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BIGNONTACEJS. 
[Cole a. 
or 2-celled. Ovary seated on a prominent glandular disk, cylindrical, 
2-celled ; ovules very numerous ; style filiform ; stigma of two minute 
plates. Fruit rather fleshy, probably indehiscent. Seeds thin, flat, 
broader than long, narrowly winged. — Our plants erect glabrous shrubs, 
with the leaves near the top of the stem, and flowers below them from 
the trunk. Distrib. Endemic in the Mascaren Isles. Species 9 or 10. 
Flowers red, not peduncled 1. C. mauritiana. 
Flowers yellow, on a long common peduncle 2. C. pedunculata. 
1. C. mauritiana, Bojer, Hort. Maur. 220 {name only). An erect 
unbranched shrub, 10-15 feet high, with stipulate erect leaves in 
threes, crowded near the top of the stem and flowers below them from 
the trunk. Leaflets 5, oblong, entire, obtuse, short-petioled, sub- 
coriaceous, green, cuneate at the base. Flowers in fascicles of 8-5 
from the old wood without a common peduncle. Calyx under k in. 
long, with 5 obscure teeth. Corolla red, an inch long. Fruit oblong, 
verrucose. DC. Prod. ix. 241. Biguonia Colei, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 
2817. 
Mauritius, in the damp forests of the interior. Endemic. 
2. C. pedunculata, Baker. A small tree, 20-25 feet high, gla- 
brous in all its parts. Leaves a foot long ; leaflets 9-11, narrow 
oblong, obtuse, short-stalked, subcoriaceous, cuneate at the base. 
Peduncles in fascicles from the old wood, sometimes a foot long, bear- 
ing 12-20-flowers in a lax panicle. Calyx in. long, truncate. 
Corolla yellow, li-l| in. long, the lobes not more than £ as long as 
the tube. Fruit oblong-cylindrical, smooth, glabrous, narrowed to the 
base and tipped with the persistent style. 
Seychelles, in the woods from the seashore to the top of the hills. Endemic. 
Bilimb ou Bilimb marron. 
C. caulifiora , DC. Prod. ix. 241, founded on Bignonia cauliflora, Sieber, Herb. Maur. 
No. 284, is identical with C. Jloribunda , Bojer, Hort. Maur. 220, Bot. Reg. vol. xxvii. 
tab. 69, which is a native of Madagascar, and in Mauritius is cultivated only. 
Order LXXIV.* PEDALINEJE. 
* Martynia diandra , Glox. ; A. DC. Prod. ix. 253 ; Bot. Eeg. t. 2001, 
a native of Tropical America, is casually subspontaneous in Mauritius, 
It is annual, with stout erect finely glandulose-pilose stems 2-3 feet 
high, large petioled round-cordate membranous repand leaves, flowers 
in a short axillary raceme, \ in. calyx with ovate-lanceolate teeth sub- 
tended by 2 large foliaceous bracts, a 2-in. corolla with a whitish 
ventricose tube spotted with yellow and purple and 5 round purple 
lobes, two fertile stamens, and an oblique oblong rugose coriaceous 
fruit with two incurved sharp beaks dehiscing longitudinally by two 
greenish-brown ferrugineo-tomentose valves. 
