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also touches upon the genus Macfadyena, of which he enumerates 
twenty-one species,* twenty. on his own authority. He begs me to 
state that in doing so he had overlooked what Grisebach had writ- 
ten on Macfadyena corymbosa (‘ Bonplandia, vol. vi. p. 10, and FI. 
West Ind. p. 449), and what I had stated in my paper read before 
the Linnean Society about the greater number of climbing species 
of Spathodea being Mucfadyenas. Until I shall have examined the 
fruit of the type of the genus (M. uncinata), I must hesitate to in- 
dorse the transferring of all the species of Bignonia, Tabebuia, and 
Spathodea, which Mr. Miers calls Macfadyenas. The calyx of M. corym- 
losa, Coito, etc., is very different from that of M. uncinata and its allies. 
It is cucullate at the apex, as well represented in our Plate ; whilst in 
M. uncinata the apex is pointed. There is also a difference in the shape 
of the corolla between the two sets, accompanied by a marked difference 
in habit. In M. corymbosa and its allies the peduncles are compressed. 
and minutely lepidote, whilst in M. uncinata they are round and with- 
out lepidote dots. It is therefore not improbable that we shall have 
to make a separate genus of M. corymbosa, Coito, platypoda, lauri- 
folia, etc., and restrict the name of Macfudyena to M. uncinata and its 
allies. 
MacraDYENA corymbosa (Tab. VIII.) ; scandens, glabra, ramis tere- 
tibus; foliis trifoliolatis vel bifoliolatis cum cirrho intermedio ; foliolis 
ovatis, subcordatis, acuminatis, integerrimis ; petiolis pedunculisque basi 
biglandulosis, paniculis axillaribus dichotomis, ramis pedunculisque 
compressis minute lepidotis ; calyce spathaceo, apice cucullato, minute 
lepidoto ; corolla (flavo-rosea) tubuloso-infundibuliformi, obscure bila- 
biata, labio infero 3- supero 2-lobo, lobis obtusissimis, glabra; sta- 
minibus 4, didynamis, cum rudimento quinti, filamentis basi hirtellis; 
antheris divaricatis ; ovario styloque glabro ; stigmate bilamellato ; "T 
sula siliqueeformi, compressa, valvis crassis lignosis extus asperiuseulis 
cinereis (4-5" long., 1-14 unc. lat.), filo marginali per dehiscentiam 
separato superstite, seminibus oblongis alatis (13 une. long., 6-8 lin. 
lat.) (v. s. sp.). 
* Mr. Miers omits amongst these Spathodea mollis, Sonder, in Linneea, xxii. 
p-561; Walp. Ann. iii. p. 90 — Maofadyena mollis, Seem. ms, fro epee ttai 
Brazil (Regnell! in Herb. Sonder), a species closely allied to Spathodea de , 
De Cand. = Macfadyena hispida, Seem., but differing in having villose peduncles 
and a glabrous corolla, besides differently-shaped leaves. : 
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