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long, crenately crisped, recurved. Stamens 4, didynamous ; filaments 
curved inwards ; anther-cells large, oblong, divaricate. Ovary conical, 
style slender, stigma of 2 rounded lobes. Capsule 1 to 2 feet long, 
about 1 in. broad, flattened-eylindrical, faintly ribbed, septum thickened 
in the middle on both sides. Seeds very many, overlapping in many 
rows, rectangular (with the wings), -5 to -7 in, long, -3 in. broad, wings 
corky; testa membranous ; cotyledons flat, deeply emarginate, the lobes 
nearly orbicular ; radicle short. Clarke in Hook. f. FI. Br. Ind. III. 
379; Trimen FI. Ceyl. III. 282; Koord. & Yal. Bijdr. I. 69. D. 
longissima, K. Sch. in Engl. & Prantl Pflanzenfam. IV. 2b. 240, fig. 92 
B-D. Bignonia spathacea, Linn. f. Suppl. 283. B. longissima, Lour. 
FI. Cochincb. 380 ? Spathodea longiflora, Vent. Choix. n. 40. S. 
Rheedii, Wall. Cat 6516 ; DC. Prod. ' IX. 206 ; Wight Ic. t. 1339 ; 
Bedd. FI. Sylv. CLXVIII. ; Kurz For. FI. II. 234 ; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. II- 
754. S. ? Loureiriana, DC. l.c. 209? S. Diepenhorstii, Miq. l.c. “ Nir 
Pongelion,” Bheede Hort. Mai. VI. t. 29. 
Penang: Curtis 1184. Pebak : Scortechini 1098; Wray 2501. 
Pahang : in mangrove swamps ( Ridley l.c.). Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 
4066; Maingay (K.D.) 1210. — Distrib. Malabar coast of India, 
Ceylon, Burma, Andaman Islands, Malay Archipelago east to New 
Guinea. 
3. Stereospermum, Cham. 
Trees. Leaves opposite, 1-2-pinnate ; leaflets petiolulate, entire or 
sometimes toothed. Flowers in large lax terminal panicles, white 
pink or yellow. Calyx ovoid, open or closed in bud, truncate or 
shortly unequally lobed in flower. Corolla campanulate or funnel- 
shaped ; mouth bilabiate, upper lip 2-, lower 3-cleft ; lobes nearly 
equal, rounded, crisped, toothed or laciniate. Stamens 4, didynamous, 
included fifth rudimentary ; anthers glabrous, cells linear divergent. 
Ovary sessile, elongate, 2-celled ; ovules numerous, 2-seriate in each 
cell. Disk cupular, fleshy. Capsule elongate, terete or somewhat 
angled, loculicidally 2-valved ; septum thick, corky, cylindrical, pitted 
to receive the seeds in alternating cavities. Seeds trigonous, with a 
transverse groove without and a prominent ridge within, which fits 
into a deep pit in the septum ; wings membranous, lying flat upon 
the septum; cotyledons folded, 2-lobed, radicle straight. — Distrib. 
Tropical Asia and Africa. About 12 species. 
Stereospermum fimbriatum, DC. Prod. IX. 211 (1844). A large 
deciduous tree, reaching 70 to 80 feet in height of stem and 1-5 to 3 feet 
in diam. ; bark grey, rough ; branchlets stout, innovations and inflores- 
cence viscid-pubescent. Leaves imparipinnate, 1 to 2 feet long; rachis 
