1320 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM 



Tecoma fuscata DC. Prodr. 9: 218. 1845. 



Godmania macrocarpa Hemsl. Diag. PL Mex. 35. 1879. 



Guerrero to Chiapas. Central America and Venezuela; type collected near 

 the city of Panama. 



Tree, 4.5 to 8 meters high; leaves opposite, long-petiolate, digitately 5 to 

 ^-foliolate, the leaflets obovate or oblanceolate-oblong, 6 to 17 cm. long, usually 

 acuminate, acute at base, petiolulate, entire, pubescent or glabrate beneath; 

 flowers in dense axillary corymbs; calyx broadly campanulate, 5-dentate; corolla 

 yellow, with brownish lines, about 1 cm. long, campanulate, puberulent outside; 

 stamens 4; capsule slender-cylindric, sometimes 90 cm. long, costate; seeds broadly 

 winged. "Roble" (Oaxaca); "cacho de toro" (Chiapas); "corteza de chivo" 

 (Costa Rica), "cortez bianco" (El Salvador). 



12. TABEBUIA Gomes, Obs. Bot. 2: 7. 1803. 



Trees; leaves opposite, long-petiolate, digitately 5 or 7-foliolate, the leaflets 

 entire or toothed; flowers large, in terminal cymes or panicles; calyx tubular or 

 campanulate, closed in bud, variously cleft or toothed in anthesis; corolla tube 

 ampliate, the limb somewhat bilabiate; stamens 4; capsule slender-cylindric, 

 subterete; seeds broadly winged. 



The trees of this genus are very showy when in flower. They usually blossom 

 when leafless. The name "guayacdn" is said to be employed in Mexico for one 

 or more of the species. 



Calyx lepidote, 1.5 cm. long or larger; flowers purple or pink__ 1. T. pentaphylla. 

 Calyx densely pubescent or tomentose, at least at first, 1 cm. long or less or, if 

 larger, the flowers yellow. 



Flowers (yellow) in large pj'ramidal panicles 2. T. donnell-smithii. 



Flowers in small, dense, usually headlike clusters. 



Calyx covered with a fine close whitish tomentum; corolla pink or j^urple. 



3. T. palmeri. 

 Calj'x covered with long, short-barbate, fulvous or brown hairs; corolla 



yellow 4. T. chrysantha. 



1. Tabebuia pentaphylla (L.) Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 2: 495. 1882. 



Bignonia leucoxylon L. Sp. PL 624. 1753. Not Tabebuia leucoxyla DC. 1845. 



Bignonia 'pentaphylla L. Sp. PL ed. 2. 870. 1763. 



Tecoma pentaphylla Juss. Gen. PL 139. 1789. 



Tecoma leucoxylon Mart.; DC. Prodr. 9: 219. 1845. 



Tamaulipas to Sinaloa, Oaxaca, and Veracruz. West Indies; Central America 

 to Venezuela. 



Shrub or tree, 2 to 20 meters high; leaflets 5, long-petiolulate, elliptic-oblong 

 to elliptic or oblong-ovate, 20 cm. long or less, acute or acuminate, rounded to 

 acute at base, entire, flnely lepidote; flowers in short lax few-flowered corymbs; 

 corolla 7 to 10 cm. long; fruit 20 to 35 cm. long or larger, about 12 mm. thick. 

 "Maculiz," "maculiz prieto" (Tabasco); "palo yugo" (Michoacdn, Guerrero); 

 "roble" (San Luis Potosi, Guerrero); "roble bianco" (Oaxaca, San Luis Potosi, 

 Cuba, Costa Rica, Porto Rico); "palo de rosa" (Tamaulipas, Oaxaca); "ma- 

 quile" {Ramirez); "macuil" (Oaxaca); "amapola" (Sinaloa); "roble Colorado" 

 (El Salvador); "mano de le6n" (Honduras); "maculizo" (Guatemala, Hondu- 

 ras); "roble de yugo," "palo bianco," "leno bianco" (Cuba); "amapa rosa" 

 (Nayarit); "rosa morada" (Colima); "maquiligua," "maquilisguat" (El 

 Salvador) . 



