect stamens 4:— 



Leaves simple 2. Tecomella. 



Leaves pinnate:— 



Calyx spatbaceous .... 3. Dolichandrone. 



Calyx campanulate . . 4. Stereospermum. 



1. OROXYLUM' Vert. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 377. 



A glabrous tree. Leaves opposite, large, 2-3-pinnate ; leaflets ovate, 

 entire. Flowers in long terminal racemes. Calyx large, cam- 

 panulate, coriaceous, truncate or obscurely toothed, persistent. 

 Corolla large, campanulate, white or purplish ; lobes 5, subequal, 

 round, crisped and. toothed. Stamens 5, perfect, exserted, four of 

 them equal, the fifth shorter ; filaments straight ; anthers glabrous, 

 2-celled ; cells oblong, parallel. Disk wide. Fruit a large linear 2- 

 valved capsule, compressed parallel to the septum, opening septi- 

 fragally. Seeds many, thinly discoid ; wing bioad, hyaline. — 

 A single species, found in India, Ceylon, Burma, Malava, China and 

 Cochin-China. 



O. indicum, Vent. Bee. Gen. Nov. 8; F. B. I. iv, 378 ; Watt E. D. ; Kanji- 

 lal For. Fl. 254 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 510 ; Collett Fl. Siml. 368, Prain 

 Beng. PL 787 ; Coolte Fl. Bomb, ii, 327 ; Brandis Ind. Trees 496. Bignonia 

 indica, Linn.; Roxb. Fl. Inn. m, jjq ; Royle III. 295. Calosanthes indica, 

 Blume ; Brandis For. Fl. 347. Vern. TJllu, arlu, yharkath, iiharri, sanna 

 (Oudh). 



A small deciduous soft-wooded tree, up to 40 ft. high, branching near the 

 top ; bark light-brown, usually covered with corky lenticels. Leaves very 

 large, sometimes attaining 5 ft. in length ; rhachis stout, cylindric j 

 leaflets 2-4 pairs, 2^-5 in. long, ovate or elliptic, acuminate, entire, 

 glabrous, base rounded or cordate, petiolules j-f in. long. Floivers many, 

 in large erect racemes 1-2 ft. long or more, foetid, pedicels ^-l£ in. long. 

 Calyx about 1 in. long, oblong-campanulate, obscurely toothed, 

 coriaceous, glabrous. Corolla 2-3 in. long, fleshy, tube green, limb lurid- 

 purple, margins crisped. Filaments woolly at the base. Capsule 1-3 

 ft. by 2-3^ in. wide, flat and straight. Seeds many, 2-3 in. long, margins 

 brcadly winged except at the base. 



