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Spec. Char. Large tree: branches round: leaves opposite or 

 tern, glabrous, simply pinnated, 4-5 pair, leaflets ovate, acute, ser- 

 rated :' panicle terminal, tomentose, and velvety : flowers whitish, 

 with a pink margin : pod thick,., linear, about a foot long and 2 

 inches broad, 4-celled, 



Circar mountains. S, Mahratta country. Travancore. Flow- 

 ering in the hot, season. 



GENUS Vi. STERBOSPERMTJM. 

 Didynamia Ansiospei-inia. Sex:S]/si' 



Deriv. From Stereos, hard, and Sperma, seed. 



Gen. Chae. Calyx' coriaceous, cup-shaped, cylindric, subtrun. 

 cate, obtusely 5-toothed : corolla with a straight campannlata 

 tube, limb 2-lipped, roundly 5-lobed : four stamens 'fertile,'^ the 

 fifth sterile, small : anthers 2-lobed, naked : disk fleshy, 5-lobed : 

 ovary cylindric : stigma bilamellate : capsule obtusely 4-coriieired 

 or cylindriei elongated, membranaceous, partition contrary to tho 

 valves, very cellular and corky, thick : seeds bony, immersed ia 

 the flesh of the partition, or if 2-eelled, laterally ; very thinly 

 winged. 



(1) S. CHEfONOIDES. (DeQ.) 



Ident, Dec. prod. IX. p. 110. 



Syn. Bignonia chelonoides, Linn. f. suppl, — Roxb. fior. Ind. 

 III. p. 106. •' 



Engrav. Rheede Mai. 6. t. 26.— Wight's Icon. t. 1341. 



Spec Char. Arboreous, glabrous : branches terete: leaves 

 unequally pinnate, 4-paired : leaflets elliptic, cuspidato-acuminate : 

 panicles terminal, loose, the extreme branchlets 3-flowered : calyx 

 coriaceous, 2-3-lobed or toothed : corolla campaniilate-bilal)iate, 

 ciliate : capsule very long, roundish,, glabrous, with a spongy sep- 

 tum : flowers fragrant, yellow : capsulps a foot or more in length. 



Ghauts. Coromandel. Silhet. Assam. Flowering in May 

 'itnd June. 



(2) S. SUAVEOtENS. (Dec.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. IX. p. 311. 



Syn. Bignonia suaveolens, i?oa;6.— Tecoma suaveolens, G. Don. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1342. 



Spec Char. Arboreous :Ueave3 unequally pinnate, 2-4 pairs: 

 leaflets oval, acuminate, entire : panicles terminal, loose, subbra- 

 chiate ; calyx 5-toothed : corolla hairy or woolly, capsule siliqui- 



