om 
Stereospermum.] BIGNONIACER. 231 
softly pubescent; leaflets in 3 or 2 pairs with a long-petioluled odd 
one, acute or obtuse at the somewhat unequal base, on a strong 1-2 
lin. long petiolule, 2-4 sometimes 5-6 in. long, bluntish to bluntish 
apiculate, entire, rigidly chartaceous, while young greyish tomentose 
beneath, soon turning roughish and shortly puberulous like the some- 
what wrinkled upper surface ; flowers conspicuous, very pale lilac or 
bluish white, with dark-purple veins, on 4-7 lin. long pubescent 
pedicels 2 bracteoled towards the apex, forming a rather short, 
corymb-like, peduncled, pubescent panicle at the end of the branch- 
lets; calyx about 4 lin. long, shortly. 4-lobed, pubescent; corolla 
campanulate-funnel-shaped, somewhat curved, puberulous, the lo 
somewhat waved-crispate ; capsules elongate-linear, curved, cylin- 
drically 4-gonous, 1-14 ft. long, glabrous; seeds and septum as in 
St. chelonioides. 
Has.—Common in the lower and upper mixed forests of the Pegu Yomah.— 
Fl. Apr. ; Fr, C.S.—l.—SS.=Si8. All. 
EMARKS.—Wood pale-greyish or reddish brown, very close-grained, fibrous, 
rather heavy, tolerably soft.— O'=83-36 pd. 
4. St. suaveolens, DC.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 149; Brand. For. 
Fl. 351.—A tree (30—40 + 6—12+3—5), shedding leaves in H.S., 
the younger parts covered with a viscid pubescence ; leaves unpaired- 
pinnate, 1-11 ft. long ; leaflets in 3-4 pairs witha long-petioluled odd 
one, ovate to elliptically ovate, on a short, thick, shortly pubescent 
petiolule, rounded or obtuse at the base, 2-4 in. long, shortly and 
bluntish acuminate, entire, rigidly chartaceous, while young mem- 
branous and pubescent, adult scabrous above and very shortly 
1-14 ft. long, cylindrical, with 4 prominent lines, glabrous and 
3 see 
Hap.— i Martaban.—Fl. Apr.—l.— 
a in the Eng forests of aban pr 
REMARKs.—Wood dark-coloured, strong. 
5. St. fimbriatum, DC.—Than-that.—A tree (70—80+30— 
50+ 6—8), shedding leaves during H.S., the youn ] 
viscid-pubescent ; bark grey, about an inch thick, lamellate-rough, 
shortly longitudinally fissured ; cut pale-coloured ; leaves unpaired- 
_ bynate, while young very like those of the preceding species and 
iy . 
ly viscid-pubescent; leaflets of young leaves (old ones not 
