256 



66. BlGNONIACE^. 



[3fillmfjftoma* 



StameDS 4 ; anthers 1-celled, the other cell reduced to a small hook. 

 Capsule flat, linear, dehiscing at the edges. Seeds with a broad 

 hyaline wing. 



M. hortensis. Linn. f. Siippl. 291 ; Fl. Br. I. 4. 377 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 

 249; Brandis For. Fl. 347 ; Wight. 111. 101. Nimi-chamheli, ahas-nimb, M. 



Cultivated along roadsides and in parks and gardens throughout the 

 presidency. Fl. Aug.-Sept,, also during the cold weather in the Konkan. 

 Indigenous in the M alay Archipelago, and the tropical forests of Burma 

 from Ava to Tenasserim, perhaps wild in Central India, on the Godavari. 

 A large tree. Wood soft, yellowish. Pores small numerous. Med. rays 

 fine. Weighs about 40 lbs. to the cub. ft. Does not set fruit in Western 

 India. 



3. TECOMA,Juss. 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves simple or pinnate. Flowers in 

 terminal racemes or panicles. Calyx campanulate, 5 -toothed. Corolla 

 tubular-ventricose, lobes 5. Stamens glabrous, inserted in the lower 

 part of the corolla-tube; anthers 2-celled. Ovary 2-celled on the 

 annular disk. Capsule linear, loculicidally 2-valved, somewhat com- 

 pressed at right angles to the septum. Seeds flat, imbricate with a 

 thin, membranous wing. 



Leaves simple 1. 7^. undulata. 



Leaves compound ... 2, T. Stans. 



1. T. undulata, G. Don. Gen. Syst. lY. 223 ; Fl. Br. I. 4. 378 ; Dalz. 

 & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 161; Brandis For. Fl. 352. Lohuri, lohero, Sind.; 

 Makta rohida, M. 



Western India, alt. — 3000 ft. ; Sind, Punjab, Eajputana, extending 

 eastwards to the Jumna. In Sind and Guzerat, planted in gardens at 

 Bombay. Fl. Mch.-Apl. Fr. May- July. A shrub or small tree. Wood 

 grey or yellowish-brown, close-grained, mottled, tough, strong and 

 durable. Pores small and moderate sized, enclosed in small round 

 patches of whitish tissue, often arranged in concentric lines. Med. rays 

 fine and moderately broad. Weighs about 60 lbs. to the cub. ft. Used 

 for furniture, carving and agricultural implements. 



2. T. stans, Spreng. Syst. 2. 834 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 55. 



In gardens, and run wild in the Konkan and North K^nara. Fl. R. 

 and 0. seasons. Corolla yellow. A native of South America. 



4. DOLICHAN DRONE, Seem. 



Trees. Leaves 1-pinnate. Flowers in racemes or terminal panicles. 

 Calyx spathaceous, circumciss-deciduous. Corolla tubular, 5-lobed ; 

 lobes imbricate in bud, crisped, crenate or incised. Stamens didyna- 

 mous, 4, with a rudimentary 5th ; anther-cells diverging. Ovary 



