66. BIGNONlACEif:. 



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7. PAJANELIA. DC. 

 Trees. Leaves large, 1 -pinnate, leaflets numerous. Flowers large, 

 in great terminal panicles. Calyx bell-shaped. Corolla large, ventri- 

 oose, lobes unequal, crisped, tube dark red, lobes yellow. Stamens 

 4i with a rudimentary 5th. Disk annular, white. Ovary 2-celled, 

 Capsule large; oblong, 4-winged. Seeds winged all round. 



P. Rheedii. DC. Prod. IX. 227 ; Fl, Br, L 4. 384 ; Bedd. Fl, Sylv. 

 169. Aminge, K. ; Boundi, M. 



Silhet and Khasia Hills, Pegu, Tenasserim and the Andamans, 

 Malabar, up to 2000 ft. In the moist forests of North Kdnara, along the 

 banks of nalas in the Yellapur taluka. Fl. 0. S. Fr. H. S, A large or 

 small, usually deciduous tree. Wood dark, mottled brownish grey, soft 

 and light. Pores moderate-sized, equally distributed. Medullary rays 

 moderately broad or fine, dark coloured.. Weighs about 30 lbs. to the 

 €ub. ft. Timber not used in K^nara. Flowers very large, filled when 

 young with white mucilage. 



Order 67. ACANTHACEiE. 



Herbs, shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite, simple. Flowers bracteate 

 and 2 bracteolate. Calyx 5 -partite. Corolla 2-lipped or subequally 

 ^-lobed. Stamens 4-2, on the corolla-tube. Ovary superior, 2-celled ; 

 style filiform, notched or bifid ; ovules 1 or more in each cell. Capsule 

 loeulicidalj often elastically dehiscent. Seeds generally seated on 

 retinacula and often clothed with elastic hairs, seen when wetted ; 

 albumen 0, radicle next the triium. 



Stamens usually 4. 



Corolla 5-lobed, not lipped. 



Climbing shrubs. Anther-cells parallel, oUique, 



spurred or at the base, Retinacula ... 1. Thttnbeegia, 

 Erect shrubs. Anther-cells parallel, not spurred 



at the base. Seeds on retinacula 2. Steobilanthes. 



Oorolla very deeply, 2-lipped 3. Calacanthus, 



Corolla 1-lipped, the other lip obsolete 4. Acanthus* 



Stamens 2 ; Anther-cells one higher than the other, 

 appendaged at the base or muticous. 



Corolla-tube short, 2-lipped, lips subequal. 



Anther-cells obtuse with a white basal append- 

 age 5. JtjsticiA, 



Anther-cells acute, minutely tailed at the base . 6. Adhatoda, 

 Corolla-tube long, 2-lipped, lips very unequal. 



Anther-cells muticous 7. RHiNACANTHUfit. 



1. THUNBERGIA, Linn. f. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves cordate^ angular. Flowers in axillary, 

 bracteate racemes. Calyx an entire or toothed ring, 2 bracteolate. 

 Corolla curved^ ventricose with 5 subequal lobes. Anther-cells ciliata. 

 Ovary 2-celled, 2-ovuled. Disk thick, surrounding the ovary. Capsule 

 globular, suddenly beaked, 2-4-seeded at the base. Seeds 2 in each 

 ce 11, ovoid or dorsally compressed, not hairy,, base plane or excavate,, 

 f unicle minute or conic. 



