230 BIGNONIACER. [ Stereospermum. 
Leaflets only about an inch long, serrulate ; septum of capsule 
compress : ‘ - ‘ ‘i R : . . S&S. serrulatum. 
X Younger parts and inflorescences variously pubescent. 
Flowers pale lilac or bluish white with dark-purple veins ; inflores- 
cence and calyx simply pubescen ‘ : . . - S. neuranthum. 
Flowers 2-lipped, uniformly lilac or purple, the lobes crenulate- 
undul i 
ate ; inflorescence viscid-pubescent Z ‘ ‘ . S. suaveolens. 
Flowers funnel-shaped, uniformly pale lilac, the lobes long-fim- 
briate ; inflorescence glandular-pubescent . : A . S&S. finbriatum. 
1. St. chelonioides, DC. ; Bedd. Sylv. Madr., t. 72 ; Brand. For. 
Fl. 352.—Tha-khwot-hpo.—An evergreen (?) tree (40—60 + 15—304 
4—5), all parts glabrous; leaves unpaired-pinnate, 1-14 ft. long, 
with a striate rachis channelled above ; leaflets in 4 to 5 pairs with 
a long-petioluled odd one, elliptically lanceolate to elliptical, acute 
at the somewhat oblique base, on a slender petiolule 3-5 lin. long, 
2-3 in, long, long and slenderly acuminate, chartaceous, glabrous, 
entire, or while young sometimes serrate; flowers middling-sized, 
yellow, purplish brown on the outside of the tube, on 2-4 lin. long 
glabrous pedicels minutely 2-bracted towards the apex, forming an 
ample, lax, glabrous panicle at the end of the ‘branchlets; calyx 
about 3 lin. long, smooth, shortly 3-lobed, the broader lobe more oF 
less distinctly 2-toothed; corolla about an inch long, curved, 2- 
ped, orange at the throat, the lobes crispate and wrinkled, the 
tube inside pilose ; capsules elongate-linear, compressed 4-angular, 
3-1 ft. long, glabrous ; seeds thick, with diverging, concave, mem- 
branous pellucid wings, 
Has.—Rather frequent in the mixed, especially the lower mixed, forests 
from Chittagong and Ava down to Pegu.—F. begin. and close of B.S. ; Fr. 
June-July and C.S.—l.—SS.=SiS. All. 
Remarxs.—Wood 
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elastic and durable, soft, takes good Used in house-buil 
rous; flowers unknown ; capsule pod-like, compressed, 2 ft. long, — 
glabrous ; seeds in a single row along the edges of the thick, some 
3. St. neuranthum, Kz.—Tzan-day.—A tree (40-—60+12— — 
30+ 3—6), shedding leaves in H.S., Ke younger parts softly pubes: 
ighly orange-yellow-coloured, close- and even-grained, 
polish. ing. 
Sea en ores rey ea 
cent ; bark 4 an in. thick, grey, rough ; cut dry, pale-coloured ; leave 
