SPATHODEA FALCATA. (Nat. order Bignoniacefe.) 



S'PATHODEA. Beauv. DO. Prod, ix, 203.— GEN. CHAR. Calyx spathaceous closed when young at length longitudinally split, then tootLec! 

 or entire, corol somewhat infundibuliform, limb 5 cleft slightly unequal, stamens 4 didynamous with a fifth sterile, anthers with the cells separate, stigma 

 bilamellate, capsule 2-celled loculicidally dehiscing, partition contrary corky or coriaceous, seeds corky membranaceously winged, attached to the partition 

 not immersed ie gits. Trees, leaves opposite rarely alternate, simple, conjugate digitate or unequally pinnate. 



SPATHODEA FALCATA. (Wall.) A small tree, truuk very irregular in size and shape, bark light ash-colored, young 

 shoots covered with whitish-down, leaves opposite and alternate unequally pinnate, 3-6 inches long by l|-2 broad, leaflets opposite 

 2-3 pairs with a terminal odd one nearly orbicular often very refuse at the apes entire slightly downy short petioled from 1 to 3 inches 

 both, ways, racemes about as long as the leaves few flowered, flowers white pretty large, calyx a spathe about grds open on the convex 

 side, corol tube longer than the calys, cylindric border about \ inch across, 5 parted divisions flat equal oblong, stamens as in the genus 

 with a fifth, sterile one sometimes present, stigma 2-lobed and capsule linear about 8-12 inches long pendulous twisted in various forms, 

 Wall. List iVo. 6517. Bignonia spathacea, Boxb. FL Ind. iii, p. 103. 



A small or middling sized tree common in most of the forests in the Madras Presidency, in Mysore and Bombay, but not found 

 s?i Ceylon or Birma; it is called Wodi in Teligoo. The tm&er is light colored, strong and serviceable, and much used by the natives jor 

 agricultural purposes, building, &c. 



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