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transverse, quadrangular in section. Seeds exceedingly numerous, in 
many rows and imbricating, curved; furnished at either end with a 
very thin hyaline wing, seeds and wing reaching 1-5 in. long and -5 in. 
broad ; testa membranous ; cotyledons obcordate, flat ; radicle slender. 
Bureau Monog. Bign. t. 20 ; Kurz For. FI. II. 237. P. Bheedii, Wight 
Ic. tt. 1343-4 ; Clarke in Hook. f. FI. Br. Ind. III. 384 ; Bedd. FI. Sylv. 
CLXIX. ; Cooke Bomb. FI. II. 333 ; Prain Beng. Plants II. 790. 
Bignonia indica, var. /3 Linn. Sp. PL 871 ; Lour. FI. Cochinch. 460. 
B. Pajanelia, Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII. 316. B. longifolia, 
Willd. Sp. PI. III. 306; K. Sch. in Engl. & Prantl Pflanzenfam. IV. 3b, 
244. B. multijuga, Wall. Cat. 6503 and PI. As. Ear. 1. 81, tt. 95, 96. 
“ Pajaneli,” Bheede Hort. Mai. I. 44. 
Penang: Jack. Perak: Scortcchini ; King’s Collector 2616,3958. 
— Distrib. Eastern Bengal, Burma, Andaman Islands, Malabar coast. 
6. Diplanthera, Banks & Solander. 
Trees, more or less hairy. Leaves undivided, large, opposite or 
whorled. Floivers large, yellow, in short thick panicles among the 
uppermost leaves, the primary branches of the panicles shortly ver- 
ticillate and densely cyme-bearing. Calyx eampanulate, oblong and 
closed when young, with 2 to 5 valvate lobes connivent in flower and 
sometimes sub-bilabiate. Corolla tubular-ventricose ; lobes 5, rounded, 
sub-equal. Stamens 4, didynamous, exsert ; filaments involute in bud ; 
anthers glabrous ; cells linear, at first parallel, afterwards divaricate. 
Disk thick, pulvinate. Ovary sub-sessile, ovules densely many-seriate. 
Capsule oblong-fusiform, woody, loculicidally 2-valved ; septum flat, 
thick. Seeds many-seriate, between the margins of the septum, flattened, 
with a broad hyaline wing. — Distrib. From the Malay Peninsula to 
New Caledonia and Australia : about 6 species. 
Diplanthera bancana, Scheffer in Nat. Tijdschr. XXXI. 334 (1870). 
A lofty tree ; branches stout ; branchlets pale brown, pubescent, marked 
with lenticels and prominent leaf-scars. Leaves chartaceous, undivided, 
ovate, obtuse at apex, cordate at base; margins irregularly undulate, 
furnished with 1 to 2 glandular pits on the upper surface at the inser- 
tion of the petiole ; both surfaces slightly pubescent, especially beneath 
and on the nerves ; 8 to 13 in. long, 5 to 8 in. broad ; midrib stout, 
main-nerves 10 to 12 pairs, the lowest 3 close together and spreading 
more or less downwards or horizontally, the rest distant, irregular, 
often branched at two-thirds of their length, the branches all anasto- 
mosing near the margin ; reticulations prominent, transverse ; petiole 
stout, 2 to 4 in. long, base articulate. Panicles terminal, 4 to 5 in. in 
diam., tawny-villous; common peduncle 5 to 6 in. long, '25 in. thick; 
