Millingtonia
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Description
Medium-sized evergreen or deciduous tree with corky bark.
Leaves 2-3-pinnate, with domatia.
Flowers white, fragrant, nocturnal.
Stamens 4, didynamous, glabrous, inserted at the base of the widened part of the tube (throat), shortly exserted, no staminode;
Capsule linear, compressed parallel to the septum, septicid-dehiscent, valves flat.
Seeds, thinly discoid, winged.
Distribution
Asia-Temperate: China South-Central (Yunnan present), Asia-Tropical: India present; Jawa (Jawa present); Lesser Sunda Is. (Bali present); Sumatera (Sumatera present); Thailand (Thailand present), Burma present, E. Java present, Flores present, Kangean Is present, Kedah present, Lesser Sunda Is present, Madura present, Muna I present, N. Malaya present, Penang present, Perlis present, S. Celebes present, SE. Asia present, SW. Peninsula present, Sumba present, Sumbawa present, Timor present
Monotypic. SE. Asia (India, Burma, Thailand, Indo-China, Yunnan) and Malesia: probably native, in E. Java, Madura and Kangean Is., Lesser Sunda Is. (Bali, Sumbawa, Sumba, Flores, Timor), and S. Celebes (SW. Peninsula; Muna I.), in many places also cultivated (Penang, Sumatra, Java, etc.) and in dry areas running wild, may be wild also in N. Malaya (Perlis and Kedah, CORNER, l.c.). .