378 cvn. BIGNONIACE^I. (C. B. Clarke.) [Oroxylum. 



O. indicum, Vent. Dec. Gen. Nov. 8; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 237. 

 Bignonia indica, Linn. Sp. PI. 871 ; Lamk. Diet. i. 423 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. 

 iii. 110; Wall. Cat. 6514; Bedd. For. Man. 148. B. pentandra, Lour. Fl. 

 Cochinch. 379. Spathodea indica, Pers. Syn. ii. 173. Calosanthes indica, 

 Blume Bijd. 760; DC. Prodr. ix. 177; Wight Ic. t. 1337; Dalz. $ Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 161 ; Bureau Monogr. Sign. t. 9 ; Brand. For. Fl. 347.R/ieede 

 Hort. Mai. i. t. 43. 



Throughout INDIA, alt. 0-3000 ft., from the Himalaya to Ceylon and Malacca, com- 

 mon ; not in the western drier area, but in the Terai west to the Chenab (Brandis). 

 DISTRIB. Malaya, Cochin China, Ava. 



Attains 25-40 ft. (Roxburgh says "one of the tallest trees on the Coromandel 

 coast," concerning which there must be some mistake) ; bark thick. Leaves 2-4 ft. 

 diam., ternately bipinnate; leaflets 5 by 3-4 in., acuminate ; petiolule short. Peduncle 

 1 foot, thick ; raceme 10 in. ; pedicels -1 in. Calyx 1 by f in., fleshy. Corolla, 

 2| in., fleshy ; mouth 2-3^ in. diam. Stamens shortly exsert ; base of filaments 

 woolly ; fifth filament rather shorter than the other 4 ; anther-cells divergent below ; 

 connective with a short mucro. Disc large, fleshy. Style 2| in. ; stigma ^ in. wide, 

 of 2 semicircular plates. Capsule 1-3 ft. by 2-3^ in., hardly ^ in. thick, margins 

 somewhat incurved ; valves woody ; septum flat. Seeds including the wing attaining 

 3 by If in. (usually smaller"), winged all round except at the base ; those attached on 

 opposite margins of the septum scarcely overlapping. 



IV. TEC01VIA, Juss. 



Shrubs or small trees, erect or scandent. Leaves usually opposite, in 

 the 1 Indian species simple, in others compound. Racemes or panicles 

 terminal. Calyx tubular-campanulate, subequally 5-toothed. Corolla 

 tubular. vent ricose, orange or red ; lobes 5, round, subequal. Capsule linear 

 or narrow, loculicidally 2-valved, somewhat compressed at right angles to 

 the septum. Seeds thinly discoid ; wing hyaline, broad. Species 24, in the 

 tropics of the whole world, mostly American. 



T. undulata, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 223 ; leaves narrowly oblong 

 entire, undulate, DC. Prodr. ix. 222 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. "Fl. 161 ; 

 Brand. For. Fl. 352; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 80. T. ? glauca, DC. I. c. 223. 

 Bignonia undulata, Smith Exot. Bot. i. 35, t. 19 ; Koxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 101 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 6498. B. glauca, Dene, in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 137, t. 142. 

 Tecomella undulata, Seem, in Seem. Journ. Bot. i. 18. 



WESTEBN INDIA, alt. 0-3000 ft. ; Scinde, Punjab, Guzerat, Rajputana, extending 

 eastwards to the Jumna. DISTKIB. Beloochistau, Arabia. 



A shrub or small tree ; innovations stellately grey-puberulous, otherwise glabrate. 

 Leaves 6 by 1 in., obtuse; petiole fin. Corymbs few-fld., mostly on shortened 

 lateral branches pedicels |-| in. Calyx i in.; lobes hardly in., broad, obtuse. 

 Corolla 1^ in., orange. Stamens scarcely exsert, glabrous ; anther-cells distinct, 

 pendulous, narrowly oblong. Disc cup-shaped. Stiff ma spathulate, sub-2-lobed. 

 Capsule 8 by in., slightly curved ; valves tough, thin. Seeds (including the wing) 

 1 by J in., wing very narrow round the apex of the seed, O'at its base. 



Y. DOLICHANDRONE, Seem. 



Trees, glabrous or tomentose. Leaves opposite, 1-pinnate. Racemes or 

 panicles terminal. Calyx in aestivation closed, at flower-time cleft to the base 

 on one side, spathaceous. Corolla-tube long or short ; lobes 5, subequal, 

 round, crisped cremate or incised. Capsule elongate, terete or somewhat 

 compressed, loculicidally 2-valved, sub-4-celled. Seeds thinly discoid, on 



