530 XCVI. BIGNONIACE® (SPRAGUE), [ Spathodea. 
15-20 ft. high, trunk 4 ft. in circumference. Branchlets subterete, 
striolate, puvescent. Leaves opposite or ternate, 5-16 in. long ; rhachis 
densely pubescent ; leaflets 9-15, subsessile, ovate-oblong, shortly and 
acutely acuminate, 14—4 in. long, entire, coriaceous, glabrous above except 
on the puberulous impressed veins, densely pubescent or tomentose below 
and glandular at the base. Flowers in short dense terminal corymbose 
racemes; rhachis and pedicels tomentose, the lower 1-1} in. long. 
Calyx navicular, recurved, 14-2 in. long, densely tomentose with 
spreading or subadpressed hairs. . Corolla of J. campanulata. Anther- 
lobes 34-4 lin. long. Disc about 14 lin. high, lobed. Ovary 3 lin. long, 
densely pilose—K. Schum. in Engl. PA. Ost-Afr. C. 363; De Wild. & 
Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. i. 45: Pl. Thonner. Congol. 36; Johnston, 
The Uganda Protectorate, i. 68 with coloured fig. S. campanulata, 8. 
Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xxxvii. 193, not of Beauv. Spathodea 
sp. (near S. campanulata),T. Thoms. in Speke, Nile, Append. 642; Oliv. 
in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 124. 
Wile Land. Niamniam: by the Mansilli Brook, Schweinfurth, 3899! 
Uganda: Buvuma Island, Bagshawe, 625! Unyoro, Speke §& Grant, 571! 
Kavirondo and Usoga, Whyte ! 
South Central, Congo Free State: Monbuttu; at the northern boundary, 
Schweinfurth, 3563 ! Upoto, Wilwerth ; Bokapo, near Negali, 1450-1500 ft., 
Thonuer, 60. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa, Hannington ! 
8. RHIGOZUM, Burch. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 1048. 
Calyx opening early in bud, more or less regular, campanulate or 
tubular-campanulate, 0-toothed. Corolla funnel-shaped or campanulate- 
funnel-shaped ; limb subbilabiate; lobes 5, subequal, spreading. Stamens 
5, all perfect; anther-lobes connate above, free and parallel below. 
Dise saucer-shaped, lobed or entire. Ovary contracted at the base ; 
ovules 2-seriate in each cell. Capsule oblong or elliptic-oblong, acum1- 
nate, much compressed parallel to the septum ; valves smooth.—Ereet, 
much-branched, spiny shrubs; leaves solitary or fascicled on axillary 
or terminal cushions, simple, trifoliolate or pinnate ; flowers yellow, 
salmon-coloured or white, solitary or fascicled on the leaf-cushions. 
Species 5, three of the following and one other occurring in South Africa. 
Leaves simple, undulate ; branches ternate . z . lL. R. trichotomum. 
Leaves simple or trifoliolate, not undulate ; branches 
not ternate. 
Leaves simple or both simple and trifoliolate; blade 
oblong- or linear-oblanceolate . ; ‘ - 2. R. brevispinosum. 
Leaves all trifoliolate; blade suborbicular or 
obcordate 5 = : x i . 3. BR. somalense. 
Leaves pinnate , c . : : ‘ - 4 BR. zambesiacum. 
Le trichotomun, Burch. Trav. i. 299. An erect shrub, 3-4 ft. 
high. Branches ternate ; branchlets straight, obliquely erect. Leaves 
simple, subsessile, alternate or ternate on the youngest shoots, on the 
mature branches 3-5 fascicled on small cushions, sessile on the branches, 
