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THE BELL-FLOWERED SPATHODEA. 
(SPATHODEA CAMPANULATA .) 
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A magnificent Hothouse Shrub, from TROPICAL AFRICA, belonging to the Natural Order of Btexoxtaps. 
perife Character. 
apparently smooth. Leaves alternate, unequally pinnate ; foliis alternis impari-pinnatis, foliolis 4-jugis lanceolatis 
the leaflets of four pairs, lanceolate, quite entire. Raceme integerrimis, racemo terminali subramoso, calyce longitu- 
terminal somewhat branched. Calyx velvety in longi- dinaliter subvelutino nervoso apice arcuato, corolla 
tudinal lines, curved at the point. Corolla campanulate, eampanulatá glabra limbo subzequali.— De Candolle. 
smooth, with a nearly equal limb. 
Spathodea campanulata : Palisot de Beauvois, Flore d"Oware et de Benin, I. 47, t. 27 ; De Candolle, Prodrom. 9. 208 ; 
Bentham, in Hooker's Niger Flora, p. 461; alias Spathodea tulipifera : G. Don; alias Bignonia 
tulipifera : Schumacher and Thonning, Beskryving, p. 273. 
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THIS gorgeous plant produced its flowers at Chatsworth last August, when the accompanying figure 
was made. It had previously blossomed in June, at which time the flowers were still finer, and 
the colours more distinct and rich. It has a fine Ash-like habit, producing great opposite pinnate 
leaves, with broad leaflets, from among which come the glorious racemes of Tulip-like tough 
leathery fiery-orange flowers, six or seven together; they are quite as handsome as the wild 
specimens before us from the Niger, where it was found on Stirling Hill by poor Ansell. 
Palisot de Beauvois says it is a middle-sized tree, with wood smelling strongly of garlic when 
broken. He only found one specimen three leagues north of Chama. 
