Pandorea.'] 
CIV. BIGNONIACEjE. 
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8. PANDOREA, Spach. 
Slender climbers. Leaves opposite imparipinnate. Panicles or 
umbels axillary, peduncled. Calyx cup-shaped, small. Corolla 
funnel-shaped, hardly bilabiate, lobes round. Stamens 4 on the 
corolla-tube perfect, one staminode, anther-cells divaricate. Style 
long, filiform; stigma small. Capsule flat elliptic, narrowed at 
both ends. Seed flat winged, thin. Species 5 or 6, Malay isles 
and Australasia. 
(1) P. Curtisii Ridl. Tecoma Curtisii Ridl, Journ. Roy. As. 
Soc. S. Br. 49, p. 26. (Fig. 125, p. 552). 
Glabrous slender twiner. Leaves 4 to 5 in. long, including the 
petioles 1 to 2 in. long; leaflets 5, elliptic caudate, base rounded, 
2 in. long, 1 in. wide; petiolules lateral ones -i in. long, terminal 
one -25 in. long. Cymes axillary and terminal. Flowers numerous. 
Pedicels -12 in. long. Calyx *25 in. long, greenish purple, 5-toothed. 
Corolla 2 in. long, base eylindric funnel-shaped above, 1 in. across, 
outside pinkish yellow, inside orange yellow, lobes white. Fruit 
unknown. Hab. Rare and local. Penang, Batu Feringhi and by 
the Chitty Temple (Curtis). 
Order CV. PEDALINE^E 
Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves opposite alternate, above entire 
or lobed. Flowers axillary solitary (or clustered); pedicels short. 
Sepals 4 to 5, connate. Corolla tubular ventricose; limb 5-lobed, 
obscurely 2-lipped. Stamens 4 (rarely 2). Carpels 2, connate. 
Ovary 2-(rarely i-)celled. Ovules many (or few). Style filiform; 
stigma bilobed. Fruit (hard indehiscent) or a 2-(rarely 3- to 4-) 
valved capsule. Seeds small. Species 40, tropics. 
1. SESAMUM, Linn. 
Erect or prostrate herbs. Flowers axillary solitary or 2 or 3 
together. Sepals 5. Corolla 2-lipped. Carpels in a 2-celled 
ovary. Capsule oblong 4-angled, 4-grooved, 4-celled. Seeds 
numerous, very small. Species 10, Africa, Asia. 
(1) S. indicum DC. Prodr. ix. 250; Prain, l.c. 386. 
Pubescent herb, 2 ft. tall. Leaves oblong-ovate, lobed or 
narrow, entire, 3 to 5 in. long, 1 in. or more or less wide (variable). 
Flowers usually solitary axillary numerous; pedicels *5 in. long. 
Calyx-lobes lanceolate. Corolla pubescent, white or more or less 
pink. Capsule pilose, 1 in. long, -25 in. through, bivalved. Seeds 
small elliptic, white or black. Hab. Waste ground. Cultivated 
by Tamils, much used for the oil obtained by crushing it. Native 
names: Bijan; Lenga; Tilseed, 
