152 65. BIGNONIACE^. \_Millingtonm, 



Stamens 4; autliers 1-celled, the other cell I'educed to a small hook. 

 Capsule flat, liuear, dehiscing at the edges. Seeds with a broad 

 hyaline wiag. 



M. hortensis, Linn. £. Suppl. 291 ; Fl. Br. I. 4. 377 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 

 t. 249 ; Bnuidis For. FJ. 347 ; Wight. 111. 101. Nivii-chambeli, ahas-nimb, 

 M. Cultivated along road sides and in parks and gardens throughout the 

 presidency. Fl. Aug., Sept., also during the cold weather in the Konkan. 

 Indigenous in the Malay Archipelago. 



TECOMA, Juss. 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves simple or pinnate. Flowers in 

 terminal racemes or panicles. Calyx campanulate, S-toouhed. Corolla 

 tubular-ventricose, lobes 5. Stamens glabrous, inserted in the lower 

 part of the corolla-tube ; anthers 2-celled. Ovary 2-celled on the 

 annular disc. Capsule linear, loculicidally 2-valved. Seeds flat, 

 imbricate with a thiu^ membranous wing. 



Leaves simple .. ... ... ... ...T. undulata. 



Leaves compound ... ... ...T. Stems. 



T. undulata, G. Don. Gen. Syst. IV. 223 ; Fl. Br. I. 4. 378 ; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 161 ; Brandis For. Fl. 852. Lohun, lohero, Sind ; 

 raJita roliida, M. In Sind and Gujarat, planted in gardens at Bombay, 

 Fl. Mch.-Apl. Fr. May-July. 



T. Stans, Sprang. Syst. 2. 834 ; Dalz. &Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 55. In 

 gardens, and run wild in the Konkan and North Kanara. Fl. R. and.O. 

 seasons. Corolla yellow. A native of South America. 



DOLICHANDRONE, Seem. 



Trees. Leaves 1-pinnate. Flowers in racemes or terminal 

 panicles. Calyx spathaceous, circumciss-deciduous. Corolla tubular, 

 5-lobed ; lobes imbricate in bud. Stamens didynamous 4, with a 

 rudimentary 5th. Anther-cells diverging. Ovary 2-celled. Capsule 

 cylindrical or compressed, loculicidally dehiscent, septum free. 

 Seeds discoid, winged. 



Leaflets glabrous, acuminate, petiolule \ inch. Capsule 



slightly com^Jressed... ... ... ... ... ...D. criftpa. 



Leaflets pubescent, obtuse, petiolule or very short. 



Capsule much compressed, falcate ... ... D.falcata^ 



D. crispa, Seem, in Seem. Jour. Bot. YIII. 381 ; Fl. Br. I. 4. 379 



Spathocka crispa, Brandis For. Fl. 350 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 168. Dalz. & 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 160. Mtishwal, K. Common in the dry forests of the 

 Kuputgadda range in the Dharwar district. Fl. Aug., Sept. Fr. ripe 

 next R.S. 



D.falcata, Seem, in Seem. Jour. Bot. VIII. 381 ; Fl. Br. I. 4. 380 ; 

 Spathodea falccUa, Wall. ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 160; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 

 t. 71 ; Brandis For. Fl. 350 ; Dolichandrone Laivii, Seem. Fl. Br. I. 4. 



