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LXXVI. BreNoNi1ACE X. 
1. Spathodea campanulata, Beauvy.—DC. Prod. 9. p. 208.— 
S. tulipifera, G. Don.— DC. 1. c. p. 207.—Bignonia tulipi- 
fera, Schum. et Thonn. Beskr. p. 273.—Confluence of the 
Niger at Stirling, Ansell; Guinea and Benin. 
Although the descriptions differ in several points, there is 
every reason to conclude that Beauvois’ and Thonning’s plants 
belong to one species. Beauvois’ characters are generally 
drawn up from mere fragments, his drawings made on the spot 
of this and other plants having been destroyed by fire at 
St. Domingo, and he is very likely to have committed the mis- 
take of describing the leaves as alternate instead of opposite. 
The corollas in Ansell’s specimens are fully as large as that 
figured by Beauvois; those which are well dried, are even 
larger ; Thonning says they are as large as the largest tulips. 
The leaflets in Ansell’s plants are rather broader than in 
Beauvois’ ; they are covered on the under side with a minute 
tomentum, which is scarcely perceptible in the older leaves, they 
are also marked on the same side with innumerable small black 
dots, only visible under a lens. Thonning’s detailed description 
15 Very accurate. 
2. Spathodea lutea, Benth.; arborescens, foliis oppositis ramis- 
que glabris v, vix puberulis, foliolis 9-11 oblongis acuminatis 
integerrimis v. obsolete denticulatis, racemis terminalibus 
tomentosis subpanieulatis, corolla infundibuliformi incurva 
glabra calyce duplo longiore, capsula longissima tenuissime 
 ferrugineo-tomentella.—On the Quorra, at Patteh, and Fer- 
nando Po, Vogel. 
Arbor mediocris. Folia pedalia; foliola 8-4-pollicaria, non- 
nulla versus apicem dentibus paucis minutis instructa, mem- 
branacea, supra glabra, subtus ad venas sepius puberula et 
glandulis minutis conspersa, basi obtusa et sessilia v. in petio- 
lum brevissimum angustata, terminale interdum ad apicem 
petioli articulatum et ab ultimis lateralibus distans, MINUS 
vero addatur unum alterumve e lateralibus pariter ad apicem 
petioli sessilibus, et sic folia variare videntur pari- v. impari- 
