274 OESNERACEj;. \Leptoltta. 



ORDER LXXVI. GESNEEACE^}. 



An Order scarcely worth mentioning, as it contains hut one shrubby plant, the 

 rest being mostly handsome-flowered, herbaceous plants of the damp zones. 



1. LEPTOBCEA, Bth. 



1. L. multiflora, Bth. ; Gamble 58. Championia mullijlora, C. B^ 

 Clarke. Vern. Tungrangmook, Lepcha. 



A small shrub. Bark grey, peeling 1 off in papery lakes. Wood 

 yellowish white, hard, close and even-grained. Pores very small but 

 distinct, in short radial lines. Annual rings marked by closer pores. 

 Medullary rays extremely fine. 



Hills of N. E. Himalaya up to 3,000 feet. 

 E 3314. raiikabari, Darjeeling, 2,000 feet. 



ORDER LXXVII. BIGNONIACEJE. 



Contains 8 genera of Indian trees, belonging to 2 tribes, viz., 



Tribe I. Bignoniero Mttlingtonia and Qroxylum. 



II. Tecoineae Tecoma, Dolichandrone, He- 



terophragma, Stereosperm it in, 

 and Pajanclia. 



Mayodendron igneum, Kurz Prel. Report of Pegu, Appendix D ; Burma For. PI. 

 ii. 233, is a handsome tree with scarlet flowers found in the Martaban Hills up to 

 8,000 feet 



To this family belong Amphicome arguta, Royle, a herb with largi- perennial root- 

 stoek, round on rocks in the North-West Himalaya; the Catalpa, C. bignonioidtt, an 

 Amerienn tree with a greyish, handsomely-marked, very durable wood, often planted in 

 Europe and now largely cultivated in America, and said to be good for sleepers; and 

 numerous other large American trees with fine timber. 



With few exceptions, this Order is characterised by irregular concen- 

 tric bauds of soft texture. The pores are moderate-sized and frequently 

 filled with resin, and the medullary rays line, the distance between the 

 rays being generally equal to the transverse diameter of the pores. 



1. MILLINGTONIA, Linn. fil. 



1. M. hortensis, Linn. ; Beddome t. 219 ; Brandis 347; Kurz ii 

 />/// noni'Jt xubertHHiy Koxb. I'M. Ind. iii. 111. The Indian Cork Tree, Yern. 

 jVi'wi* c/iambeli, ttkiix- nim, Hind.; At/kai/tf., l>unn.; Kat. malli, Tain. 



A large tree. Wood soft, yellowish white. Tores small, numerous. 

 Medullary rays line, the distance between the rays somewhat larger than 

 the transverse diameter of the pores. The sju'eimen from the Sahuranpm 

 o-;ird'iis ^lirws distinct annual rings marked by more numerous and 

 larger pores in the spring wood. 



Cultivate.! in a\vmu-s H nd ^.inlen> in most parts of India, believed to he ind 

 m IJunn.i and the Malay Ar.-liip.-l:ij,'i). Kurzf-ay-s it is rather raiv in the tiopieal \( 

 Mailabaii down t<> Tena -serini 



