102. BIGNONIACE.^. [10. Parmentieba. 



The ground of an early morning is often covered with the large white fallen 

 corollas of this tree, which, like so many other species of the genus, is night-flower- 

 ing. Sprague {loc. cit.) gives good reasons (especially the corky seed-wing) for 

 supposing the tree to be disseminated by ocean currents, which makes it the more 

 probable that it will be found in the Orissa swamp forests. 



8. SPATHODEA, Beauv. 



Closely allied to Dolichandrone aud also has a large spathaceous 

 calyx but differs in the short tubular portion of the corolla, which is 

 very broadly campanulate and anteriorly ventricose above and (in 

 our species at least) brilliantly coloured, and in the absence of the 

 false septum from the capsule. 



1. S. campanulata, Beauv. 



A large tree with very pale bark, young parts and inflorescence more or less 

 velutinous, leaves pinnate with about 9 lanceolate leaflets. A beautiful tree in 

 flower, "deciduous for a few weeks in the hot season, after which it breaks into 

 leaf and is subsequently covered for a long period or two long periods by a gorgeous 

 display of large, well-shaiDed, orange-crimson flowers" (Firminger). Spathaceous 

 calyx recurved. Corolla-tube above the short narrow portion very broad, almost 

 ribbed, limb 3-3"5" diam. of 5 sub-equal ovate-oblong lobes. 



Grows well in Chota Nagpur. There is a good specimen at Sakchi in Singbhum. 

 Native of Africa. Fl. h.s. and (fide Firminger) also sometimes Sept.-Oct. 



9. JACARANDA, Juss. 



Large trees with generally twice imparipinnate leaves with very 

 numerous more or less trapezoid or rhombic leaflets. Flowers large 

 showy in long loose terminal panicles. Calyx small. Corolla tubular- 

 campanidate with a moderately long narrow basal tube. Stamens 

 included, anthers glabrous with divaricate cells, the staminode very 

 long and clavate at the end with a short 2-lobed hairy tip. Capsule 

 ellipsoid or almost orbicular, woody, compressed at right angles to 

 the septum, loculicidal, each valve carrying with it half the septum. 



1. J. raimosifolia, D. Don. 



A very beautiful tree with foliage resembling that of the Albizzias or Acacias, 

 except that the leaves are opposite. It bears panicles of beautiful blue flowers. 



Native of Brazil and of somewhat recent introduction, but now becoming common 

 in gardens. 



10. PARMENTIERA, DC. 



Shrubs or small trees with opposite 3-foliolate leaves and flowers 

 clustered on tubercles on the old wood. Calyx spathaceous. Corolla 

 sub-regular, tvibular-campanulate. Stamens reaching to the throat 

 of corolla, didynamous with a staminodial fifth. Disc obscure. 

 Ovary 1 -celled or at the base 2-celled. Fruit cylindrical, fleshy, 

 indehiscent. 



1. P. cereifera, Seem. The Candle Tree. 



A small pretty tree with 3-foliolate leaves with somewhat winged petiole and 

 elliptic leaflets acute each end. FloAvers pretty, white or slightly pink. Fruit like 

 drooping clusters of yellow candles hanging from all the branches. 



Often grown in gardens. Native of Panama. Fr. h.s. 



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