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946 rough, moderately hard ; no heartwood, no annual rings. Leaves 1-pinnate, tomentose when young, glabrous afterwards, generally approximate near the ends of branches, l-2ft. Leaflets 7-9, 4½ by 2in., obtuse, with a short point, elliptic, entire or crenate, often serrulate, 3-4pair ; petiolule 0-1/6in Flowers in large, terminal, densely tawny- tomentose panicles. Pedicels short, woolly. Calyx on one side more deeply or obtusely bilabiate or irregularly lobed half-way down. Corolla floccose, ultimately glabrate, campanulate, white, fringed with pink, tube l½in., mouth 2in. diam., lobes crisped. Anther-cells elliptic ; divaricate at base. Capsule straight, narrowly oblong, slightly compressed, smooth, velvety while young, 8-12 by l½-2in., divided into 4 cells by the 4-ridged septum, which latter, when cut horizontally, looks cross-shaped. Seeds l½ by lin.

Use : — The natives extract from the wood a thick fluid like tar, which they use in skin diseases.

Syn : — Bignonia cheloniodes, Linn. f. Roxb. 493.

Vern, : — Pader, padri, parral (Hind.); Pandair (Lohardaga) ; Pandri (Kharwar) ; Dharmar, atkapalí (Beng.) ; Kandior, pondair (Kol.) ; Parolli (Assam) ; Pareya-auwal (Cachar) ; Bolzel (Garo) ; Parari (Nepal) ; Syngyen (Lepcha) ; Sirpang (Michi) ; Pamphunia (Uriya) ; Tsaintsa (Magh) ; Taitu (Berar) ; Padurni (Bhil) ; Padal, padri, paral, kirsel, tuatuka (Bomb.); Kirsel, tuatuka, pádul, padvale, pâdhri (Mar.) ; Padri, pon-padira, pathiri, vela-padri, appu, Kâna Virukham (Tam.) ; Tagada, thágu, kala gorú, mokayapa, pisûl (Tl.); Kalihútrú, kall-udi, bondh-vâla, bile padri, maradakarji, puruli mara (Kan.) ; Nai-udi, mallali (Coorg) ; Pâtirimaram (Mal).

Habitat: — Through moister India; from the Terai of Oudh and Assam to Ceylon.

A large deciduous tree, 30— 60ft., nearly glabrous, except the flowers. Bark brown varying in thickness up to ½in., outer bark corky. Wood hard, grey, no heartwood Leaves 1-pinnate, 12-18in., leaflets imparipinnate, 3-5 pair, elliptic caudate acuminate, blade 4-6in., petiole ⅓-½in. long. Panicle branches slender,