380 cvii. BiGNONiACB^. (C. B. Clarke.) [DoUchandrone. 



Capsule 12 by | in., valves woody, speckled, smooth. Seeds IJ by ^-^ in., snb- 

 rectangular, wings membranous. — The Calcutta Botanic Garden specimen in Herb. 

 Walllch has the mature leaves, petioles and corymbs softly ashy pilose. As to the 

 synonyms of older authors adduced by Seemann, several are described as hirsute plants; 

 while Signonia spatliacea, Linn, f., is founded on Rheede Sort. Mai. vi. t. 29, which 

 Seemann himself refers to Z>. Ehbedii. 



4. D. falcata, Seem, in Seem. Jfourn. Sot. viii. 381 ; grey pubescent or 

 shortly villous, leaflets 5-7 mostly obtuse, corolla white tube 1-lJ in. 

 slender below, pod much compressed. Bignonia spathacea, Boxh. Cor. PI. 

 ii. 24, t. 144 (excl. capsule), and Fl. Ind. iii. 103. B. atrovirens, Roth Nov. 

 Sp. 284. Spathodea falcata. Wall. Cat. 6517; DC.Prodr.ixWQ; Balz. 

 Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 160 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 71 ; Brand. For. Fl. 350, partly. 

 S. atrovirens, Spreng. Syst. ii. 835. 



Deooan Peninsula ; Mysore and Vellyengry Hills, Wiffht ; Belgaum, Ritchie, 

 &c. 



A tree, 20-50 ft. Leaves 3-6 in.; leaflets \-\\ in., obovate or round elliptic, 

 rarely with a small obtuse point ; petiolule 0, rarely |-j in. Corymhs few- (mostly 

 3-1-) fld., subsessile ; pedicels J in. Calyx J-f in., of the expanded flowers softly 

 grey-pubescent. Corolla nearly as of D. crispa, but the tube hardly ^ in. diam. 

 downwards. Anthers included, cells nearly parallel, difiering much from those of D. 

 crispa ; this may be a sexiial character, but is so in all the examples, as in the figure 

 of Beddome. Capsule (and seeds) nearly as in D. crispa, but more compressed aud 

 usually more curved. 



5. D. Ziawli, Seem, in Seem. Joum. Bot. viii. 380 ; glabrous or innova- 

 tions minutely puberulous, leaflets 6-7 subsessile, corolla white tube 1-1^ in. 

 slender, pod compressed. D. serrulata, Seem. I. c. 383 {as to the Central 

 Indian tree). Spathodea falcata, Brand. For. Fl. 350. S. crispa, Bureau 

 Monogr. Bign. t. 27. 



BoMBAT wd CoNCAN ; iai«. CENTBAii PROVINCES ; JEdgeworth, Dr. Steward, 

 R. Thompson. Rajpctana; Meywar, Dr. Brandis. 



Considered by Dr. Branijis as a glabrous var. of Z). falcata. The leaflets are 

 sessile, often larger than those of D. falcata, and (mostly) very shortly acuminate. 

 The one capsule seen is very nearly straight. The Central Indian example of Edge- 

 worth, referred by Seemann to the Burmese Stereospermum serrulatum, has (as not 

 rarely in D. falcata and D. Lawii) a few obscure teeth to the leaflets. 



6. n. arcuata, Clarke; pubescent or subfloccose, leaflets 9-11 

 roundish elliptic, corolla white tube 1^-2 J in. narrowly, cylindrie. Spatho- 

 dea arcuata, Wight Jc. t. 1340 ; Bedd. For. Man. 169. S. crispa, Balz. & 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 160. 



S. Madeas ; Coimbatore and Ootacamurid, Wight, Beddome. 



Leaves 6-12 in. ; leaflets 2-3 in., obtuse at both eiids, sometimes with a short mucro, 

 floncose-pubescent on both surfaces ; petiolule 0-J in. Cab/n;. 1 in,, floccose-pubescent. 

 Corolla 3 in., mouth 2 iu. diam., lobes crisped crenate. Anthers included, cells nearly 

 parallel. Capsule not seen. — United with B. crispa by Seenoann and Dalzell. 



YI. KETEROX^XRAanKA, DC. 



■Eregs. i«fj?£S.. large, .4-pinnate. Flowers large; panicles terminal, 

 woolly. Calyx ovoid, closed when young, ijrregularly.J=r5-lQbed during 

 flower. Corolla tubula,r-ventrico8e, glabrous or densely tomentose without, 

 rose or yellow ; lobes 5, rounded, subequal. Capsule elongate, cylindrie or 

 compressed, falcate or twisted, locnlicidally 2-valved ; septum flat or 4-angu- 



