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Newbouldia. | XCVI. BIGNONIACEZ (SPRAGUE). 521 
A tree or shrub with opposite or ternate, more rarely alternate, impari- 
pinnate leaves, and terminal panicles of pink, purple or purple and 
white flowers. 
Monotypic, endemic. The new species from Zanzibar, mentioned by Bentham 
& Hooker, l.c., is Markhamia zanzibarica, K. Schum. 
1. N. levis, Seem. in Journ. Bot. 1863, 225; 1870, 211, 837. A 
nearly glabrous shrub or tree, 10-40 ft. high. Branches stout, sub- 
terete, glabrous, pallid. Leaves opposite or ternate (more rarely 
alternate), long petioled, 1—2 ft. long; leaflets 7-13, subsessile, ovate- 
oblong, obovate or lanceolate, obtusely long-acuminate, 3-8 in. long, 
1-34 in. broad, glandular at the base on the lower surface, midrib 
sometimes minutely puberulous on the upper, leaflets otherwise glabrous, 
distinctly reticulated. Flowers in dense terminal racemes of #}—7-flowered 
cymes ; pedicels 2—3 lin. long. Calyx oblong, green or purplish-brown, 
8-12 lin. long, bilobed at the apex, dotted with a few large glands, 
especially in the lower half; lobes minutely toothed at the apex. 
Corolla campanulate-funnel-shaped, 2-2} in. long, pink, purple, or 
white with purplish spots and lines, minutely pubescent inside; tube 
1} in. long, basal cylindric portion 34-44 lin. long ; lobes spathulate- 
obovate, }—% in. long, gland-dotted and more or less puberulous outside. 
Stamens inserted 4—5 lin. above the base of the corolla-tube ; filaments 
thickened and glandular-pilose at the base ; anther-lobes about 24 lin. 
long. Dise about 1 lin. high. Ovary linear, quadrangular or roughly 
so, about 4 lin. long, glandular ; style slightly bent above its insertion. 
Capsule about 1 ft. long, pointed; valves 3-nerved, gland-dotted ; septum 
1 lin, thick, 5—6 lin. broad ; seeds asymmetric, obliquely winged at each 
end, 14 in. long (including the wings), } in. broad.—Bureau, Monogr. 
Bignon. t. 15; Henriques in Bolet. Soc. Brot. x. 145; De Wild. & 
Durand, Contrib. FI. Congo, i. 45; Relig. Dewevr. 172; Hiern, Cat. 
Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 790. Neewbhouldia pentandra, Seem. in Journ. Bot. 
1870, 338. Spathodea levis, Beauv. Fl. Owar. i. 48, t. 29; Vent. Choix, 
No, 40, in note ; Pers. Syn. il. 173; DC. Prodr. ix. 208; Hook. Bot. 
Mag. t. 4537; Lem. Jard. Fleur. i. t. 51. S. adenantha, G. Don, Gen. 
Syst. iv. 222; DC. Prodr. ix. 207. S. pentandra, Hook, Bot. Mag. 
t. 3681. S. Jenischiz, Sond. in Hamburger Gartenzeit. iv. 370; Bot. 
Zeit. 1848, 792; Walp. Ann. iii. 89. S. speciosa, Brongn. in Lem. Herb. 
Gen. Amat. 2™¢ sér. t. 70, and in Lem. Hort. Univ. v. 397, with fig. ; 
DC. Prodr. ix. 563; Morren in Ann. Soc. Agric. Bot. Gand, ¥. 218, 
t. 260; Planch. in FI. Serres, 1° sér. vi. 309, t. 654 (levis on plate). , 
Lignonia glandulosa, Schumach, & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 274. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal: Cayor, Dollinger, 36! and without precise locality, 
Heudelot, 818! Gambia, Ozanne, 4! Brown-Lester, 831! 846 t Sierra Leone : 
Searcies; Kambia, Scott-Elliot, 4350! aud without precise locality, Garrett, 21! 
Barter! Liberia; near Monrovia, Whyte! Gold Coast : Aburi Hills, Johnson, 
297! Togo: near Lome, Warnecke, 65! Dahomey, Burton! Legis: Ebute 
Metta, Millen, 59! and without precise loeality, Jfillen, 25! Moloney, XXV.! 
Southern Nigeria: Cross River Division, WeLeod! Fernanco Po, Mann, 84! 
Cameroons : Yaunde, Zenker 4 Staudt, 104! 724! Pipinde, Zenker, 1594! and 
Without precise locality, Kalbreyer, 48! Preuss, 516! 
