OF THE MATTO GROSSO EXPEDITION, 1891-92. 428 
staminibus inclusis; disco incrassato, breviter cyathiformi; ovario cylindraceo, 
ovulis 2-serialibus. 
Hab. Crescit in cacumine montium Serra da Chapada, mens. Aug. florens. (N. 79.) 
Frutex parvus, diffusus, presertim sursum foliatus. Ramuli patentes et reverá 
angulo fere recto ramis inserti, bruneo-cinerei, sparsim ac grosse lenticelliferi, 
longitrorsum crebre striati. Petioli 5:5-6*0 em. long., subteretes, imá basi leviter 
ampliati, striati; foliola paullo imparia (scilicet folium terminale paullo majus), 
6:5-8:5 em. long., 4:5 vix 6'0 cm. lat., basi parum obliqua, margine leviter undulata, 
impunctata, supra obscure nitida ibique manifeste reticulato-nervosa, subtus 
pallida; petioluli suffulcientes ad 1:0 cm. long., folioli terminalis petiolulus paullo 
longior. Racemus 5:0 em. long., 6-florus. Pedicelli usque ad 177 em. long., plerique 
minores ad vel infra medium bracteati. Bractee triangulares, villoso-ciliate, 
0°04 cm. long. Calyx 0:8-0:9 em. long., 0°6 cm. lat., puberulus, subcarnosulus. 
Corolla 4°5 em. long., extus velutino-tomentosa, intus tomentella et ad staminum 
insertionem villosa, pallide purpurea, faucibus albis ima basi 0°6 cm. lat., paullulum 
supra basin ad 0:3 cm. coarctata, sub limbo circa 1:5 em. lat. Filamenta 0'6 em. 
supra basin corollee inserta, aliquanto incrassata, fere glabra; anthere loculi 
divaricati, lineari-oblongi, 0:35 cm. long. Discus 0:1 em. alt., vix 0:3 cm. diam. 
Ovarium 0:1 cm. lat.; stylus glaber, circa 2:5 cm. long.; stigmatis lobi ovati, 
acuminati, 0:25 cm. long. Capsula ignota. 
Forsan ex affinitate Tabebuie hemanthe, DC., et T. tryphylle, DC., sed multis signis 
ab ambabus dispar. [Ind. Oce.] 
TABEBUIA AUREA?, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 2, p. 1042. (Bignonia aurea ?, 
Silva Manso.) Arbor formosa, usque ad 12-metralis, tempore florendi foliis orba vel 
etiamnum instructa, crebre ramosa, sursum solummodo foliigera; ramulis ultimis 
0*6 cm. diam., fere rectis, ad foliorum insertionem paullo ampliatis, cinereis, lenti- 
cellis eminentibus ellipticis majusculis inspersis; foliis longipetiolatis (pet. usque 
ad 11:0 em. long.), digitatim 5-foliolatis; foliolis oblongis vel oblongo-ovatis, obtu- 
sissimis, inferne obliquis ibique rotundatis, coriaceis, glabris (8:5-9:0 em. long.), 
petiolulis elongatis fol. cent. eos fol. lat. semi-excedentibus, obesis, basi dilatatis, 
usque ad 5*0 em. long. insidentibus ; cost’ mediá subtus eminente ; costis secundariis 
utrinque 6'7, angulo fere recto insertis, nonnunquam suboppositis, sub margine 
revoluto arcuatim et undulatim connexis; panicule quam folia breviores, ramis 
incrassatis, vix alatis, plurifloris ; bracteis parvis, triangulari-ovatis, acutis, deciduis, 
0:2 em. long.; floribus brevipedicellatis ; calyce 1:5 cm. long., medio 0'5 cm. lat., 
ad 0*4 em. fisso; corollá aureá, vix 7:0 em. long., sub limbo 2:0 em. lat. 
Hab. Inter Cuyabá et Serra da Chapada sat abundat, itaque ipsis in montibus; mens. 
Aug. floret. (N. 39.) 
Silva Manso (Enum. Subst. Bras. p. 40) gives a very brief diagnosis of his Bignonia 
aurea, which was copied by De Candolle in the * Prodromus? My chief reason for 
thinking this plant to be the same as Manso’s is that it is so common and so conspicuous 
an object near Cuyaba that it could scarcely have been overlooked by Manso’s collectors ; 
