382 IIEVISION OF THE NATURAL ORDER BIGNONIACEili. 



(albae fragrantis) tubo gracili (2 unc. long.), lobis fiinbriato-crispis ; 

 capsula subcylindracea, arcuata (12-15 unc. long.), glabra; septa spon- 

 giosa (v. s. sp.). — Spathodea crispa. Wall. Cat. n. 6515 ; De Cand. 

 Prod. ix. p. 206; Bureau, Monog. Bign. t. 27. S. m'cuata, Wight, 

 Icon. iv. t. 1340 ; Walp. Ann. iii. p. 89. S. atrovirens, Sprengl. Syst. 

 ii. p. 835. ^S'. Rheedii, Sprengl. Syst. ii. p. 835. S. longiflora, Pers. 

 Synop. ii. p. 123, excl. syn. omnib. Bignonia spathacea, Linn. fil. 

 Suppl. 283, et Linn. Herb, propr. B. crispa, Ham. Buch. in Roxb. PL 

 Ind. iii. p. 103. B. atrovirens. Roth, Nov. Spec. p. 284. Nomen 

 vernaculum Tamulense " Will-Padri," teste Kcenig in Herb. Mus. 

 Brit. — Mysore (Wallich ! n. 6515), Ceylon, locis sylvaticis desertis 

 (Koenig! Herb. Mus. Brit, et Sir J. E. Smith). 



5. D. heterophylla, Seem. ; arborea, glabra ; foliis oppositis vel in- 

 ferioribus alternis, aliis simplicibus lanceolato-linearibus vel subspathu- 

 latis integerrirais vel bifidis, aliis pinnatis 2-4-jugis cum impari, folio- 

 lis petiolulatis lineari-lanceolatis lanceolatisve attenuatis integerrimis 

 nervis utrinque prominulis ; racemis terminalibus 12-18-floris, quan- 

 doque paniculatis ; pedicellis elongatis, bracteolatis ; calyce glanduloso ; 

 coroUae (albae ?) tubo gracili calycera duplo longiore, lobis fimbriato- 

 crispis ; capsula subcylindraceo-subarcuata (8-10 unc. long., \ unc. 

 lat.), glabra (v. s. sp.). — Spathodea Jielerophylla, R. Brown, Prod. p. 

 472 ; De Cand. Prod. ix. p. 207 ; Benth. PI. Austr. iv. p. 538. S. (?) 

 altermfolia, R. Brown, Prod. p. 472; De Cand. Prod. ix. p. 209; 

 Benth. 1. c. — North coast of New Holland (R. Brown ! in Herb. Mus. 

 Brit.), Upper Victoria River (P. Miiller !), Burdekin River (P. Miiller !), 

 Careening Bay. (A. Cunningham ! in Herb. Hook.) 



The most developed form of this species is that collected at Careen- 

 ing Bay. It has opposite iraparipinnate leaves, and occasionally pani- 

 cled flowers. Less developed are those gathered by R. Brown and P. 

 von Miiller, the leaves of which are sometimes alternate and simple, 

 and the flowers merely racemose. I look upon Brown's Spathodea 

 alternifolia (of which there is no authentic specimen) as identical with 

 this species, the alternate leaves being an indication that the specimen 

 upon which it was founded was that of a young or undeveloped plant, 

 and the form of the leaves insisted upon as character is being met 

 with in Spathodea heterophylla. I have adopted the name of " hetero- 

 phylla' in preference to tliat of " alternifolia,^^ as the former best ex- 

 presses a prominent feature (the extreme variation to which the leaves 



