385 
Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
1 to 3 in. long ; bracts and bracteoles very small, caducous ; pedicels 
slender, "3 to '4 in. long ; flowers white. Calyx cupular, -1 in. long ; 
lobes very shallow, rounded, recurved. Corolla-tube very slender, 
1-5 to 2'5 in. long, about ’07 to - 1 in. broad, glabrous; lobes ovate- 
oblong, acute, pubescent within, - 5 to '6 in. long, -2 to ‘3 in. broad. 
Stamens inserted at the top of the tube ; filaments slender, -4 to • 5 in. 
long; anthers rounded, ovate. Ovary slender; style very slender, 
exsert, stigma-lobes ovate. Disk cushion-like, ‘05 in. high. Capsule 
about 12 to 15 in. long and -75 in. broad, acute at both ends ; valves 
woody, septum ultimately free. Seeds in several rows along the margins 
of the septum, much overlapping, including the wing about 1 in. by 
■5 in. ; wing narrow at the apex, hyaline. DC. Prod. IX. 182 ; Wight 
111. 16 bis fig. 6 ; Bureau Monog. Bign. t. 8 ; Bedd. PI. Sylv. Madr. t. 
249 ; Brandis For. FI. 347 ; Kurz For. FI. II. 238 ; Clarke in Hook. f. FI. 
Br. Ind. IY. 377 ; Cooke Bomb. FI. II. 334 ; Prain Beng. Plants 788. 
Bignonia Azedarachta, Koen. Ann. Bot. I. 178. B. suberosa, Boxb. 
Cor. PL III. 11, t. 214 and FI. Ind. III. Ill ; Wall. Cat. 6513. 
Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 1215. Singapore : Deschamps . — 
Distrib. India, Burma {fide Kurz), Sumatra (Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. 
Suppl. 565). 
Whether the specimens were gathered from really wild trees there is nothing to 
show, but if Kurz is right in his statement that the cork-tree, so well known in India 
in cultivation, is wild in tropical forests from Martaban to Tenasserim, it may well 
occur in a wild state further south in the Peninsula. 
Order LXXXVIII. PEDALINEiE. 
[By D. Piiain.] 
Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves opposite or the upper alternate, 
entire toothed or lobed ; stipules 0. Flowers irregular, solitary or, 
rarely, clustered or racemose, usually axillary ; pedicels short ; bracts 
minute or 0. Sepals 4-5, slightly connate below. Petals connate in a 
tubular- ventricose corolla ; limb 5-lobed, obscurely 2-lipped ; lobes 
imbricate. Stamens 4, didynamous, rarely 2. Carpels 2, connate in a 
2-celled, rarely 1-celled ovary ; ovules many or few, superposed ; style 
filiform ; stigma shortly 2-lobed. Fruit hard, indehiscent, or a 2- (less 
often 3-4-) valved capsule. Seeds without wings ; albumen 0. — Distrib. 
Species about 40, in tropical and sub-tropical countries. 
Sesamum, Linn. 
Erect or prostrate herbs. Leaves opposite below, alternate above, 
entire toothed, lobed, or divided. Floivers axillary, solitary or few and 
