STBEEOSPEEMUM. ] BIQNONIACE^E. ITS 



1. S. chelonoides, DC. Trod, ix, 210 ; Brandis For. Fl. 852 ; Ind. Trees 

 495 ; F. B. I. iv, 882 ; Watt E. D. ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 514 ; Prain 

 Beng. PL 790; CooJce FL Bomb, ii, 331. Bignonia chelonoides, Linn. f. ; 

 Roxb. FL Ind. Hi, 106. Vern. Pader, parral. 



A deciduous tree, 30-60 ft. high, glabrous except the flowers; bark thick, 

 brown, corky outside, branches spreading^ Leaves simply pinnate, 

 12-18 in. long ; leaflets 3-5 pairs and an odd one, 4-5 in. long by 1-2 in. 

 wide, elliptic, caudate-acuminate, glabrous ; base acute or rounded, 

 often unequal-sided, petiolules $ in. or less. Flowers fragrant, in lax 

 drooping panicles with slender articulate glabrous branches. Calyx 

 campanulate, in. long, glabrous, usually puiple, shortly 3-5-lobed. 

 Corolla f in. long, yellow, veined and tinged with purple, more or less 

 pubescent outside, bearded within on the lower side ; lobes of limb 

 rounded and crisped. Filaments villous at the base. Capsule 1-2 ft. 

 long by in. wide, subquadrangular and pointed, spirally twisted, often 

 dotted with white specks. Seeds 1-1 in. long, splitting easily along the 

 transverse furrow. 



Forests of N. Oudh. Flowers April to June, after the leaves have 

 appeared. IMSTRIB. Eastwards to Sikkim Chittagong and Chota Nag- 

 pur; also in the moist forests of Bombay, S. India and Ceylon, extending 

 to Burma. The hard grey wood is used for building and for making 

 furniture. The roots, leaves and flowers are employed in native 

 medicine. 



2. S. suaveolens, DC. Prod, ix, 211 ; Brandis For. FL 351 ; Ind. Trees 

 495 ; F. B. I, iv, 382; Watt E. D. ; Kanjilal For. .FL Sch. Circ. 255; 

 Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 515 ; Prain Beng. PL 790 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb . ii, 

 331. Bignonia suaveolens, Roxb, FL Ind. Hi. 104 ; Royle III. 295. Vern. 

 Pddal. 



A deciduous tree up to 60 ft. high, young parts viscous-hairy. Baric grey 

 exfoliating in large thick flat scales. Leaves 1-2 ft. long, simply 

 pinnate ; leaflets 3-4 pairs with an odd one, shortly stalked, 3-6 in. long, 

 broadly elliptic, acute or acuminate, entire or serrulate, rough above, 

 hairy beneath, rounded and unequal at the base, main lateral nerves 6-8 

 pairs, petiolules about fa in. long. Flowers very fragrant, arranged in 

 large lax 3-chotomously branched viscidly hairy panicles. Calyx in. 

 long, shorty 3-5-lobed. Corolla dull-purple, funnel-shaped, 1-1^ in. long, 

 puberulous outside, bearded within at the throat ; limb oblique, Si- 

 lipped ; lobes rounded, crenate and crisped, the 3 lower longer than the 

 2 upper. Filaments not villous at the base. Capsule 1-2 ft. long by f 

 in wide, straight, cylindric, somewhat ribbed, grey or purplish, rough 

 with white raised specks. Seeds 1 in. long, with a long membranous- 

 wing at each end. 



Common within the sal areas of the Dehra Dun and Saharanpur forest s 

 and in the Sub-Himalayan tracts eastwards, Flowers during May and 

 June, and the fruit ripens in the cold season. DISTBIB. Punjab Plain, 

 "becoming scarce west of the Jhelum ; outer Himalayan ranges from 



