Millingtonia
(named after Thomas Millington, an English botanist of the eighteenth century, and a writer on vegetable physiology). ORD. Bignoniaceae. A monotypic genus, the species being a handsome stove evergreen tree, with deeply cracked and spongy bark. For culture, see Jacaranda.
M. hortensis (garden). fl. pure white, delightfully fragrant, numerous, large; corolla with a very long tube, divided into five segments, the two uppermost of which are more or less grown together; panicle cross-armed, ramifications horizontal, the first trichotomous, then dichotomous, with generally a simple flower in the fork. fr. divided into two cells by means of a partition running parallel with the direction of the valves. l. opposite, impari-pinnate; leaflets quite entire, 1in. to 3in. long. h. 80ft. Birma, 1820. (B. F. S. 249.)