377 
Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
FI. II. 237 ; Clarke in Hook. f. FI. Br. Ind. IV. 378 ; Trimen FI. Ceyl. 
III. 281 ; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. I. 66 ; Cooke Bomb. FI. II. 327 ; Prain 
Beng. Plants II. 787. Bignonia indica, Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 625 ; 
Lamk Diet. I. 423 ; Boxb. FI. Ind. III. 110 ; Wall. Cat. 6514. 
B. pentandra, Lour. FI. Cochinch. 379. Spathodea indica, Pers. Syn. 
II. 173. Calosantlies indica, Blume Bijdr. 760; DC. Prod. IX. 177; 
Wight Ic. t. 1337 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FI. 161 ; Bureau Monog. Bign. 
(1864) t. 9 ; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. II. 752 ; Brandis For. FI. 347. “ Palega 
pajaneli,” Rheede Hort. Mai. I. t. 43. 
Penang : Curtis 983. Perak : Scortechini 1613 ; King’s Collector 
7033. Pahang : common on the banks of the river from Pekan up, 
flowers dull brownish-purple (Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. 2nd Ser. III. 
326). Malacca: Maingay (K.D.) 1213. — Distrib. India, Ceylon, 
Burma, Sumatra ( Forbes 1284), Java, and east to Cochin China. 
2. Dolichandrone, Fenzl. 
Trees. Leaves opposite, pinnate, leaflets entire or toothed. Flowers 
in terminal racemes or panicles, few, large. Calyx spathaceous, cleft 
to the base down the front, caducous. Corolla-tube long or short, 
inflated above ; lobes 5, nearly equal, crisped on the margin. Stamens 
4, didynamous, included ; anthers glabrous, the cells oblong, at first 
parallel, afterwards divergent. Disk annular, cushion-like. Ovary 
sessile ; ovules numerous, usually many-seriate. Capsule elongate, 
terete or somewhat compressed, straight or incurved, loculicidally 
2-valved, the septum often thickened and making 4 spurious cells. 
Seeds 1 to oo-seriate on the margins of the septum, much compressed, 
the wing thickened or hyaline. — Distrib. Tropical Africa, Asia, and 
Australia, about 15 species. 
Dolichandrone Rheedii, Seem. Journ. Bot. VIII. 380 (1870). A 
deciduous tree reaching 40 to 50 feet in height of stem ; branchlets stout, 
marked with prominent leaf-scars, innovations glabrous. Leaves 
imparipinnate, 9 to 12 in. long, leaflets 2 to 4 pairs, with an end 
one, rachis slender ; side leaflets rhomboid, unequal at base, acuminate 
at apex, margin entire or with few distant serratures, glabrous on 
both surfaces, 3 to 4 in. long, 1-5 to 2-5 in. broad, main-nerves 6 to 7 
pairs, petiolule slender, articulate at base, - 3 to - 5 in. long ; end leaflet 
similar, but equal at base ; all nearly black when dry. Flowers few, 
usually 1 to 4 in a short terminal corymbose raceme ; pedicels glabrous, 
1 to 1-5 in. long. Calyx-tube closed in bud and beaked, spathaceous 
in flower, 1-5 in. long. Corolla white, tubular-funnel-shaped, 4 to 
7 in. long ; tube slender at first, then gradually expanding ; lobes 1 in. 
