Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 377 



Fl. II. 237 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 378 ; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. 

 III. 281 ; Koord. & Yal. Bijdr. I. 66 ; Cooke Bomb. Fl. II. 327 ; Prain 

 Beng. Plants II. 787. Bignonia indica, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 625; 

 Lamk Diet. I. 423; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. III. 110; Wall. Cat. 6514. 

 B. pentandra, Lioiiv. Fl. Cochinch. 379. SjxttJiodea indica, Pers. Syn. 

 II. 173. Calosanthes indica, Blume Bijdr. 760 ; DC. Prod. IX. 177 ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 1337 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 161 ; Bureau Monog. Bign. 

 (1864) t. 9 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 752 ; Brandis For. Fl. 347. " Palega 

 pajaneli," Eheede Hort. Mai. I. t. 43. 



Penang : Curtis 983. Perak : Scortechini 1613 ; King's Collector 

 7033. Pahang : common on the banks of the river from Pekan up, 

 flowers dull brownish-purple {Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. 2nd Ser. III. 

 826). Malacca: Maingay (K.D.) 1213. — Distrib. India, Ceylon, 

 Burma, Sumatra {Forbes 1284), Java, and east to Cochin China. 



2. DoLicHANDEONE, Fenzl. 



Trees. Leaves opposite, pinnate, leaflets entire or toothed. Floioers 

 in terminal racemes or panicles, few, large. Calyx spathaceous, cleft 

 to the base down the front, caducous. Corolla-tube long or short, 

 inflated above ; lobes 5, nearly equal, crisped on the margin. Stamens 

 4, didynamous, included ; anthers glabrous, the cells oblong, at first 

 parallel, afterwards divergent. Dish annular, cushion-like. Ovary 

 sessile ; ovules numerous, usually many-seriate. Capsule elongate, 

 terete or somewhat compressed, straight or incurved, loculicidally 

 2-valved, the septum often thickened and making 4 spurious cells. 

 Seeds 1 to oo-seriate on the margins of the septum, much compressed, 

 the wing thickened or hyaline. — Distkib. Tropical Africa, Asia, and 

 Australia, about 15 species. 



DoLiCHANDKONE Eheedii, Seem. Journ. Bot. VIII. 380 (1870). A 

 deciduous tree reaching 40 to 50 feet in height of stem ; branchlets stout, 

 marked with prominent leaf-scars, innovations glabrous. Leaves 

 imparipinnate, 9 to 12 in. long, leaflets 2 to 4 pairs, with an end 

 one, rachis slender ; side leaflets rhomboid, unequal at base, acuminate 

 at apex, margin entire or with few distant serratures, glabrous on 

 both surfaces, 3 to 4 in. long, 1*5 to 2-5 in. broad, main-nerves 6 to 7 

 pairs, petiolule slender, articulate at base, "3 to -5 in. long ; end leaflet 

 similar, but equal at base ; all nearly black when dry. Flowers few, 

 usually 1 to 4 in a short terminal corymbose raceme ; pedicels glabrous, 

 1 to 1'5 in. long. Calyx-tube closed in bud and beaked, spathaceous 

 in flower, 1'5 in. long. Corolla white, tubular-funnel-shaped, 4 to 

 7 in. long ; tube slender at first, then gradually expanding ; lobes 1 in. 



