170 BIGNONIACEJE. [ OROXYUTM. 



usually in many rows, 'arsatropous. Fruit a loculicidally or septi- 

 cidally 2-valved capsule, usually elongated ; septum enlarging in 

 fruit, deciduous with the placentas. Seeds compressed, discoid, rarely 

 subtrigonous, usually prominently winged, exalbuminous. Species 

 about 550, mostly tropical and chiefly in S. America ; PI few are 

 extratropical, including two Himalayan herbaceous species of 

 AmpJiicome. 



Perfect stamens 5 .... 1. OBOXYLDM. 



Perfect stamens 4: 



Leaves simple ..... 2. TECOMELLA. 

 Leaves pinnate: 



Calyx spatbaceous . ... 3. DoLiCHANDRONE. 



Calyx campanulate . 4. STEREOSPERMUM. 



1. OROXYLUM' Vert. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 377. 



A glabrous tree. Leaves opposite, large, 2-3-pinnate ; leaflets ovate, 

 entire. Flowers in long terminal racemes. Calyx large, cam- 

 panulate, coriaceous, truncate or obscurely toothed, persistent. 

 Corolla large, campanulate, white or purplish ; lobes 5, subequal, 

 round, crisped and toothed. Stamen* 5, perfect, exserted, four of 

 them equal, the fifth shorter ; filaments straight ; anthers glabrous, 

 2-celled ; cells oblong, parallel. Disk wide. Fruit a large linear 2- 

 valved capsule, compressed parallel to the septu/r, opening septi- 

 fragally. Seeds many, thinly discoid ; wing b>oad, hyaline. 

 A single species, found in India, Ceylon, Burma, Malava, China and 

 Cochin-Chin a. 



O. indicum, Vent. Dec. Gen. Nov. 8; F. B. I. iv, 378 ; Watt E. D. ; Kanji- 

 lal For. Fl. 254 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 510 ; Collett Fl. Sitnl. 368, Prain 

 Beng. PL 787 ; Coolie FL Bom 6, ii, 327 ; Brandis Ind. Trees 496. Bignonia 

 indica, Linn.; Rcxb. FL In<*. Hi, 110 ; Royle IIL295. Calosanthes indica, 

 Blume ; Brandis For. FL 347. Vern. Ullu, arlu, pharkath, pharri, sanna 

 lOudh). 



A small deciduous soft-wooded tree, up to 40 ft. high, branching near the 

 top ; bark light-brown, usually covered with corky lenticels. Leaves very 

 large, sometimes attaining 5 ft. in length ; rhachis stout, cylindric ; 

 leaflets 2-4 pairs, 2|-5 in. long, ovate or elliptic, acuminate, entire, 

 glabrous, base rounded or cordate, petiolules -f in. long. Flowers many, 

 in large erect racemes 1-2 ft. long or more, foetid, pedicels ^-1$ in. long. 

 Calyx about 1 in. long, oblong-campanulate, obscurely toothed, 

 coriaceous, glabrous. Corolla 2-3 in. long, fleshy, tube green, limb lurid- 

 purple, margins crisped. Filaments woolly at the base. Capsule 1-3 

 ft. by 2-3 in. wide, flat and straight. Seeds many, 2-3 in. long, margins 

 broadly winged except at the base. 



