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white, with alternate notches on the sides for the seeds to lodcre 

 in. 



Bignonia quadrilocularis, Eoxb. Fl. Ind., iii., p. 107, and Eox. Cor., 

 t. 2, is described by Eoxbnrgh as a large tree, native of the Circar 

 Mountains, with a straight trunk of considerable height, having a 

 grey bark with a few scabrous spots. The branches are numerous, 

 spreading and forming a large circular head. Leaves about the 

 extremities of the branchlets, generally 3-fold, unequally pinnate, 

 from 12 to 24 inches long. Leaflets from 4 to 5 pairs, opposite, 

 oblong, serrate, acute, smooth. Stipules none. Panicles terminal, 

 erect, large, dense, many-flowered, very downy. Bractes, scarcely any. 

 The flowers, which appear during the beginning of the hot season, 

 are large, rose-coloured and delightfully fragrant. The distinctive 

 peculiarities of the construction of the flower are detailed by 

 Eoxburgh in the works quoted. 



Bignonia xylocarpa, Eoxb., Fl. Ind., iii., p. 108. Syn. Stereosioer- 

 mum I'ylocarimm, AYight (Wight Ic, t. 1335-6 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv., t. 

 70). A tall, elegant tree, native of the forests of Western India 

 from Khandesh to Malabar. It was first observed Ijy Dr. Andrew 

 Berry in Sunda and was introduced by him into the Eoyal Botanic 

 Garden at Calcutta, when in 6 years the young trees were about 

 20 to 25 feet high. They blossom in March, April, May and June, 

 and the seed takes about one year to to ripen. The trunk is very 

 straight ; bark ash-coloured, rather spongy and considerably 

 cracked. Branches few and spreading but little. Leaves opposite, 

 bi- and tri-pinnate, from 1 to 4 feet long ; in Bengal they are 

 deciduous in the cool months of December and January and appear 

 with the flowers in April and May. Leaflets short-petioled, from 

 semi-cordate to obliquely oblong, entire, pointed, hard and void of 

 pubescense, from 2 to 5 inches long. Petioles common and partial, 

 channelled and scabrous, with numerous elevated grey specks. 

 Panicles terminal, ramifications thereof opposite or tern, 2, 3 or 

 more times dichotomous, wuth a single flower in the forks, slightly 

 pubescent. Bractes ovate-oblong, solitary on the outside of the 

 divisions only. Flowers large, wdiite with a tinge of yellow and 

 delightfully fragrant. The analysis of the flower is minutely 

 described hj Eoxburgh. 



The natives, 1)y a rough process of the same nature as that by 

 which tar is obtained from pine wood, extract from the wood of 



