Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 383 



transverse, quadrangular in section. Seeds exceedingly numerous, in 

 many rows and imbricating, curved ; furnished at either end with a 

 very thin hyaline wing, seeds and wing reaching 1-5 in. long and -5 in. 

 broad ; testa membranous ; cotyledons obcordate, flat ; radicle slender. 

 Bureau Monog. Bign. t. 20 ; Kurz For. Fl. II. 237. P. Bheedii, Wight 

 Ic. tt. 1343-4 ; Clarke in Hook, f . Fl. Br. Ind. III. 384 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 

 CLXIX. ; Cooke Bomb. Fl. II. 333; Prain Beng. Plants 11. 790. 

 Bignonia indica, var. /3 Linn. Sp. PI. 871 ; Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 460. 

 B. Pajanelia, Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII. 316. B. longifolia, 

 Willd. Sp. PI. III. 306; K. Sch. in Engl. & Prantl Pflanzenfam. IV. 3b, 

 244. B. multijuga, Wall. Cat. 6503 and PI. As. Ear. 1. 81, tt. 95, 96. 

 " Pajaneh," Eheede Hort. Mai. I. 44. 



Penang : Jack. Peeak : Scortechini ; King's Collector 2616, 3958. 

 — DisTKiB. Eastern Bengal, Burma, Andaman Islands, Malabar coast. 



6. DiPLANTHEKA, Banks & Solander. 



Trees, more or less hairy. Leaves undivided, large, opposite or 

 whorled. Floioers large, yellow, in short thick panicles among the 

 uppermost leaves, the primary branches of the panicles shortly ver- 

 ticillate and densely cyme-bearing. Calyx campanulate, oblong and 

 closed when young, with 2 to 5 valvate lobes connivent in flower and 

 sometimes sub-bilabiate. Corolla tubular-ventricose ; lobes 5, rounded, 

 sub-equal. Stamens 4, didynamous, exsert ; filaments involute in bud ; 

 anthers glabrous ; cells linear, at first parallel, afterwards divaricate. 

 Disk thick, pulvinate. Ovary sub-sessile, ovules densely many-seriate. 

 Capsule oblong-fusiform, woody, loculicidally 2-valved ; septum flat, 

 thick. Seeds many-seriate, between the margins of the septum, flattened, 

 with a broad hyaline wing. — Disteib. From the Malay Peninsula to 

 New Caledonia and Australia : about 6 species. 



DiPLANTHEEA BANCANA, Scheffer in Nat. Tijdschr. XXXI. 334 (1870). 

 A lofty tree ; branches stout ; branchlets pale brown, pubescent, marked 

 with lenticels and prominent leaf-scars. Leaves chartaceous, undivided, 

 ovate, obtuse at apex, cordate at base; margins irregularly undulate, 

 furnished with 1 to 2 glandular pits on the upper surface at the inser- 

 tion of the petiole ; both surfaces slightly pubescent, especially beneath 

 and on the nerves ; 8 to 13 in. long, 5 to 8 in. broad ; midrib stout, 

 main-nerves 10 to 12 pairs, the lowest 3 close together and spreading 

 more or less downwards or horizontally, the rest distant, irregular, 

 often branched at two-thirds of their length, the branches all anasto- 

 mosing near the margin ; reticulations prominent, transverse ; petiole 

 stout, 2 to 4 in. long, base articulate. Panicles terminal, 4 to 5 in. in 

 diam., tawny- villous ; common peduncle 5 to 6 in. long, '25 in. thick; 



