PRAE BorANICAL GazETTE, Vol XVIL]  ;$1?7. 
A new Tabebuia from Mexieo and Central America: Tabebuia Don- 
nell-Smithii n. sp., PLATE XXVI.—A tree 5o to 75 feet high, often 4 feet 
in diameter: leaves palmately-compound on long peduncles 5 to ro 
| inches long; leaflets 7, very variable in size (the largest on petiolues t 
to 334 inches long), oblong to ovate, acuminate, rounded or truncate 
at base, serrate, glabrate in age, 2 to ro inches long, often 3 inches 
broad: flowers arranged in a large terminal panicle of small cymes, 8 
inches long, with short glandular-pubescence throughout: cymes few- 
flowered, with deciduous scarious bracts; pedicels 6 lines long: calyx 
closed in bud, deeply cleft and two-lipped in flower, 6 lines long: 
corolla yellow, tubular, 5-lobed; tube 1 to 17 inches long; limb rZ 
inches broad: stamens 4, included, didynamous; filaments incurved, 
glabrous except at base; anther cells glabrous, oblong; sterile filament 
174 lines long: ovary sessile: pods 12 inches or more long, 1o-ribbed, 
glandular-pubescent and loculicidally dehiscent: seeds in 2 rows.— 
Common on the mountains about Colima and cultivated about the 
town. Collected by Capt. John Donnell Smith, at Cuyuta in the De- 
partment of Escuintla, at an alt. of 2oo feet, April, 1890, no. 2070; and, 
also, by Dr. Edward Palmer, at Colima, Jan. 9 to Feb. 6, 1891, no. 1098. 
This is said to be one of the most beautiful trees of Mexico, and is - 
. called *primavera.". The flowers are a beautiful golden yellow pro- 
duced in great. abundance, and generally appearing before the leaves. 
The trees are often large, sometimes 4 feet in diameter and the wood 
very valuable. The trees are cut into logs about 12 feet in length, and 
shipped from Manzanillo in the state of Colima to the United States, 
principally to Cincinnati and San Francisco where they are used a 
great deal for cabinet work and veneering. The tree is very common 
in the lower part of the Department Escuintla; itis tall and slender, 
usually leafless, and with the profuse delicate yellow flowers standing 
out against the sky like golden clouds. 
The following note is from:a letter of J. D. Smith, Jan. 7, 1892: *The 
trees were too branchless for my servant to.climb, too stout for him to 
fell with his machete, and too high for me to discern whàt manner of 
leaves were those which occasionally showed themselves among the 
flowers. My flowers were all picked up on the ground. I think there 
must be many trees in those countries, of which botanists have not 
been able easily to collect specimens, and which, therefore, remain 
unknown." 
I have not been able to place in any known species this interesting 
tree. It seems curious that a tree so widely distributed, of such at- 
tractive flowers and of some commercial importance should have re- 
mained unknown to botanists. The species, while not agreeing in all 
respects with Zudebuia, answers better to this than to any other known 
genus. In its inflorescence and ribbed pods it is more like Godpanzia 
or Cyóisíax, but does not agree in other pope —]. N. RosE, 
Dep't of Agriculture, Washington, D. C vir — $8 : 
