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Nat. Order 28. BignoniacecB. — Trees or shrubs, some- 

 times climbing. Leaves opposite, pinnate. Flowers 

 and ovary as in AcanthacecB. 

 Fruits usually elongated like 

 a pod. Seeds usually promi- 

 nently winged. 



Chiefly tropical. Common 

 plants: Indian Cork-tree {Mil- 

 lingtonia hortensis), a tall tree 

 (80 feet), generally planted on 

 road-sides ; parul {Stereosper- 

 miiin suaveolens (fig. 222), a 

 tree 30 to 60 feet high ; at- 

 kapali (Stereospermum chelo- 

 noides), also a tree 30 to 60 feet 

 high ; Oroxylum indicuvi, a 

 tall tree common throughout 

 India, with ternately bipinnate 

 big leaves, and sword-shaped 

 fruits 2 to 3 feet long, 2 to 4 inches broad, and \ inch 

 thick; Tecoma stans Linn, is a scandent garden 

 shrub. 



Nat. Order 29. Pe- 

 daliacece. — Herbs 

 or under- shrubs. 

 Flowers like those 

 of Acanthacece. 

 Seeds wingless. 



A small family 

 distributed in the 



warmer parts of the Fig. 222,— Parul (stereospermum simteolens) 



globe. Common 



plants: til or Sesame or Gingelly {Sesamum indicum), 

 cultivated largely as an oil-seed crop; bag-nakha 

 {MaKtyma dmndra), an American weed called Tiger- 



Fig". z-ix.—Platystemma moloides 

 y, Persistent cotjledon (only leaf). 



( C 945 ) 



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