Tecoma.] LIX. BIGNONIACE^. 353 



sometimes oboyate-oblong, entire, blade 2-4 in., petiole 1 in. long. Flowers 

 very large, bright orange-coloured, inodorous, 5-10, in short corymbs at 

 the ends of short lateral branchlets. Corolla campanulate, 2 in. across. 

 Ovary surrounded by a cup-shaped disc. Capsule curved, 6-8 in. long. 

 (Seemann separates Tecomella from Tecoma by simple leaves, and Bui-eau, 

 1. c. 53, agrees with him. The cup-shaped disc is a remarkable character 

 of this species.) 



Low hills of Sindh and Beluchistan. Trans-Indus territory, asoendinfe in the 

 Suliman range to 3000, at times to 4600 ft. Panjab Salt range, Siwalik tract, 

 extending eastward to the Jumna. Occasionally in the plains of the Panjab, 

 near Delhi, Cawnpore, in Bandelkhand, Eajputana, Guzerat, and in one place 

 in Khandeish (Graham Bombay, 124).— Arabia. Grown in gardens in Calcutta 

 and Bombay. Evergreen or nearly so in North India, the leaves being renewed 

 in Jan. and Feb. The leaves vary exceedingly in size and shape. In full 

 bloom in March, April, when the tree is a most beautiful sight, especially on 

 the north-west Panjab frontier. Easily raised from seed and cuttings. Cop- 

 pices well. Fruit ripens May-July. Where protected grows into a handsome 

 tree, 30-40 ft. high, with a stem 12-15 ft. clear, and 5-8 ft. girth, with a fine, 

 rounded, rather open crownj extremities of branches drooping. Generally only 

 a stiff shrub, 8-10 ft. high. Twigs grey, bark of stem J-i in. thick, reddish 

 brown, or dark grey, corky, rough with shallow longitudinaffurrows, and ridges 

 between, crossed by short, shallow, transverse cracks, becoming scurfy by age 

 and peeUng off. Heartwood dark greyish-brown, often mottled with white. 

 Medullar rays fine, whitish, pores surrounded by patches of whitish tissue. 

 Close- and fine-grained, hard, 44 lb. per cub. ft. Works easily, takes a beauti- 

 ful polish, tough, strong and durable. Highly prized for furniture, carving- work, 

 and agricultural implements. The leaves are greedily browsed by cattle. 



Order LX. VERBENACE-ffi, 



Herbs, shrubs or trees. Leaves simple or digitate, opposite, whorled 

 or rarely alternate, without stipules. Flowers irregular, rarely regular. 

 Calyx persistent, gamosepalous, often enlarged in fruit. CoroUa hypogy- 

 nous, gamopetalous, lobes usually 4 or 5, more or less 2-lipped, imbri- 

 cate in bud. Stamens inserted in the corolla-tube, usually 4, nearly equal 

 or one pair longer, and when the coroUa is regular, as many as lobes and 

 alternating with them ; anthers 2-ceUed, the cells usually parallel and 

 opening longitudinally. Ovary not lobed, or but slightly 4-lobed, 2- or 

 4-celled, 1 ovule in each cell ; style terminal, usually with 2 short stig- 

 matic lobes. Fruit dry or fleshy, indehiscent, or separating into 2 or 4 

 segments nuts or pyrenes : seeds few, in the Indian species without albu- 

 men ; embryo straight with thick cotyledons and an inferior radicle. — 

 Eoyle lU. 298; Wight 111. ii. 212. 



Fruit a hard bony 1-4-celled endocarp, surrounded hy a spongy 

 pericarp, enclosed in an enlarged and inflated calyx ; corolla- 

 tube short ; leaves entire 1. Teotona. 



Fruit a dry or fleshy drupe, the entire fruit separating into 2 or 

 4 pyrenes, supported by an enlarged and often succulent 

 calyx; corolla- tube slender, oylindric ; leaves simple . 2. CLERODENDnoN. 



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