COLLECTED BY MR. WEIR. 199 
flowers, with a large ventricose calyx, narrowed in its 5- toothed mouth, 
colour, and with a 5-lobed border, which is generally oblique, and 
2-labiate. The capsule is cylindrical, with the dissepiment contrary to 
the valves, which places the genus among the Catalpea. Some of De 
Candolle's species of Spathodea are confounded with Tabebuia, as will 
be seen from the оні list, which perhaps comprises all the known 
species of the genus :— 
1. TaBEBUIA PE RUE D. Fs Lo MS Tu. Tababuya, Yall 
Fl. Flum. 252, Prov. Rio Janeiro, 
2. TABEBUIA ийдирди, ‘D. оле. 2: Bign. idem. yai. © 
252, t. 54: Spathodea obtusifolia, Cham., D.C. Lc. 
э 
Prov. Rio Janeiro, 
Brazil. 
4. TABEBUIA PALLIDA, nob. Bign. idem. Lindley, Pot. Reg. 
xi. t..265, D.C.L a. 145 Antilles. 
5. TABEDUIA ME nob. "Digitalis idem., Vell 
268, vi 
3. TABEBUIA MAGNOLIOIDES, nob, Spathodea idem. быш, 
D.C. 1. с. 209 
Prov. San Paölo, 
Lobb Brazil 
6. ean. DENTATA, nob. "Spathodea ilicifolia, Seem. 
Lo 
Ts азиа CASSINOIDES, D.C. 1. с. 218: a ма ` Таш, 
ict. 1. 418 Rio Janeiro. 
8. олы BREVIPES, n s, Gardner, 3899 оуал. 
9. TABEBUIA PISONIANA : бид idem., "D. аа Bahia. 
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Among the species to be excluded and referred to other genera, may 
be mentioned— 
Tas, LATIFOLIA, D.C., and Tab. rufinervis, D.C. =Callichlamys riparia, Mig. 
TAB. omoia а fadyena idem: Tab. pyramidata — Haplclophium мо. 
Sp =Pithecoctenium idem: Tab, йи viatilis, D.C. =Spara' 
sperm 
TAB. Rosea = Spamattospormum idem: Тар. lanceolata=Pleonotoma idem. ante 
descri 
TAB. инш, D.C. is probaby а Tecoma, 
The genus Spathodea ought to be confined to the African species, 
and thus would constitute a well-marked group. Spathodea uncata 
belongs to Dowantha, as already mentioned. The first six species of 
the genus enumerated by De Candolle belong unquestionably to Мас- 
fadyena. These, and some others I will mention, are all climbing 
plants, with large handsome leaves, either 3-foliolate, or conjugate witha 
$-fid eirrhus, bah is sometimes caducous. They often exhibit im- 
bedded glands in the axils at the origin of the petioles, and likewise in 
the sinus of each furcated branch of its compound dichotomously-divided 
panicle, that emit a kind of varnish, which flows over the leaves, after 
the manner of Sparattospermum : these glands are sometimes replaced 
by small stipuloid leaflets. The panicle just mentioned is either 
terminal or axillary in the superior nodes, its branches are greatly 
compressed, gradually widening upwards, appearing as if winged in 
some of the species: more rarely, they are few- flowered; or racemose. 
