384 cvn. BIGNOXIACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Stereospermum. 



Sylv. t. 70 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 159. Tecoma xylocarpa, &. Don G-en. 

 SysL iv. 225. Spathodea xylocarpa, Brand. For. FL 349, t. 43. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; common, extending north to the Satpura Range, Brandis. 



A tree, 30-60 ft. ; innovations pubescent. Leaves 1-4 ft. ; leaflets 3 by 1^ in., 

 subsessile. Panicle somewhat rigid, erect. Calyx J-| in., pubescent or mature 

 glabrate ; lobes 3-5, very short, broad. Corolla ventricose from near the base, sub- 

 glabrous ; lobes round, crisped. Filaments hairy below. Capsule 12-30 by 1-1^ in., 

 glabrous, tubercular. Seeds (including the wings) 1^ by ^ in., thinly discoid. 



8. S. hypostictum, Miq. FL Ind. Sat. Suppl. 565 ; glabrous, leaflets 

 oblong or elliptic acuminate entire, panicles compound branches slender, 

 corolla 2 in., pod linear very slender not woody smooth. Spathodea gigantea, 

 Blume Bijd. 761 ; DC. Prodr. ix. 207. S. amoena, A. DC. Prodr. ix. 208 ; 

 Brand. For. FL 349. S. Lobbii, Teys. 8f Binnend. in Nat. Tidsch. xxv. 

 413. Bignonia amoena, Wall. Cat. 6512, and PL As. Ear. ii. 78, t. 183. 

 Lagaropyxis gigantea, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. i. 198. Radermachera 

 amcena, Seem, in Seem. Journ. Bot. viii. 146 ; Kurz For. FL ii. 232. E. 

 gigantea & Lobbii, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. iii. 250. 



TAVOY ; Wallich. MALACCA and SINGAPOEE ; Griffith, Maingay. DISTRIB. 

 Java, Sumatra. 



Attaining 80 ft. Leaves 2-pinnate (and ex Kurz 3-pinnate) ; leaflets 5 by 

 2 in. ; petiolule | in. Calyx 3 | in 1 ., closed in the bud, iii flower shortly 2-lipped oV 

 subspathaceous. Corolla glabrous, white, tube rose ; lobes crenulate, hardly crisped. 

 Capsule 15 by in. ; valves thin, tough. Seeds (including the wings) by - in., 

 thinly discoid. 



9. S. ? Crhorta ? Clarice ; glabrous or innovations puberulous, leaflets 

 sessile elliptic acute, partial rachises narrowly winged, corolla 2 in. elon- 

 gate tubular lobes round subentire. Bigiiouia Ghorta, Ham. in Wall. 

 Cat. 6510 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 167. 



" DEVIDTJBA ; " Hamilton. 



Leaves opposite, bipinnate ; leaflets 2 by f in., unequal-sided, subsessile, entire. 

 Peduncle terminal; panicle many-fld., branches slender; pedicels \\ in., subfascicled. 

 Calyx \ in., campanulate ; lobes 4-5, short, triangular. Corolla broadly cylindric, 

 slightly wider upwards, glabrous; mouth hardly 1 in. diam. Stamens 4, didynamous ; 

 anther-cells narrowly oblong, separate, divaricate. Capsule not seen. 



IX. PAJANELIA, DC. 



A large tree, glabrous except the corolla. Leaves large, 1-pinnate ; 

 leaflets numerous, entire. Flowers large in terminal, thyrsoid panicles. 

 Calyx large, ovoid, closed in the bud, in flower ventricose-campaiiulate, 

 5-fid. Corolla large, tubular-ventricose ; lobes 5, crisped. Capsule large, 

 narrowly oblong, winged, compressed, loculicidally 2-valved. Seeds com- 

 pressed, with a membranous wing on each side. 



P. Rheedii, DC. Prodr. ix. 227, excl. syn. Lour. 4* Pers. ; Wight 

 Ic. tt. 1343-4 ; Bureau Monogr. Bign. t. 20 ; Bedd. For. Man. 169. Big- 

 nonia indica var. /3, Linn. Sp. PL 871. B. Pajanelia, Ham. in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xiii. 316. B. longifolia, Willd. Sp. PL iii. 306. B. multi- 

 juga, Wall. Cat. 6503, and PL As. Ear. i. 81, tt. 95, 96. Payanelia multi- 

 juga, Kurz For. FL ii. 227. 



SILHET and KHASIA HILLS ; Wallich, Griffith. PEGU, TENASSESIM, and 

 ANDAMANS; Kurz. MALABAE, common up .to 2000 ft., Beddome, &c. 



A tree, 30-60 ft. Leaves 1J-3 ft. ; leaflets 19-25, 3-8 in., elliptic, acuminate, 



