786 BENGAL PLANTS. 
Order XCYI. BIGNONIACEZ. 
Trees or shrubs, very rarely climbing, or herbs. Leaves oppo- 
site, very rarely alternate, compound, 1-3 times ge -pinnate, very 
rarely simple. Flowers hermaphrodite, irregular, usually showy, 
in racemes or panicles, usually terminal, rar aly on F holt, lateral 
branches or from the old wood; bracts 0. Sepals connate in a 
2-5-lobed calyx. Petals connate in a tubular-ventricose, 2-lipped 
corolla ; lobes 5, subequal, imbricate in bud. Stamens 4, didyna- 
mous, with often a rudimentary and rarely a perfect fifth, inserted 
where the corolla-tube Reece: abruptly swollen; filaments 
glabrous or Perid at base; anthers 2-celled, cinden or Gey 
exserted, usually connivent in pairs» cells elliptic or oblong, 
parallel or S diveionke’ dehiscence foraitaial. Disk usually 
thick or annular. Carpels 2, connate in a subsessile, 2-celled 
groups of rows in each cell; style long, glabrous; stigma 
inks: 2-lobed. Fruits a senenign. or septicidally 2-valved 
capsule, usually elongated; septum enlarging in fruit, deciduous 
along with the valves; rarely inde heat elongated or globular. 
ds compressed, discoid, rarely subtrigonous, usually very 
prominently winged ; albumen 0. 
Stamens 5, perfect; leaves 2-3-pinnate; capsule septifragal, linear, 
compressed AO to the repay btd large ; calyx large, coriaceous, 
truncate ; corolla-tube wide-cam Oroxylum. 
Stamens 4, perfec 
Capsule latttenend linear, compressed parallel to the septum; leaves 
—3-pinnate; calyx small, cup-shaped; corolla long, oe oo wly 
tubular nia 
Capsule loculicidal ; leaves 1-2-pinnate or rarely eee pests 
simple; calyx large; corolla-tube short or long, much widened at the 
mouth :— 
*Capsule not winged, nope or a aaa or compressed 
with sides parallel to the se 7] 
2 hae tubular- meno ts 5-toothed; capsule com- 
pres: Se ¢ecoma. 
Calyx bia or oblong, never equally 5-toothed ; capsule round, 
subquadrangular, or only slightly compressed :— 
Calyx spathaceous, cleft to the base on one side in flower, closed 
in bud ; corolla-tube long or short, cylindric below, eampanulate 
