528 XCVI. BIGNONIACEE (SPRAGUE). | Markhamia. 
10. M. tomentosa, A. Schum. ex Engl. Glied. Veg. Usambara, 34, 
49, partly (as to the synonymy, excl. description and localities). A tree, 
30 ft. high ; branchlets tomentose or pubescent. Leaves 9-17 in. long ; 
leaflets 9-13, ovate or ovate-oblong, acuminate, wedge-shaped at the 
base, 3-64 in. long, 14-3 in. broad, entire or finely serrulate, thinly 
coriaceous or almost membranous, puberulous or glabrescent above 
(pubescent when young), tomentose or pubescent, rarely glabrescent, 
below ; pseudostipules conical, 2-44 lin. long, tomentose. Raceme 
terminal, oblong, elongated, tomentose; lateral cymes 3— to many- 
flowered. Peduncles 4-9 lin. long; pedicels 3-8 lin. long. Calyx 
11-12} lin. long, uncinate, split down to within 14-24 lin. from the 
base, tomentose. Corolla pale yellow ; tube 15-18 lin. long, campanu- 
late above; basal cylindric portion 3-4 lin. long, 14-2 lin. in diam. ; 
lobes 8-13 lin. long, conspicuously glandular. Stamens inserted 4-4} 
lin. above the base of the corolla-tube ; filaments thickened and pilose 
at the base; anther-lobes 14-2 lin. long. Disc annular, 7-1} lin. high, 
4-; lin. thick, contiguous with the ovary. Ovary 4-4} lin. long, 
glabrous, or minutely lepidote at the base ; stigma-lobes elliptic-ovate, 
obtuse or retuse. Capsule falcate, 2-21 ft. long, 7-94 lin. broad, finely 
pubescent or puberulous; seeds 14-1} in. long, 3—4 lin. broad ; nucleus 
\-7 lin. long.—Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 242, partly. 
Spathodea tomentosa, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 462. Dolichandrone 
tomentosa, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 1046. Jfuenteria tomentosa, 
Seem, in Journ. Bot. 1865, 330, partly (as regards the synonymy, excl, 
description, figure and Angolan locality). I. lutea, Seem. 1.c. 1870, 
338, partly (as regards Barter, DDD), 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot, 877! Sierra Leone: Talla Hills; 
near Ninia, Scott-Elliot, 4992! Sulimania, Scott-Elliot, 5281! Lagos, Phillips, 
58! Northern Nigeria: Mount Patteh, Barter, 555! Vogel, 176! Cameroons: 
Yaunde, Zenker, 1432! « Niger Expedition, probably Fernando Po,” Vogel ! 
Var. gracilis, Sprague. Leaves membranous, finely serrulate, glabrescent below 
except the veins. Racemes short, slender ; flowers somewhat smaller; calyx shortly 
cuspidate.— Uuenteria lutea, Seem. in Journ. Bot. 1870, 338, partly (as regards 
Barter’s Nupe plant). 
Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria: Nupe, Barter, 1310! 
¢. SPATHODEA, Beauv. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 1045. 
Calyx opening late in bud, spathaceous, split down the posticous 
side, recurved, boat-shaped in outline, more or less acuminate. Corolla 
broadly campanulate above, abruptly narrowed to a cylindric basal 
portion ; limb slightly bilabiate; lobes ascending. Stamens 4, didyna- 
mous, scarcely exserted; anther-lobes attached at the apex, linear, 
divaricate. Disc annular, truncate-conical in outline, more or less 
-lobed at the top. Ovary oblong; ovules multiseriate in each cell. 
Capsule oblong-lanceolate, narrowed at both ends; valves boat-shaped, 
rather woody.—Trees with opposite or ternate imparipinnate leaves 
and terminal corymbose racemes of scarlet or crimson flowers. 
Species 2, both endemic. 
Ovary papillose . : : “ : : . 1. 8S. campanula. 
Ovary densely pilose . : : : ; : . 2 8. nilotica. 
