Order 87. Bignoniacece. 225 



yellowish, or flesh-coloured, fragrant, in large panicles, capsule 

 obscurely 4-sided, one to two feet long. Pddel, pddri. 



Ghauts and S. Konkan. Throughout moister India (H.). " Tne 

 flowers are compared by the poets to the quiver of Kama, the God of 

 Love " (Sir W. Jones). It is the fragant pdtala of Hindoo poetry. 



2. S. suaveolens (Heterophragma, s. D.). Leaves one or 

 two feet long, leaflets 5 to 9, large oval, flowers, in viscous, 

 hairy panicles, dull purple or crimson, hairy in the throat, very 

 fragrant, capsule cylindric, 1 8 inches long. Paral, Kalgori. 



I believe this tree to be common at Tungar and Sagargarh, but did 

 not see the flowers. Deccan (#.). Common in the Dandelly jungles 

 (Z).). Throughout moister India (H.). 



3. *S. xylocarpum (Bignonia, x. D.). Leaves twice pinnate, 

 petiole sharply angular, leaflets oblong, acute, large, flowers 

 -whitith, fragrant in large panicles, corolla oblique, .short-tubed, 

 pods 2 or 3 feet long, woody, linear or cylindrical. Khar sing, 

 bersingi. 



Ghauts, Konkans, Bangs, &c. (Z>.). Decoan peninsula, common 

 (#.). 



Tecoma, leaves simple, corolla lobes about equal, capsule very 

 narrow, two-valved, seeds thin, discoid, with broad wings. *T. 

 undulata, leaves narrow, oblong, flowers few together, corolla bright 

 orange, capsule 8 inches long, very narrow, curved. Loheri Rakt- 

 roera. Khandish and Guzerat, rare (D.). Sind hills (B.). " A tree 

 with drooping branches like the weeping willow : when in flower few 

 trees can. present a more noble or beautiful sight " ((?.). T. stans, a 

 tall, woody shrub, flowers yellow, streaked with red, common in 

 gardens. 



Of introduced species, Millingtonia hortensis, a native of Burma, 

 has been much planted about the roads in Poona (and probably else- 

 where). It is a grand tree, tall and straight, with large, much- 

 divided leaves, and white, fragrant flowers, with very long tubes. H. 

 describes it in its native jungles as 80 feet high, lanceolate in out- 

 line, with drooping branches. "Such a tree, a vast pillar of glossy 

 green, placed on the summit of a lofty hill, would be a beacon to all 

 the country round " (O. W. Holmes}. 



Bignonia radicans is the climbing trumpet flower of Bombay gar- 

 den-, with large bunches of long-tubed, scar let -orange flowers. 

 Other species are also cultivated. 



ORDEE 88. PEDALINE^. 



Herbs, with irregular flowers ; corolla tubular, much bulged, 

 5-lobed, obscurely 2-lipped ; stamens 4, didynamous ; capsule 

 2 to 4-celled. 



This very small order is sometimes included in Bignoniacese, but 



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