496 LXXX. BIGNONIACE^E [Stereosjpermum 



Brandis E. M. tab. 43. Vern. Pared, Centr. Prov. ; Khar sing, Mar. ; Ucli, 

 Kan. ; Pathiri, Tarn. ; Edang Korna, Mai. 



A middle-sized tree, bark grey, heartwood brown, very hard. L. bi- or tri- 

 pinnate, 1-4 ft. long, leaflets glabrous, hard and slightly rough when full grown, 

 2-3 in. long, nearly sessile. El. fragrant, white with a tinge of yellow, in 

 dense compound pubescent panicles. Corolla campanulate from near the base, 

 l|-2 in. long. Capsule 12-30 in. long, a little curved, rough with numerous 

 large irregular hard tubercles, valves 1-li in. broad, woody, dissepiment 

 cylindric, shining, seeds including the wings 1^ by \ in. 



Satpura range. Chanda district. Khandeish Dangs. Western Peninsula. Fl. 

 April, May, when nearly leafless, the fresh foliage about the commencement of the 

 rains. 7. S. hypostictum, Miq. (Sjxithodea amama, A. DC; Brandis F. Fl. 319: 

 Bignonia amcena, Wall. PL As. Ear. t. 183 ; JRadermachera amcena, Seem. Tavoy. 

 Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. .Grown in gardens, glabrous, corolla 2 in. long, 

 white, orange inside, lobes equal crenulate, capsule rust-coloured, pendulous, slender, 

 12-iS in. long, valve~s thin. 



MilHagtonia hortensis, Linn. f. ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 249. — Syn. Bignonia suherosa, 

 Poxb. Cor. PI. t. 214. Believed to be indigenous in Burma (Kurz). Cultivated largely 

 in most parts of India and in other tropical countries. A large tree, youngest shoots 

 and inflorescence slightly pubescent. L. bipinnate, 1-2 ft. long, leaflets ovate, blade 

 1-2, pet. slender, J in. long. Fl. numerous, white, fragrant, corolla-tube 3-4 in. long, 

 slender, cylindrical, widened into a short funnel-shaped mouth, at the base of which 

 the 4 stamens are inserted, lobes 5, nearly equal. Capsule linear, 12 in. long, seeds 

 surrounded on 3 sides by flue transparent wings. 



Mayodendron igneum, Kurz, Prelim. Peport Pegu 1875, App. D. with fig. Vern. 

 Egayit, Upper Burma. Hills between Sitang and Salween, 2-3,000 ft. Myit Kyina, 

 Bhamo, Upper Burma. A middle-sized tree, bark grey, longitudinally wrinkled, young 

 shoots minutely puberulous, 1. anrple, bi-tripinnate, leaflets entire, obliquely ovate- 

 lanceolate, 3—1 in. long, glabrous, glossy. Fl. orange, in short corymbs, mostly from 

 the old wood, appearing together with the young leaves, which come soon after the 

 old 1. fall. Calyx spathaceous, corolla glabrous outside, tubular, widening upwards, 

 lobes equal, very short. Capsule slender, 18-22 by J in., seeds, including the thin 

 transparent wings § by J in. 



Oroxylum indicum, Vent. — Syn. Calosanthes indica, Blume; Wight Ic. t. 1337, Vern. 

 Pliarri, Hind.; Sanna, Oudh ; TotiUa, Nep. ; Taitu, Mar.; Tetu, Kan.; Kyaiing yd, 

 Burm. Subhimalayan tract, from the Jumna eastwards, rare west of the Jumna. 

 Singbhum. Both Peninsulas. — Ceylon, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. China. A 

 small soft-wooded, deciduous, glabrous tree, 1. bipinnate, 3-5 ft. long, leaflets ovate, 

 acuminate, blade 3-8, pet. |-i in. long. Fl. large, fleshy, purplish, with an unpleasant 

 smell, in erect, terminal racemes, peduncles long, stout, rough, pedicels 1 in. long. Calyx 

 coriaceous, persistent, indistinctly toothed, corolla cainpanulate, 2-3 in. long and nearl y 

 as wide at the mouth, stamens 5, all fertile and nearly equal. Capsule flat, 15-30 by 

 2-31 in., dehiscing at the edges, the dissepiments parallel to the valves, seeds imbricate 

 with a "broad transparent wing on three sides, 2-3 in. long, including the wing. 



Order LXXXI. ACANTHACEjE. Gen. PI. ii. 1060. 



Mostly herbs, rarely shrubs or trees, 1. opposite, rarely lobed, stipules 0. El. 

 usually in the axils of bracts, each fl. supported by 2 bracteoles, calyx usually 

 5-lobed or of 5 sepals, corolla as a rule 2-lipped or 5-lobed, lobes imbricate or 

 contorted in bud. Stamens 4 or 2, inserted in the corolla-tube. Ovary free, 

 2-celled, style filiform, bifid, one branch often obsolete. Capsule loculicidal, 

 seeds often clothed with white elastic hairs (best seen when wetted), seated" 

 on hard upcurved acute supports, albumen 0. 



The 1. of most genera here mentioned have in the epidermis of the upper surface 

 numerous conspicuous cystolith cells, usually single and elongated, readily visible as 

 raised lines (in Barleria in pairs). Exceptions are Tliunoergia and Acanthus. Adhatoda 

 vasica has cystolith cells in the tissue of the leaf, not in the epidermis. 

 I. Calyx reduced to an entire or indistinctly crenulated 



ring. Capsule beaked 1. Thunbeegia. 



II. Calyx of 4 sepals, the outer pair larger. 



Corolla 1 -lipped, stamens 4 2. Acanthus. 



Corolla 5-lobed, stamens 2 3. Bableeia. 



