GENUS I. BIGNONIA. 

 Didynainia Anslosperiiiia. Sex: Spat: 



Deriv. In meiridry of Abbi Bignon, Librarian to Louis XIV. 



Gen. Char. Calyx S-tpothed at tbe margin, rarely entire or 

 5-parted or 2-3-lobed : corolla 2 -lipped or nearly eqiial, 5-cleft : 

 'slameiis four, fei'tile, didynamous, filth sterile : antbers with' gla- 

 brous cells, very often distinct : stigma bilamellate ': capsule with 

 the valves scarcely convex, or flat, partition flat, parallel to the 

 valves : seeds in a single row at, each side of the partition, wing. 

 ed on both sides, wing pellucid : stems frutescent, or trees, erect, 

 sometimes feurticous-scaHdep-t, :, leaves almost, always opposite, pe- 

 tioled, but very various.' " ■ ' 



• . M (1) B. XXtOCARPA. 



Ident. Dec. prod. IX. p. 170.— Roxb. for. Ind. III. p. 108. 

 — Dali. Bomb. flor. p. 169. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1335-6. 



StEC. Char. Arboreous, glabrous : Jeaves bi-tri.-pinnate; pe- 

 tiok sharply-angular, leaflets peopled, ovate or oblong-acuminated, 

 metnbranaceous, reticulately veined : panicle corymbose : branches 

 dichotomous: calyx unequally 5 -toothed : corolla campanulate, 

 shortly tubular: lobes rounded : , capsule , roundTlin,e?.r, incurved, 

 woody, tubercled : flowers white, fragrant. 



TuU Ghaut. Khandeish. Neilgherries, Flowering in August. 



GENUS II. CALOSAIJTHES. 

 Didynamia AnsioBpernila. is'e^. Syst: 



Beriv. From Kalos, beautifiil, and Anthos, a flower. 



GeiSi. Chab. Calyx coriaceous, tubular, trnjieated, , ajfterwarda 

 out as the fruit increases . corolla with a short tube, campanulate 

 throa^, and 6-lobed somewhat 2-lipped limb :' stamens five, fertile, 

 scarcely eiserted, of which two are longer : anthers with cells 

 pendulous from the connectivum : stigma bilamellate : capsule 

 pod-like, very long, compressed, 2-valved, partition parallel to 

 the vajves : seed surrounded with a semicircular, membranaceous 

 wing. 



