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5-tootlied ; corolla campanulate, shortly-tubular ; lobes rounded ; 

 capsule round-linear, incurved, woody, tubercled ; flowers white, 

 fragrant. Native name " Kursing." Thul Ghaut; Jowar jungle, 

 near Nagotna ; Parr Ghaut, &c. ; the Dangs in Kandeish. Syn. 

 Tecoma xylocarpa, Don's syst. iv, p 226. An oily substance, 

 distilled from the wood, is powerful in cutaneous diseases. 



2. SPATHODEA, Beauv. 



1. S Falcata, Wall. List No. 6517. — A small tree; leaves 

 unequally pinnate, 2 to 3 pair, oval, rounded, entire, slightly hairy ; 

 racemes terminal, few-flowered ; calyx cylindrical, oblique ; flowers 

 white, about 1 inch long, fragrant ; capsule linear, 1 foot long, 

 variously twisted. Near Nagotna village ; below Kandalla Ghaut ; 

 Duddi; Southern Maratha Country, Law. Syn. Bignonia spatbacea, 

 Linn. Fil. Suppl. 283 ; S Rheedei, Sj'r. syst. ii, 835 ; S longiflora, 

 Pers. Ench. ii, 172. 



2. S Ceispa, Wall. List. No. 6515. — Arboreous; leaves un- 

 equally pinnate ; leaflets 1 to 3 pair ; branchlets and racemes 

 pubescent and velvetty ; leaflets oval-oblong, acuminated at both 

 ends, quite entire ; raceme terminal, few-flowered; corol tube slender 

 elongated ; lobes much curled and crisped ; flowers pure white, 

 fragrant; capsule pod-like, elongated, obtusely-acuminated, pendu- 

 lous. Duddi on the Gutpurba, Law. Syn. Bignonia crispa, 

 Buchanan in Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 103 ; B atrovirens, Uoth. nov. S(). 

 p 284 ; S atrovirens, Spr. syst. ii, 835. 



3. HETEROPHRAGMA, DC. 



L II RoxBURGHii, DC. Prod. 9. — A large timber tree; 

 branches round ; leaves opposite or tern, glabrous, simply pinnated, 

 4 to 5 pair ; leaflets ovate, acute, serrated ; panicle terminal, 

 tomentose, and velvetty ; flowers whitish, with a pink margin ; 

 pod thick, hnear, about a foot long and 2 inches broad, 4-celled ; 

 flowers in March and April. Very common on the Ghauts. Native 

 name " Warns." Bignonia 4-locularis, Roxb. Cor. ii, i. 145; Spa- 

 thodea roxburghii, Spr. s-pst. ii, 825. The wood is serviceable 

 for planks. 



2. Chelonioides, DC. Prod. 9, p 210.— A tree, glabrous; 

 branches round ; leaves unequally pinnated, 4 pair ; leaflets elliptic- 

 cuspidate, acuminate ; panicle terminal, lax, ultimate branchlets, 

 3-flowered ; calyx coriaceous, 2 to 3-lobed, or 5-toothed ; corolla 

 between campanulate and bilabiate, the lobes ciliated; capsule 

 very long, roundish, glabrous. The Ghauts, common ; flowers 

 yellowish, fragrant, apjjear in May and June. Syn. Bignonia 



