Family: Bignoniaceae

Description: 

Deciduous trees, 8-12 m high. Leaves bipinnate, opposite, decussate; pinnae 15-18 pairs, opposite or subopposite, slender, shortly winged between each leaflet; leaflets 21-50, opposite, sessile, elliptic-lanceolate. Flowers blue, in lax pyramidal panicles, terminal or axillary; pedicels 4 mm long. Calyx truncate, lobes 5. Corolla 5 x 3 cm; tube narrow and curved below, inflated above; limb 2-lipped; lobes 5, round. Stamens 4, didynamous; filaments 2 cm. Capsule, 5 cm across, orbicular, apically mucronate, woody; seeds many.