378 cvii. BiGNONiACEiE. (C. B. Clarke.) [Oroxylum. 



O. indicum, Vent. Dee. Gen. Nov. 8; Kurz For. FL ii. 237. 

 Bignonia indica, Linn. Sp. PI. 871 ; Lamk. Dirt. i. 423 ; Boxb. Fl. Ind. 

 iii. 110; Wall. Cat. 6514 ; Bedd. For. Man. 148. B. pentandra, Lour. FL 

 Coehinch. 379. Spattodea indica, Pers. Syn. ii. 173. Oalosanthes indica, 

 Plume Pijd. 760; DC. Prodr. ix. 177; TTiffht Le. t. 1337; Dalz. Sf Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 161 ; Bureau Monogr. Bign. t. 9 ; Brand. For. Fl. Z^7.—Bheede 

 Mort. Mai. i. t. 43. 



Throughout India, alt. 0-3000 ft., from the Himalaya to Ceylon and Malacca, com- 

 mon ; not in the western drier area, but in the Terai west to the Chenab (JBrandis). 

 — DiSTBiB. Malaya, Cochin China, Ara. 



Attains 25-40 ft. (Roxburgh says "one of the tallest trees on the Coromandel 

 coast," concerning which there must be some mistake) ; bark' thick. Leaves 2-4 ft. 

 diam., ternately bipinnate ; leaflets 5 by 3-4 in., acuminate ; petiolule short. Peduncle 

 1 foot, thick J raceme 10 in. ; pedicels J-l in. Calt/x 1 by f in., fleshy. Corolla 

 2i in., fleshy; mouth 2-3i in. diam. Stamens shortly exsert; base of filaments 

 woolly ; fifth filament rather shorter than the other 4 j anther-cells divergent below ; 

 counective with a short mucro. Disc large, fleshy. Style 2i in. ; stigma \ in. wide, 

 of 2 semicircular plates. Capsule 1-3 ft. by 2-3^ in., hardly ^ in. thick, margins 

 somewhat incurved ; valves woody ; septum flat Seeds including the wing attaining 

 3 by If in. (usually smaller^, winged all round except at the base ; those attached on 

 opposite margins of the septum scarcely overlapping. 



Shrubs or small trees, erect or scandent. Leaves usnally opposite, in 

 the 1 Indian species simple, in others compound. Racemes or panicles 

 terminal. Calyx tubular-campanulate, snbequally 5-toothed. Corolla 

 tubular- ventricose, orange or red ; lobes 5, round, subeqiial. CapsTile linear 

 or narrow, loeulieidally 2-valved, somewhat compressed at right angles to 

 the septum. Seeds thinly discoid ; wing hyaline, broad. — Species 24, in the 

 tropics of the whole world, mostly American. 



T. undulata, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 223 ; leaves narrowly oblong 

 entii-e undulate. DC. Prodr. is. 222 ; Dalz. S( Gibs. Bomb. 'Fl. 161 ; 

 Brand. For. Fl. 352 ; Boies. Fl. Orient, iv. 80. T. ? glauca, DC. I. c. 223. 

 Bignonia undulata. Smith Exot. Bot. i. 35, 1. 19 ; Boxb, Fl. Lnd. iii. 101 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 6498. B. glauca, Dene, in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 137, 1. 142. 

 Tecomella nndulata. Seem, in Seem. Journ. Bot. i. 18. 



Westeen India, alt. 0-3000 ft. ; Scinde, Punjab, Guzerat, Bajpntana, extending 

 eastwards to the Jumna. — Distbib. Beloochistau, Arabia. 



A shrub or small tree ; innovations stellately grey-puberulous, otherwise glabrate. 

 Leaves 6 by Ii in. , obtuse ; petiole f in. Corymbs f ew-fld., mostly on shortened 

 lateral branches ; pedicels J-j in. Calyx \ in. ; lobes hardly ^ in., broad, obtuse. 

 Corolla \\ in., orange. Stamens scarcely exsert, glabrous ; anther-cells distinct, 

 pendulous, narrowly oblong. Disc cup-shaped. Stigma spathulate, sub-2-lobed. 

 Capsule 8 by j in., slightly curved ; valves tough, thin. Seeds (including the wing) 

 1 by I in., wing very narrow round the apex of the seed, at its base. 



Y. DOZiXCKAMDRONE, Seem. 



Trees, glabrous or tomentosa Leaves opposite, 1-pinnate. Bacemes or 

 panicles termiual. Calyx in aestivation closed, at flower-time cleft to the base 

 on one side, spathaceous. Corolla-tube long or short ; lobes 5, subequal, 

 round, 'crisped crenate or incised. Capsule elongate, terete or somewhat 

 compressed, loouUcidally 2-valved, sub-4-celled. Seeds thinly discoid, on 



