380 REVISION OF THE NATURAL ORDER BIGNONIACEiE. 



being much laterally dilated, the capsule becomes 4-celled, and the 

 septum appears to run parallel to the valves, while in reality it is 

 transverse. 



1. D. Rheedii, Seem. ; arborea ; foliis calycibus ovariis capsulaque 

 minute lepidotis, demum glabris ; foliis oppositis, pinnatis, 3-4-jugis, 

 foliolis petiolulatis, ovali-lanceolatis, acurainatis, integerrirais, basi ob- 

 liquis, axillis nervorum barbatis ; racemis terminalibus, 2-6-floris ; 

 calyce deciduo, nervis obscuris ; corollae (albae) utrinque glabrae tubo 

 gracili (4-5 unc. long.) calycem triplo longiore, lobis fiuibriato-crispis ; 

 capsula subcylindracea, acuta, recta, (1-2 ped. long.) glabra ; seminum 

 alls crassiusculis, opacis, truncatis (v. s. sp.). — Spathodea Rheedii, Wall. 

 Cat. n. 6516, non Spreug. ; De Cand. Prodr. ix. p. 206; Wight, Icon. iv. 

 t. 1339. S. Diepenhorsti, Miq. Fl. Ned. Ind. ii. p. 754. S.? Lou- 

 reiriana, De Cand. Prodr. ix. p. 209 ? -S*. longiflora. Vent. Choix, n. 

 40 in obs. Bignonia lorif/issima, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 380? B. 

 longijlora, Willd. Spec. iii. p. 304. Nir Pongelion, Rheede, Mai. vi. 

 p. 53. t. 29. Nomea vernac. Mai. " Koeda-Koeda," teste Miq. — 

 Geog. Distr. Malabar (teste Rheede, Icon.) ; Ins. Timor (Exp. Baud. 

 teste De Cand.); Rawack (Gaudichaud, teste De Cand.); Mergui 

 (Griffith !, Parrish ! n. 253) ; Labuan (Mottley !) ; Malacca (Griffith !); 

 Sumatra (Diepenhorst, teste Miq.) ; Cochinchina (teste Lour.) ; Ni- 

 cobar Ins. (Soc. Unit. Fratr. ! in Mus. Brit.) ; Java (Sir Joseph 

 Banks !, Horsfield ! in Herb. Brit. Mus.) ; Point de Galle, Ceylon 

 (Champion! in Herb. Lindl); New Caledonia (Vieillard, n. 1001); 

 Sunderbund (Wallich ! n. 813). 



Bignonia longissinia of Loureiro, of which there is no authentic 

 specimen amongst Loureiro's collection at the British Museum (" foliis 

 alternis ; floribus solitariis, lougissimis ; calyce nuUo "'), may have been 

 described from a young, simple-leaved state of B. Rheedii, in which 

 the deciduous calyx (peculiar to this species) had already dropped 

 off. The height assigned to his plant by Loureiro (9 feet), and the 

 alternate leaves ascribed to it (a usual state in. young Bignoniaceae), 

 may be quoted in favour of this conjecture. All other characters 

 assigned by Loureiro to his plant fully agree with those of D. Rheedii ; 

 moreover, there is no other Asiatic Bignoniacea known with which 

 they do agree. 



2. D. Laioii, Seem. ; ramulis puberulis ; foliis imparipinnatis, 2-jugis, 

 foliolis petiolulatis obovatis acuniinatis vel obtusis integerrimis, basi 



