17U BIGNONIACE^E. [ DOLICHANDEOKE; 



5, sabequal, round, crisped, crenate or incised. Anther-cells oblong, 

 parallel. Disk annular, cushion-like. Ovary sessile, ovules usually 

 many-seriate. Fruit a long subterete or compressed capsule, lo- 

 cuUcidally 2-valved, imperfectly 4-celled. Seeds thinly discoid, 

 with a broad wing on each side. Species about 20, in India and 

 Ceylon, extending to Malaya, China, Trop. Africa and Australia. 



D. falcata, Seem, in Journ. JEM. viii, 381 ; F. B. J. iv, 380 ; Watt 

 E. D.', Gamble Man. Ind. Ttmb. 512; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 329; Brand. 

 Ind. Trees 493. D. Lawn, Seem.; F. B. I. iv, 380. Spathodea falcata, 

 Wall.; Brandis For. Fl. 350. Bignonia spathacea, Roxb.; PI, Ind. Hi, 103. 



A deciduous tree up to 50 ft. high ; innovations grey-pubescent or shortly 

 villous. Leaves simply pinnate, 3-6 in. long ; leaflets 5-7, pubescent or 

 glabrous, |-1| in. long, obovate or suborbicular, rarely with a small 

 obtuse point, more or less unequal at the base, the terminal usually 

 larger ; main lateral nerves about 4 pairs, prominent beneath, petio- 

 lules short or none. Racemes terminal, few-fid., pedicels ^-in. long. 

 Calyx |-J in. long, softly grey-pubescent. Corolla white, about 1 in. long; 

 tubs 1 H in. long, slender, tapering downwards ; lobes obovate-oblong, 

 their margins undulate and crisped, Capsule 10-18 in. long and about f 

 in wid falcately curved, compressed, glabrous. Seeds about 1 in, long 

 by -in. wide, rectangular, winged at both ends. 



Bundelkhand, on hills above Doni (Duthie), dry hills in C. India 

 (Edgeworth). Flowers in May and June. DISTRIB. Eajputana, W, 

 and S. India. The hard whitish wood is used for building and agri- 

 cultural purposes A decoction of the fruit is said to be used in native 

 medicine. 



4, s EREOSPERMUM, Cham.; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 382. 

 Trees. JLeaves large, 1-or 2 -pinnate. Flowers in large lax termi- 

 nal panicles. Calyx ovoid, closed or open in bud, truncate or shortly 

 and unequally 2-5-lobed or 5-toothed in flower. Corolla tubular- 

 campanulate ; limb spreading, 5-lobed and somewhat 2- lipped ; lobes- 

 subequal, round, often crisped toothed or laciniate. Stamens 4, with a 

 radirnentnry 5th ; anther-cells linear, diverging. Disk cushion -like, 

 fleshy. Fruit an elongate terete subcompressed or obscurely 4-acgled 

 capsule, loculicidally 2-valved and t often spirally twisted, septum at 

 length thick and corky. Seeds many, in one or two series, trigonous,, 

 with a transverse groove outside and a prominent ridge within which 

 fits into a deep groove of the septum ; wings membranous, lying flat- 

 on the septum. Species 12, in Tropical Asia and Africa. 



Panicle-branches slender, glabrous; capsule 



subquadrangular, smooth . . . 1. S. chelonoides. 



Panicle-branches short, viscidly hairy ; 



capsule cylindric, rough . . . 2. S. suaveolens. 



