382 cvn. BIGNONIACE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Mayodendron. 



JME. igrneum, Kurz Preliminary Pec/u For. Rep. App. D, with a fig., 

 and .For. Fl. ii. 233. Spathodea ignea, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1871, pt. ii. 

 p. 77. 



MAETABAN up to 3000 ft., not infrequent ; Kurz. DISTBIB. Ava, Yunan. 



A tree, 30-40 ft. ; innovations minutely puberulous. Leaves ample, lower pinnae 

 2-pinnate ; leaflets 3-4 in., elliptic, acuminate. Racemes 5-fld., pedicels ^ in. Calyx 

 | in., puberulous. Corolla 2| by 1| in., orange crimson ; narrow cylindric portion of 

 the tube much shorter than the funnel-shaped part; lobes -^ in. long. Capsule 

 18 by | in., subterete, glabrous. Seeds including the pellucid wings, narrow-linear, 

 ^ in. long. 



VIII. STEREOSPERIVIUM, Cham. 



Trees. Leaves 1- or 2-pinnate. Panicles large, lax, terminal. Calyx 

 ovoid, open or closed in the bad, during flower truncate or shortly un- 

 equally lobed. Corolla tnbular-ventricose, yellow or pale rose; lobes 5, 

 nearly equal, round, crisped toothed or laciniate. Capsule elongate, terete, 

 subcompressed or obscurely quadrangular, loculicidally 2-valved ; septum 

 thickened, subterete. Seeds in 1 or 2 series, compressed or subtrigonous, 

 with a membranous wing on each side. Species 10, in tropical Asia and 

 Africa. 



Sect. 1. Eustereospermum. Leaves 1 -pinnate. 



1. S. chelonoides, DC. Prodr. ix. 210 ; leaflets elliptic caudate- 

 acuminate glabrous, panicle-branches slender glabrous, corolla f in., capsule 

 linear obscurely quadrangular, seeds subtrigonous embedded in notches in 

 the septum. Wight Ic. t. 1341 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 72 ; Brand. For. Fl. 

 352 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 230. Bignonia chelonoides, Linn. f. Suppl. 282 ; 

 Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 106 ; Wall. Cat. 6501. B. caudata, Miq. in PL Hohe- 

 nacTc. n. 182, not of DC. Heterophragma chelonoides, Dalz. <$f Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. IW.Rheede Sort. Mai. vi. t. 25. 



Through moister INDIA ; from the Terai of Oudh and Assam to Ceylon and Pegu. 

 DISTRIB. Ava. 



A tree, 30-60 ft., nearly glabrous except the flowers. Leaves 12-18 in.; leaflets 

 7-11, 5 by 2 in. ; petiolule - in. Calyx \ in., shortly 3-5-toothed. Corolla thinly 

 villous within and without ; tube rose, lobes yellow or pale flesh-colour, crisped. 

 Capsule 12-20 by ^-\ in., smooth or speckled. Seeds 1 by i in., easily splitting 

 through the centre. 



2. S. neuranthum, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1873, pt. ii. 91, and For. 

 FL ii. 230 ; leaflets oblong or ovate shortly acuminate hairy beneath, panicle 

 short corymb-like viscous-hairy, corolla 1 in. y capsule linear slender sub- 

 terete keeled, seeds subtrigonous embedded in notches in the septum. 



PEGU and MOULMEIN ; M'Lelland, Parish, Kurz. 



A tree, '40-60 ft. ; innovations softly villous or subtomentose. Leaves 1-1 foot ; 

 leaflets 5-7, 5 by 2 in. ; petiolule in. Panicle loose, about 12-fld. Calyx \ in., 

 hairy; lobes 3-5, very short, broad. Corolla very pale lilac or blueish white (Kurz), 

 sparsely pilose ; lobes rounded, crisped crenate hardly toothed. Capsule 12 by ^-% in., 

 less woody than that of S. chelonoides; valves 1-ribbed on the back;; seeds and 

 septum as in S. chelonoides. 



3. S. suaveolens, DC. Prodr. ix. 211 ; leaflets broadly elliptic acumi- 

 nate or acute entire or serrulate young hairy, panicle very compound many- 

 fld. viscous hairy, corolla 1-l^in., capsule linear terete woody, seeds subtrigo- 

 nous embedded in notches of the septum. Wight Ic. t. 1342 ; Bedd. For. 

 Man. 169 ; Brand. For. Fl. 351 ; Kurz For. FL ii. 231. Bignonia suaveo- 



