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8537. Negri Sembilan : Goodenough 1860. Pahang : Bidley l.c. — 
Distbib. Burma ( Lohh ), Sumatra ( Foi'bcs 2663, 2693), Java, Borneo 
( Beccari 811). 
2. Radermachera amjsna, Seem. Journ. Bot. VIII. 146 (1870). A 
very tall tree, reaching 80 feet in height, all parts glabrous ; branches 
thick, with prominent leaf-scars. Leaves 2-3-pinnate, apparently 2 feet 
long or longer, the lower pinnae only again divided, the upper ones simply 
pinnate ; rachis smooth, thick, swollen and articulate at the nodes, 
enlarged at foot ; petiole about 6 in. long, all joints easily separating 
when dry : leaflets oblong-lanceolate when young, elliptic-oblong when 
old, shortly and abruptly blunt-acuminate at apex, rounded or attenuate 
at base and slightly decurrent, glabrous, entire, coriaceous, 4 to 6 in. 
long, 2 to 3 in. broad; midrib thick, impressed above, main-nerves 
about 10 pairs, joined at about '25 in. from the margin in a looped 
nerve, secondary nerves alternate with the main-nerves, reticulations 
obscure ; petiolules ‘4 or ’5 in. long, channelled above by the decurrent 
margins of the blade. Panicles much and usually triehotomously 
branched, rachis terete, upper branches channelled ; peduncle about 
5 in. long ; pedicels slender ; bracteoles minute, rounded ; flowers 
white, tinted with pink outside and with yellow streaks within , the 
calyx dark red. Calyx in bud closed, in flower 2-lipped, the lips bluntly 
apiculate; tube and lobes equal, -3 in. long, glabrous, deciduous. 
Corolla-tube shortly cylindric at first for '2 to - 3 in. long, then cam- 
panulate, glabrous; lobes nearly equal, rounded, crenulate on the 
margins, -2 to -3 in. long. Stamens 4, with an abortive fifth ; filaments 
thickened and glandular-hairy below, slender and glabrous above ; 
anther-cells linear, curved, divaricate, the connective prominently 
apiculate. Disk cupular, glabrous. Ovary oblong, flattened; style 
slender, as long as tube ; stigma bilobed, lobes lanceolate , cells 2, 
ovules very many. Capsule slender, torulose, 12 to 18 in. long, 3 in. 
broad ; valves thin, chartaceous, flattened after dehiscence and then 
■25 in. broad, keeled on the back ; septum cylindric, spongy, speedily 
caducous, bearing on each border a row of small seeds. Seeds (with 
wings) '75 in. long, *1 to '15 in. broad, wings hyaline, rounded , testa 
membranous ; cotyledons flat, oblong, longer than broad ; radicle 
minute. Ivurz Bor. FI. II. 232. 11. gigantea and B. Lobbii , Miq. in 
Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. III. 250. Spathodea amana, DC. Prod. IX. 208. 
S. Lobbii, Teys. & Binn. in Nat. Tijdsclr. XXV. 413. Spathodea 
gigantea, Bl. Bijdr. 761 ; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. I. 755 ; DC. l.c. 207. 
Bignonia amcena, Wall. Cat. 6512 and PI. As. Rar. II. 78. t. 183. 
Lagaropyxis gigantea, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. I. 198. Stercospermum 
hypostictum, Clarke in Hook. f. FI. Br. Ind. IV. 384; Koord. & Yal. 
Bijdr. I. 72. 
