380 cvn. BIGXONIACE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Dolichandrone. 



Capsule 12 by | in., valves woody, speckled, smooth. Seeds \\ by - in., sub- 

 rectangular, wings membranous. The Calcutta Botanic Garden specimen in Herb. 

 Wallich has the mature leaves, petioles and corymbs softly ashy pilose. As to the 

 synonyms of older authors adduced by Seemann, several are described as hirsute plants; 

 while Bignonia spathacea, Liu a. f., is founded on Rheede Hort. Mai. vi. t. 29, which 

 Seemann himself refers to D. Rheedii. 



4. D. falcata, Seem, in Seem. Journ. Hot. viii. 381 ; grey pubescent or 

 shortly villous, leaflets 5-7 mostly obtuse, corolla white tube 1-1 in. 

 slender below, pod much compressed. Bignonia spathacea, Roxb. Cor. PI. 

 ii. 24, t. 144 (excl. capsule], and Fl. 2nd. iii. 103. B. atrovirens, Both Nov. 

 ^p. 284. Spathodea falcata, Wall. Cat. 6517; DC. Prodr.ix. 206 ; Dalz. 

 & Gibs. Bomb. FL 160 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 71 ; Brand. For. Fl. 350, partly. 

 S. atrovirens, Spreng. Syst. ii. 835. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; Mysore and Vellyengry Hills, Wight ; Belgaum, Ritchie, 

 &c. 



A tree, 20-50 ft. Leaves 3-6 in.; leaflets |-1| in., obovate or round elliptic, 

 rarely with a small obtuse point ; petiolule 0, rarely g- in. Corymbs few- (mostly 

 3-1-) fld., subsessile ; pedicels | in. Calyx J-f in., of the expanded flowers softly 

 grey-pubescent. Corolla nearly as of D. crispa, but the tube hardly -^ in. diam. 

 downwards. Anthers included, cells nearly parallel, differing much from those of D. 

 crispa ; this may be a sexual character, but is so in all the examples, as in the figure 

 of Beddome. Capsule (and seeds) nearly as in -D_ crispa, but more compressed and 

 usually more curved. 



5. ID. Xiawii, Seem, in Seem. Journ. Sot. viii. 380 ; glabrous or innova- 

 tions minutely puberulous, leaflets 5-7 subsessile, corolla white tube 1-li in. 

 slender, pod compressed. D. serrulata, Seem. I. c_ 383 (as to the Central 

 Indian tree). Spathodea falcata, Brand. For. Fl. 350. S. crispa, Bureau 

 Monogr. Bign. t. 27. 



BOMBAY and CONCAN ; Lato. CENTRAL PKOYINCES; Edgeworth, Dr. Stewart, 

 R. Thompson. RAJPUTANA ; Meywar, Dr. Brandix. 



Considered by Dr. Brandis as a glabrous var. of D.. falcata. The leaflets are 

 sessile, often larger than those of D. falcata, and (mostly) very shortly acuminate. 

 The one capsule seen is very nearly straight. The Central Indian example of Edge- 

 worth, referred by Seemann to the Burmese Stereospertnum serrulatum, has (as not 

 rarely in D. falcata and D. Lawii) a few obscure teeth to the leaflets. 



6. D. arcuata, Clarke; pubescent or subfloccose, leaflets 9-11 

 roundish elliptic, corolla white tube l-2 in. narrowly cylindric. Spatho- 

 dea arcuata, Wight Ic. t. 1340 ; Bedd. For. Man. 169. S. crispa, Dalz. & 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 160. 



S. MADRAS; Coimbatore and Ootacamund, Wight, Beddome. 



Leaves 6-12 in. ; leaflets 2-3 in., obtuse at both ends, sometimes with a short mucro, 

 floccose-pubescent on both surfaces ; petiolule 0- in. Calyx 1 in., floccose-pubescent. 

 Corolla 3 in., mouth 2 in. diam., lobes crisped crenate. Anthers included, cells nearly 

 parallel. Capsule not seen. United with D. crispa by Seemann and Dalzell. 



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Trees. Leaves large, 1-pinnate. Flowers large ; pariicleeTlierminal, 

 woolly. Calyx ovoid, closed when young, irregularly 3-5-lobed during 

 flower. Corolla tubular-ventricose, glabrous or densely tomentose without, 

 rose or yellow; lobes 5, rounded, subequal. Capsule elongate, cylindric or 

 compressed, falcate or twisted, loculicidally 2-valved ; septum flat or 4-angu- 



