DOLICHANDRONE.] BlGNONIACE^. 171 



Sub-Himalayan tracts from the Jumna eastwards, usually in more or less 

 moist places Flowers during June. and July, and the fruit ripens in the 

 cold season. DISTRIB. Throughout India except in the western drier 

 area, Himalaya ascending to 4,000 ft. in Kumaon ; also in Ceylon and 

 Burma, extending to the Malay Peniiis. and Archipel, and Cochin-China . 

 The bark and fruit are used as a mordant in dyeing and tanniog, and the 

 root-bark is much valued as a native medicine, the extremely light seeds 

 are made use of for lining hats. 



2. TECOMELLA, Seem. ; PI. Brit. Ind. iv, 378. 



A shrub or small tree with glaiicescent foliage ; innovations 

 stellately grey-tomentose, otherwise qtrite glabrous. Leaves usually 

 opposite, simple, oblong, obtuse, entire. Flowers in terminal racemes. 

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

 vrntricose, month wide ; lobes subequal, rounded, imbricate. Stamens 

 exserted ; anther-cells divergent, pendulous. Disk cupular. Ovary 

 oblong, ovules many in each cell. Capsule linear-oblong, somewhat 

 compressed, opening loculicidally. Seeds discoid, winged, the wing 

 very narrow at its apex, absent at the base. A single species found 

 in India, Baluchistan and Arabia. 



T. undulata, Seem, in Ann. $ Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 3, Vol. X, 30 ; Coolie 

 Fl. Bomb, ii, 328. Tecoma undulata, G. Don ; F. B. I. iv, 378 ; Watt 

 E. D. ; Brandis For. Fl. 352; Ind. Trees 492 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 

 511. Bignonia undulata, Smith; Roxb. FL Ind. Hi, 10 1 ; Roy le III. 295. 

 B. glauca, Dene, in Jacquem. Voy. Dot. 137, t. 142. Vern, Roira, rohera 

 (Merwara). 



Branches drooping. Leaves 2-5 in. long, narrowly oblong, margins 

 undulate, petiole 1 in. long. Flowers inodorous, in corymbose racemes 

 terminating short lateral branches, pedicels |-J in. long. Calyx nearly 

 in. long ; lobes hardly in. long, broadly ovate, obtuse, mucronate. 

 Corolla H-- in. long, orange-yellow, veined. Filaments glabrous. 

 Stigma of 2 spathulate-oblong plates. Capsule about 8 in. long, slight- 

 ly curved, glabrous, valves thin. Seeds (including wing) 1 in. by f in. 



Jumna and Chambal ravines near Etawah, also in Merwara Flowers 

 Jan.-April. DISTRIB. Punjab, on the Siwalik range west of Jumna, 

 Rajputana, Sind and Gujarat, extending to Baluchistan and Arabia. 

 Very ornamental when in flower. Wood grey or yellowish-brown 

 mottled with lighter streaks, strong and durable. The leaves afford 

 good fodder and the bark is used medicinally. 



3, DOLTCHANDRONE, Seem.; Fl Brit. Ind. iv, 378. 



Trees, glabrous or tomentose. Leaves opposite, 1-pinnat. 

 Flowers in terminal racemes or panicles. Calyx spathaceous, cleft 

 to the base ou one side. Corolla tubular, tube long or short ; lobes 



