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(1) F. MUITIJUGA. (Def.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. IX.."^. 227. 

 ' Syn. Bignonia multijugaj Wall. PI. As^ Ear. I. p. 81. — B. 

 Pajanelia, Ham. in trans. Linn. Soc. 13. p. 316.— B. Indica, Lour. 

 0och.^~B. longifolia, Witld. — Spathodea Indicaj Bers. 



Engrav. Wall. 1. c. t. 95 & 96. 



SpEf . Char. Large tree : leaves opposite, unequally pinnate, 

 iP-12 pair of pinnae, petiole sonlewhat 4-cornered, leaflets quite 

 entire, half-cordate, acuminate : thyrse panicled, erect, many-flow- 

 ered : calyx somewhat pvdyeraceous externally, obscurely 3-Hpped ; 

 corolla lurid purple, white within, bes^t with hairs outside. 



Silhet. ■ ■ , : 



(2) P. Rheepii. (2J. W.y 



Ident. Wight's Icon. vol. IV. 



'J^ngray. Wall. 1. c. t. 1 343-4.-r:TRheede, Mai. I. t. 44, 



Spec. Char. Arboreous : leaves unequally pinnate, leaSets 

 unequal sided, acuminate : calyx campanulate, 5-lobed, lobes emar- 

 ginate at the points : corolla campanulate,' sub-bilabiate, 5-lobed, 

 lobes dilated and crisp on the outer margin, furnished on the edges 

 with a line of dense wbblly tomentum externally,' tube glabrous, 

 limb pubescent : longer stamens connivent : ' capsule -12-15 inches 

 long, wingedi cuspidate: seed orbicular, compressed, winged. 



Malabar, not unfrequent in the jungles between Cojmbatore a^id 

 Paulg^iaup, flowerii?g iji |uly »nd August, 



ORDER CXII. FEDALIACEiE. 



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Calyx equally 5-lobed: corolla monopet^lous, . hypogynoua, 

 irregular, throat ventricpse, limb bilabiate, the limb subvalvate 

 in aestivation : disk hypogynous, fleshy, or sometimes glandu- 

 lar: stamens included within the tube, didynamous, with the 

 .rudiment of a fifth : anth,ers adn^te, ^celled : connective airti- 

 culated with the filament, slightly prolonged beyond the cells, 

 glandular at the point: ovary seated on a glandular disk, 

 fprmesd of 2 c^pellary leaves, anterior and po,sterioy. as regards 

 the axis, at first 1 -celled, afterwards divided into 2, 4 or 6 

 Bpurious cells : style 1, simple: stigma bilamellate: fruit cap- 

 sular ()r drupaceous, dehisp^Qt or in^^h^scent, few or many- 



