53S Lxxxvii. BiGNONiACEJi:. [Tecoma. 



larger flowers. Leaflets usually 5 or 7, ovate and acuminate or ovate-lau- 

 ceolute, 1 to 2 in. long, all entire and, as far as liitlierto observed, not pre- 

 senting the remarkable variations of T. ausiralis. Flowers white, streaked 

 witii red in the throat, in compact terminal corymbose panicles. Calyx 

 smooth, fully 3 lines long. Corolla-tube above 1 in. long, much more dihated 

 upwards than in T. anstralis, the lobes very broad, more than half as long as 

 the tube, the throat scarcely bearded inside or marked with 2 decurrent lines 

 of short hairs. Fruit of T. australis, the seeds rather broader, almost ob- 

 cordate, the wing either entirely surrounding them or chiefly on tlie two sides. 

 —DC. Prod, ix.' 235 ; Bot. Mag, t. 4004.' 



Queensland. Brisbane river, iloreton Bay, A. Cuunlrif/ham, F. Mueller ; Ipswich, 



Nernst. 



N. S. T^ales. Richmond river, Henderson; Clarence river {BeeJchr?), 



2. SPATHODEA, Beauv. 



{Sect, or gen. DoUchaudra or Dolichandronc, Fenzl.) 



Calyx spathaceons, herbaceous, acuminate, oblique, split on the npper 

 edge. ^ Corolla tubular, the lobes spreading, nenrly ec^ual, obscurely 2-lipped 

 or oblique, imbricate in the bud. Stamens 4, in pairs, included in the 

 tube, with a small fifth staminodium ; anther-cells parallel. Ovules crowded 

 on the placentas but almost in a single row. Capsule linear, elongated, 

 flattened or nearly terete, opening loculicithdly in 2 concave or nearly flat 

 valves, the dissepiment transverse with relation to the valves, but so much 

 laterally dilated between the placentas as to appear flattened and parallel to 

 the valves. Seeds in a single row to each placenta, flat, broadly winged on 

 each side, but scarcely, overlapping each other. — Small trees. Leaves scat- 

 tered or irregularly whorled, entire or pinnate. Flowers in terminal racemes. 

 Bracts minute ; bracteoles none. 



Like Tecoma, the genus is at present ia a state of great confusion, and no two botanists 

 are agreed as to its limits. The Australian species are certainly coni?eaers of the Asiatic S. 

 cnspa, retained ui the genus by Bureau, but it is as yet very uncertain how many of the 

 American and African species (among the latter of which are the two species of which one 

 must be considered as typical) are to be associated with them. 



leaves ojate, simple, mostly scattered \. S. alter mfoll^^- 



Leaves simple or pinnate, mostly whorled, lanceolate or "linear as well 



as their leaflets 2_ 5. helerophj/U^' 



leaves pinnate ; leaflets long, terete, almost tiliform * '. \ \ ". ". 3. S. fiUformis. 



1. S. alternifolla, R, Br, Prod. 472. A tree, evidently allied to S. 

 heteropJiylla, and a variety only according to Seemann, but the few specimens 

 known insufficient for determinini^ the point. Leaves scattered, alternate or 

 irre-ularly opposite, simple, ovate ^or broadly ovate-lanceolnte, acuminate, very 

 coriaceous, obliquely veined, narrowed into a lon^ petiole, no pinnate one 

 occurring on any of tbe specimens known. Flowers unknown. Capsule a 

 in S. helerophjlla, — DC, Prod. ix. 209. 



Queensland. Endeavour river, Banhs and Solander ; BnrJekTn river, F. Mueller. 



3 S. IieteropHylla, K Br. Prod, 472. A scrubby tree of 1 to 15 ft-, 

 with a rugged bark, quite glabrou?. Leaves crowded on the yonng shoots, 



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