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8537. Negri Sembilan : Goodenough 1860. Pahang : Bidley I.e. — 

 DiSTRiB. Burma (Lohb), Sumatra {Forbes 2663, 2693), Java, Borneo 

 {Beccari 811). 



2. Eadeemachera am^na, Seem. Journ. Bot. VIII. 146 (1870). A 

 very tall tree, reaching 80 feet in height, all parts glabrous ; branches 

 thick, with prominent leaf-scars. Leaves 2-3-pinnate, apparently 2 feet 

 long or longer, the lower pinnae only again divided, the upper ones simply 

 pinnate ; rachis smooth, thick, swollen and articulate at the nodes, 

 enlarged at foot ; petiole about 6 in. long, all joints easily separating 

 when dry : leaflets oblong-lanceolate when young, elliptic-oblong when 

 old, shortly and abruptly blunt-acuminate at apex, rounded or attenuate 

 at base and slightly decurrent, glabrous, entire, coriaceous, 4 to 6 in. 

 long, 2 to 3 in. broad ; midrib thick, impressed above, main-nerves 

 about 10 pairs, joined at about '25 in. from the margin in a looped 

 nerve, secondary nerves alternate with the main-nerves, reticulations 

 obscure ; petiolules "4 or '5 in. long, channelled above by the decurrent 

 margins of the blade. Panicles much and usually trichotomously 

 branched, rachis terete, upper branches channelled ; peduncle about 

 5 in. long ; pedicels slender ; bracteoles minute, rounded ; flowers 

 white, tinted with pink outside and with yellow streaks within ; the 

 calyx dark red. Calyx in bud closed, in flower 2-lipped, the lips bluntly 

 apiculate ; tube and lobes equal, -3 in. long, glabrous, deciduous. 

 Corolla-tube shortly cylindric at first for -2 to '3 in. long, then cam- 

 panulate, glabrous ; lobes nearly equal, rounded, crenulate on the 

 margins, '2 to '3 in. long. Stamens 4, with an abortive fifth ; filaments 

 thickened and glandular-hairy below, slender and glabrous above ;. 

 anther-cells linear, curved, divaricate, the connective prominently 

 apiculate. Dish cupular, glabrous. Ovary oblong, flattened ; style 

 slender, as long as tube; stigma bilobed, lobes lanceolate; cells 2, 

 ovules very many. Capsule slender, torulose, 12 to 18 in. long, 3 in. 

 broad ; valves thin, chartaceous, flattened after dehiscence and then 

 •25 in. broad, keeled on the back ; septum cylindric, spongy, speedily 

 caducous, bearing on each border a row of small seeds. Seeds (with 

 wings) -75 in. long, -1 to "15 in. broad, wings hyaline, rounded ; testa 

 membranous ; cotyledons flat, oblong, longer than broad ; radicle 

 minute. Kurz For. Fl. II. 232. B. gigantea and B. Lobbii, Miq. in 

 Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. III. 250. Spatliodea amce^ia, DC. Prod. IX. 208. 

 S. Lobbii, Teys. & Binn. in Nat. Tijdsch. XXV. 413. Spatliodea 

 gigantea, Bl. Bijdr. 761; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 755; DC. I.e. 207. 

 Bignonia amana. Wall. Cat. 6512 and PI. As. Ear. II. 78. t. 183. 

 Lagaropyxis gigantea, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. I. 198. Stereospermum 

 hypostictum, Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 384 ; Koord. & Val.. 

 Bijdr. I. 72. 



