384 cvii. BiGNONiACEJi. (C. B. Clarke.) \_Stereospermum. 



8i/lv. t. 70 ; Balz. Sf Gils. Bomb. Fl. 159. Tecoma xylocarpa, G. Don Gen. 

 Syst. iv. 225. Spathodea xylooarpa, Brand. For. Fl. 349, t. 43. 



Deccan Pbninsuia ; common, extending north to the Satpnra Range, JBrandis. 



&. tree, 30-60 ft. ; innovations pubescent. Leaves 1-4 ft. ; leaflets 3 by 1^ in. , 

 subseasile. Panicle somewhat rigid, erect. Calyx J-f in., pubescent or matare 

 glabrate ; lobes 3-5, very short, broad. Corolla ventricose from near the base, sub- 

 glabrous ; lobes round, crisped. Filaments hairy below. Capsule 12-30 by \-\\ in., 

 glabrous, tubercular. Seeds (including the wings) 1^ by ^ in., thinly discoid. 



8. S. bypostictum, Miq^. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 565 ; glabrous, leaflets 

 oblong or elliptic actimiiiate entire, panicles compound branches slender, 

 corolla 2 in., pod linear very slender not woody smooth. Spathodea gigantea, 

 Blume Bijd. 761 ; BG. Prodr. ix. 207. S. amoena, A. DC. Prodr. ix. 208; 

 Brand. For. Fl. 349. S. Lobbii, Teys. S( Binnend. in Nat. Tidsch. xxv. 

 413. Bignonia amoena. Wall. Cat. 6512, and PI. As. Bar. ii. 78, t. 183. 

 Lagaropyxis gigantea, Miq. in Ann. Jifus. Lugd. i. 198. Radermachera 

 amoena, Seem, in Seem. Journ. Bot. viii. 146 ; Furz For. Fl. ii. 232. E. 

 gigantea & Lobbii, M.i<i. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. iii. 250. 



Tatot ; Wallieh. MALACCA and Singapoke ; Griffith, Maingay. — Disteib. 

 Java, Sumatra. 



Attaining 80 ft. Leaves 2-piunate (and ex Kurz 3-pinnate) ; leaflets 5 by 

 2 in. ; petiolule \ in. Calyx ^-^ in., closed in the bud, in flower shortly 2-lipped or 

 subspathaceous. CoroZ^a glabrous, white, tube rose ; lobes crenulate, hardly crisped. 

 Capsule 15 by \ in. ; valves thin, tough. Seeds (including the wings) j by \-^ in., 

 thinly discoid. 



9. S. ? G-liorta, Clarke; glabrous or innovations pnberulous, leaflets 

 sessile elliptic acute, partial raohises narrowly winged, corolla 2 in. elon- 

 gate tubular lobes round subentire. Bignonia Gborta, Mam. in Wall. 

 Cat. 6510 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 167. 



" Deviduba ; '' Samilton. 



Leaves opposite, bipinnate ; leaflets 2 by | in., unequal-sided, subsessile, entire. 

 Peduncle terminal ; panicle many-fld., branches slender ; pedicels J-J in., subfascicled. 

 Coilya! J in., campanulate ; lobes 4-5, short, triangular. Corolla broadly eylindric, 

 slightly wider upwards, glabrous; mouth hardly 1 in. diam. Stemen* 4, didynamous ; 

 anther-cells narrowly oblong, separate, divaricate. Capsule not seen. 



IX. PAJANEI.IA., DC. 



A large tree, glabrous except the corolla. Leaves large, 1-pinnate; 

 leaflets numerous, entire. Flowers large in terminal, thyrsoid panicles. 

 Calyx large, ovoid, closed in the bud, in flower ventricose-campanulate, 

 5-fid. Corolla large, tubular-veatricose ; lobes 5, crisped. Capsule large, 

 narrowly oblong, winged, compressed, loculicidally 2-valved. Seeds com- 

 pressed, with a membranous wing on each side. 



P. Rheedii, DC. Prod/r. ix. 227, excl. syn. Lour. Sf Pers.; Wight 

 Ic. tt. 1343-4 ; Bureau Monogr. Bign. t. 20 ; Bedd. For. Man. 169. Big- 

 nonia indica var. /3, Linn. Sp. PL 871. B. Pajanelia, ILam. in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xiii. 316. B. longifolia, Willd. Sp. PI. iii. 306. B. multi- 

 iuga, Wall. Cat. 6503, and PI. As. Bar. i. 81, tt. 95, 96. Payamelia multi- 

 juga, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 227. 



SiiHET and Khasia Hilis ; Wallieh, Griffith. Pestt, Tehasseeim, and 

 AkdAMANS ; Kurz. Malaeab, common up to 20U0 f^., Seddome, &c. 



A tree, 30-60 ft. Leaves 1^-3 ft. j leaflets 19-25, 3-8 in., elliptic, acuminate, 



