Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 385 



1 to 3 in. long ; bracts and bracteoles very small, caducous ; pedicels 

 slender, -3 to "4 in. long ; flowers white. Calyx cupular, -1 in. long ; 

 lobes very shallow, rounded, recurved. Corolla-tube very slender, 

 1-5 to 2-5 in. long, about '07 to "1 in. broad, glabrous ; lobes ovate- 

 oblong, acute, pubescent within, -5 to -6 in. long, -2 to "3 in. broad. 

 Stamens inserted at the top of the tube ; filaments slender, -4 to -5 in. 

 long; anthers rounded, ovate. Ovary slender; style very slender, 

 exsert, stigma-lobes ovate. Disk cushion-like, "05 in. high. Capsule 

 about 12 to 15 in. long and -75 in. broad, acute at both ends ; valves 

 woody, septum ultimately free. Seeds in several rows along the margins 

 of the septum, much overlapping, including the wing about 1 in. by 

 •5 in. ; wing narrow at the apex, hyaline. DC. Prod. IX. 182 ; Wight 

 111. 16 bis fig. 6 ; Bureau Monog. Bign. t. 8 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Madr. t. 

 249 ; Brandis For. Fl. 347 ; Kurz For. FL II. 238 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. IV. 377 ; Cooke Bomb. Fl. II. 334 ; Prain Beng. Plants 788. 

 Bignonia Azedarachta, Koen. Ann. Bot. I. 178. B. suberosa, Eoxb. 

 Cor. PI. III. 11, t. 214 and Fl. Ind. III. Ill; Wall. Cat. 6513. 



Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 1215. Singapore : Deschamps. — 

 DiSTEiB. India, Burma (fide Kurz), Sumatra (Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 Suppl. 565). 



Whether the specimens were gathered from really wild trees there is nothing to 

 show, but if Kurz is right in his statement that the cork-tree, so well known in India 

 in cultivation, is wild in tropical forests from Martaban to Tenasserim, it may well 

 occur in a wild state further south in the Peninsula. 



Order LXXXVIII. PED ALINED. 

 [By D. Prain.] 



Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves opposite or the upper alternate, 

 entire toothed or lobed ; stipules 0. Floioers irregular, solitary or, 

 rarely, clustered or racemose, usually axillary ; pedicels short ; bracts 

 minute or 0. Sepals -i-o, slightly connate below. Petals connate in a 

 tubular-ventricose corolla ; limb 5-lobed, obscurely 2-Hpped ; lobes 

 imbricate. Stamens 4, didynamous, rarely 2. Carpels 2, connate in a 

 2-celled, rarely 1-celled ovary ; ovules many or few, superposed ; style 

 filiform ; stigma shortly 2-lobed. Fruit hard, indehiscent, or a 2- (less 

 often 3-4-) valved capsule. Seeds without wings ; albumen 0. — Disteib. 

 Species about 40, in tropical and sub-tropical countries. 



Sesamtjm, Linn. 



Erect or prostrate herbs. Leaves opposite below, alternate above, 

 entire toothed, lobed, or divided. Floioers axiUary, solitary or few and 



