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REVISION OF THE NATURAL ORDER BIGNONIACE. 
By BERTHOLD Seemann, Pu.D., F.L.S. 
(PraTE VIII.) 
SPATHODEA, Beauv. 
In a paper read by me on the 16th of December, 1859, before the 
Linnean Society, the printing of which, owing to my sudden departure 
for the Viti Islands, was at my request deferred, I pointed out that the 
genus Spathodea, as presented to us in De Candolle's ‘ Prodromus, in- 
cluded several widely different genera. Most of the climbing Ame- . 
rican species I referred to Macfadyena and Dolichandra, and restricted 
Spathodea to a few African and Asiatic species. Further examination, 
especially of Continental herbaria (Vienna, Berlin, Paris, etc.), and of 
authentic specimens to which the fruit is attached, has led me to reduce 
Spathodea still more. . 
Palisot Beauvois founded Spathodea upon two species, S. campani- 
. lata and S. levis; but as their flower and fruit present differences of 
generic importance, the name Spathodea can be retained only by one 
of these two species, and as S. campanulata has always a spathaceous 
calyx (in S. Levis the calyx is subject to considerable variation), I re 
tain the old generie name for that species, and give to S. levis and its 
congeners the name Newbouldia, in honour of my esteemed friend, the 
Rev. W. W, Newbould, one of the most painstaking of British bota- 
nists, Both Spathodea as now restricted and Newbouldia are genuine 
Catalpee, and so are Spathodea ? Dolichandra (the type of the genus 
Dolichandra, Cham.), and S. gigantea and glandulosa (probably species 
of Rademachera).* S. Rheedii, falcata, crispa, serrulata, heterophylla 
(= Sp. alternifolia), are Jacarandee, for which I have adopted Fenzl's 
onal name Dolichandrone. S. stipulata is likewise a Jacarandea, 
but generically distinct from Dolichandrone, and has been called by me 
in honour of my friend Mr. Clements R. Markham, who introduced the 
Chinchonas into India, Markhamia. The climbing S. Candolleana 18 
evidently the type of a new genus, but at present I have not seen the 
ruit; and most of the other climbing species, ae already stated, belong 
io Macfadyena and Dolichandra. Several other species referred to 
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