Stereospermum
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Description
Rather tall, deciduous trees.
Leaves 1-pinnate;
Flowers fragrant (in Mai.).
Stamens 4, didynamous, included, 5th rudimentary;
Ovary cells each with 2 rows of many ovules.
Capsule long linear, terete, mostly twisted, usually 4-angular in section;
Seeds thick, trigonous, wedge-shaped, with a cross-groove, on both sides thinly winged;
Distribution
Asia-Temperate: China South-Central (Yunnan present), Asia-Tropical: Malaya present; Sumatera (Sumatera), East Java present, Madagascar present, SE. Asia present, Tropical Africa present
Over a dozen spp., in tropical Africa and Madagascar, in SE. Asia as far east as Yunnan, in Malesia: 2 spp. in Malaya, possibly also in Sumatra, and a doubtfully indigenous record of a third in East Java. .