378 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



long, crenately crisped, recurved. Stamens 4, didynamous ; filaments 

 curved inwards ; anther-cells large, oblong, divaricate. Ovary conical, 

 style slender, stigma of 2 rounded lobes. Capsule 1 to 2 feet long, 

 about 1 in. broad, flattened- cylindrical, faintly ribbed, septum thickened 

 in the middle on both sides. Seeds very many, overlapping in many 

 rows, rectangular (with the wings), -5 to -7 in^ long, -3 in. broad, wings 

 corky ; testa membranous ; cotyledons flat, deeply emarginate, the lobes 

 nearly orbicular; radicle short. Clarke in Hook. f. PI. Br. Ind. III. 

 379; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. III. 282; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. I. 69. D. 

 longissima, K. Sch. in Engl. & Prantl Pflanzenfam. IV. 2b. 240, fig. 92 

 B-D. Bignonia spathacea, Linn. f. Suppl. 283. B. longissima, Lour. 

 Fl. Cochinch. 380 ? Spathodea longiflora, Vent. Choix. n. 40. S. 

 BJieedii, Wall. Cat. 6516; DC. Prod. IX. 206; Wight Ic. t. 1339; 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. CLXVIII. ; Kurz For. Fl. II. 234 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 11- 

 754. S. ? Loureiriana, DC. I.e. 209 ? S. Diepenhorstii, Miq. I.e. " Nir 

 Pongelion," Eheede Hort. Mal. VI. t. 29. 



Penang : Curtis 1184. Pekak : Sco7-techini 1098 ; W^'ay 2501. 

 Pahang : in mangrove swamps (Bidley I.e.). Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 

 4066 ; Maingay (K.D.) 1210. — Distrib. Malabar coast of India, 

 Ceylon, Burma, Andaman Islands, Malay Archipelago east to New 

 Guinea. 



3. Steebospermum, Cham. 



Trees. Leaves opposite, 1-2-pinnate ; leaflets petiolulate, entire or 

 sometimes toothed. Floioers in large lax terminal panicles, white 

 pink or yellow. Calyx ovoid, open or closed in bud, truncate or 

 shortly unequally lobed in flower. Corolla campanulate or funnel- 

 shaped; mouth bilabiate, upper lip 2-, lower 3-cleft; lobes nearly 

 equal, rounded, crisped, toothed or laciniate. Stamens 4, didynamous, 

 included fifth rudimentary ; anthers glabrous, cells linear divergent. 

 Ovary sessile, elongate, 2-celled ; ovules numerous, 2-seriate in each 

 cell. Disk cupular, fleshy. Capsule elongate, terete or somewhat 

 angled, loculicidally 2-valved; septum thick, corky, cylindrical, pitted 

 to receive the seeds in alternating cavities. Seeds trigonous, with a 

 transverse groove without and a prominent ridge within, which fits 

 into a deep pit in the septum ; wings membranous, lying flat upon 

 the septum ; cotyledons folded, 2-lobed, radicle straight. — Distrib. 

 Tropical Asia and Africa. About 12 species. 



Stereospermum fimbriatum, DC. Prod. IX. 211 (1844). A large 

 deciduous tree, reaching 70 to 80 feet in height of stem and 1-5 to 3 feet 

 in diam. ; bark grey, rough ; branchlets stout, innovations and inflores- 

 cence viscid-pubescent. Leaves imparipinnate, 1 to 2 feet long ; rachis 



