524 XCVI. BIGNONIACE (SPRAGUE), | Markhamia. 
base, Jepidote, sometimes puberulous. Corolla-tube funnel-shaped, 
11-12 lin. long, yellowish with purple spots; basal cylindric portion 
3-43 lin. long, 1-1} lin. in diam. ; lobes brownish-purple, 4—5 lin. long. 
Stamens inserted 4—5 lin. above the base of the corolla-tube; anther- 
lobes 1 lin. long, acute at the base. Disc annular, 3 lin. high. Ovary 
2-2} lin. long, densely lepidote. Capsule faleate, 1-1} ft. long, 
9-6 lin. broad, lenticellate ; seeds 1-12 in. long, 24-24 lin. broad ; 
nucleus 5—6 lin. long.-~Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 242. J. 
sansibarica, K. Schum. ex Engl. Glied. Veg. Usambara, 16; Engl. Pfl. 
Ost-Afr. C. 363; Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 332. Spathodea tenuifolia, Bojer, 
Hort. Maurit. 219.  S. zanzibarica, Bojer ex DC. Prodr. ix. 208; 
Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 191. Muenteria zanzibarica, 
Seem. in Journ. Bot. 1870, 339. Dolichandrone latifolia, Baker in Kew 
Bulletin, 1894, 31. : 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Nyika Country, near Mombasa, 
Wakefieid ! 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar: Kokotoni, J/ildebrandt, 977! German East 
Africa: Usambuara; Derema, Scheffier, 126! Masheua, Holst, 8795! Tanga, 
Heinsen, 113! Mogila, Kirk!  Usaramo; Dar-es-Sa'aam, Kirk! Portuguese 
Kast Africa : Mozambique, Furbes, 15! 
+. M. acuminata, A. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 363. A 
shrub (Peters) or a tree, 10-20 ft. high (Lugard}; branchlets minutely 
lepidote. Leaves 5-9 in. long ; leaflets 5—7, elliptic, shortly and obtusely 
or, more rarely, acutely acuminate, 1-4 in. long, 3-24 in. broad, entire 
or serrulate, minutely and sparsely puberulous and lepidote above, 
lepidote below. Racemes axillary, borne on the old wood, lepidote, 
sometimes leafy at the base. Pedicels 4—7 lin. long, slender, minutely 
bibracteolate below the middle. Calyx 7-9 lin. long, cuspidate or 
uncinate, split down to within 1}-3 lin. from the base, lepidote, some- 
times puberulous. Corolla-tube funnel-shaped, 14—15 lin. long, yellowish 
with purple spots; basal cylindric portion 24-3 lin. long, 14 lin. in 
diam. ; lobes brownish-purple, 6-8 lin. long. Stamens inserted 
3—3% lin. above the base of the corolla-tube ; anther-lobes 1 lin. long, 
obtuse at the base. Disc annular, nearly 1 lin. high. Ovary 13-2 lin. 
long, lepidote. Capsule 1-1} ft. long, 5 lin. broad, lenticellate ; nucleus 
of seed 4-44 lin. long, 2 lin. broad.—Spathodea acuminata, Klotzsch 
in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 191. Iuenteria stenocarpa, Seem. 10 
Journ. Bot. 1865, 329, partly (as to Kirk’s specimen). 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: opposite Sena, Kirk / between 
Tete and Kaurabassa, Kirk! Bechuanaland: Negamiland; Kwebe Hills, Lugard, 
95! 58! South Tropical Africa, Baines ! 
MM, infundibuliformis, K. Schum. in Engl. § Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 242, 
and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 363, from Msalala (Hannington!) and Ussure 
(Fischer, 460!) in German East Africa, scarcely differs from M. acuminata (as far 
as the material goes) except in having the veins of the leaflets distinctly pilose om 
the under surfaee, even in the adult state. Fischer’s specimen has serrate leatleis, 
Hannington’s entire leaflets. It is possible that the capsule and seeds, when known, 
may furnish further characters by which to separate M. infundibuliformis from 
MM, acuminata, 
