102. BIGNONIACEM. [5. Stereospermum. 



6. T. jasminoides, Lindl. Syn. Pandorea jasminoides, K. Schuman. 



A scandent shrub with dark green pinnate leaves and 5-7 ovate shining entire 

 leaflets. Flowers large rosy- white with dark purple centre, corymbose. Corolla 

 tubular-campanulate with broad mouth. 



A beautiful plant almost constantly in blossom. Native of New Holland. 



Cooke saj'S that it has pale bluish flowers ! 



7. T. australis, R. Br. Syn. Pandorea anstralis, Spach. 



A large woody climber with pinnate glabrous leaves with 7-9 elliptic sub-entire 

 leaflets and axillary panicles of heavily scented tawny yellow flowers more or less 

 spotted with purple. Capsule oblong. 



Native of Australia. 



5. STEREOSPERMUM, Cham. 



Trees with odd-pinnate leaves, opposite or clustered (and apparently 

 spiral) at the ends of the branches, leaflets entire or toothed. 

 Flowers mod. -sized in terminal ample lax panicles Avith opposite 

 decussate branches. Calyx campanulate 2-5-lobed or -toothed. 

 Corolla curved tubular-campanvilate 2-lipped with very short 

 narrowly- tubular base, lobes sub -equal, imbricate in bvid ; often 

 crisped or toothed. Disc sub-cupular. Stamens included didy- 

 namous, with diverging- or divaricate anther-cells. Ovary linear- 

 oblong Avith many ovules 2- seriate in each cell. Capsule terete or 

 4-angled elongate, often spiral, with a corky cylindrical sejitum in 

 the excavations of which lie the nuclei of the seeds which have 

 somewhat thick membranous wings separated by a groove. Embryo 

 folded. 



A. Corolla woolly at base of stamens -. — 



Leaves and panicles glabrous or nearly so. Lflts. elliptic, 

 suddenly caudate. Capsule slender 4-angled or -winged . 1. tetragonum. 



B. Corolla not woolly at base of filaments, anterior surface within 



villous: — 



Lflts. narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate-oblong. Panicle pubes- 

 cent not very viscous. Pod 'S" diam 2. anguitifolium. 



Lflts. broadly elliptic or oblong. Panicle very viscous. Pod 

 over '6" diam 3. suaveolens. 



Lflts. as in tetragona but tomentose when young, mature 

 pubescent. Panicle hirsute, not viscous. Pod.? . . . i. chelouoides. 



1. S. tetragonum, DC. Syn. S. chelonoides, F.B.I. ; non Bignonia 

 chelonoides, L. f. ; Parari, TU. ; Patuli, Chui-patuli, Kogari- 

 patuli. Or. 



A large tree with leaves usually clustered at the ends of the 

 branchlets 12-18" long with 7-11 glabrous elliptic caudate leaflets 

 3"5-5" long with slender petiolules •'^-"" long. Flowers yellow and 

 rose-coloux-ed in large glabrous or puberulous panicles with caducous 

 linear bracts. Calyx glabrous •2--25", somewdiat irregularly toothed 

 or lobed, not apiculate in bud. Corolla -l-^" long with glabrous or 

 thinly hairy tube outside, anterior surface Avithin more or less 

 villous and woolly round the base of the stamens, iipper lobes 

 glabrous or ciliate. Pod long slender 12-20" long, Avinged or sub- 

 alate in the northern forms {tetragonum proper) and often •4--45" 

 diam. (but Avith core only •2-'25" diam.) or Avith 4 raised lines and "3" 



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