Tas. 5091. 
SPATHODEA campPaNnuLATa. 
Bell-flowered Spathodea. 
Nat. Ord. BeGconrAcEm.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx spathaceus, antice fissus, postice integerrimus vel dentatus. 
Corolla hypogyna, subinfundibuliformis, limbi quinquelobi bilabiati lobis sub- 
eequalibus. Stamina corolle tubo inserta, quatuor didynama, cum quinto rudi- 
mentario, rarissime eeque fertili ; anthere biloculares, loculis divaricato-patentibus. 
Ovarium biloculare, ovulis ad dissepimenti margines utrinque plurimis, horizon- 
talibus, anatropis. Stylus simplex; stigma bilamellatum. Capsula elongato-sili- 
quzeformis, bilocularis, bivalvis, valvis dissepimento marginibus utrinque semini- 
fero contrariis. Semina plurima, transversa, compressa, utrinque in alam mem- 
branaceam expansa. Himbryonis exalbuminosi orthotropi radicula centrifuga.— 
Frutices vel arbores, inter tropicos totius orbis crescentes ; foliis oppositis vel rarius 
alternis, conjugatis vel impari-pinnatis, interdum simplicibus ; floribus subpaniculatis, 
aurantiaceis, flavis vel violaceis. Endl, 
SPATHODEA campanulata ; arborea glabra, foliis oppositis impari-pinnatis quad- 
rijugis, foliolis ovato-lanceolatis ‘acuminatis integerrimis basi supra glandu- 
lis 2-8 junioribus inferne subsericeis, racemis corymbosis terminalibus, calyce 
magno spathaceo compresso arcuato extus velutino lineato, corolla amplis- 
sima aurantiaca late campanulata sursum curvata subtus valde ventricosa, 
limbi subzequalis lobis late ovatis obtusis plicatis. 
SPATHODEA campanulata. Beauv. Fl. d’Oware et de Benin, v. 1. p. 47. t. 29. 
De Cand. Prodr. v. 9. p.208. Benth. in Niger Flora, p.461. Walp. Annal. 
Bot. Syst. v. 3. p. 89. 
SpaTHODEA tulipifera. G. Don, Gard. Dict. v, 4. p.223. De Cand. Prodr. v. 9. 
p. 207.., 
Bienonta tulipifera. Schum. et Thonn. Beskr. p. 273. 
Palisot de Beauvois’s figure and description are alike inaccu- 
rate of this magnificent flowering tree, and may be accounted for, 
as Mr. Bentham observes, by the fact that the characters of his 
species described are generally drawn up from mere fragments of 
specimens, and that his drawings, made on the spot, of this and 
other plants, were destroyed, as M. de Beauvois himself tells 
us ;—“la proie des flammes que les soi-disant philanthropes -de 
Paris ont allumées @ St. Domingue.” In the figure of the ‘ Flore 
d’Oware’ the leaves are made to appear alternate, and the flowers 
are reversed upon the rachis and give no idea of their size and 
JANUARY IsT, 1859. 
