Puate 2770. 
XYLOPHRAGMA PRATENSE, Sprague. 
BicnoniacEx. Tribe BiGNONIEX. 
a qua differt fructus valvis brevioribus, crassioribus, in duas 
Xylophragma, Sprague. Genus novum ex affinitate Saldanhee, 
partes 
findentibus. 
Calyx tubulosus, truncatus. Corolla infundibuliformis, intus prope 
staminum insertionem puberula. Stamina antherarum lobis fere 
horizontaliter divaricatis rectis, connectivoque lato. Ovarium breve, 
stylo juventute tetraquetro, Discus parvus, cupuiaris. Ovula pro 
loculo 6—-8-seriatim affixa. Fructus valve lignose, crasse, demum 
thaigitodinaliter fissee.—Frutices scandentes vel volubiles, Peruvice orien- 
talis Brasilieque incole, 
Xylophragma pegs iho Tecoma pratensis, Bur. et K. 
Schum. in Engler u. Prantl Pflanzenf. iv. 3. 238. Bignonia 
pratensis, Poepp. ea Bur. en i Schum.in Mart. F L Bras. viii. 2, 
Saldanha pratensis, Bur. et K. Schum 
Perv : Tarapoto, in sylvis, as 4232. 
Xylophragma id icinhoes Sprague (species altera). Bignonia 
myriantha, Cham. in Linnea, vii. (1832), p.684. Tecoma myriantha, 
DC. Prodr. ix. p. 2 990. Sa Idanbeea myriantha, Bur. in Vidensk. Meddelel. 
naturhist. Foren, 1893, p. 104; Bur. et K. Schum. in Mart. Fl. Bras. 
viii, 2, p. 255. 
S. Brazit, Sellow. 
Saldanhea is one of the three genera separated by Bureau and 
Baitlot, on the discovery of their fruits, from Cuspidaria, DC., and a 
first included on ly the two species S. pater ah Bur., and S. conferti- 
a, Bur., both from Brazil, to which Otto Kuntze ry eey Gen. ii. p. 480) 
added a third, S. seemanniana, from Panama and Trinidad. These 
three are the ‘only undoubted species of pees which we have 
seen. In 1893 Bureau transferred Bignonia myriantha, Cham., to 
Saldanhea, and finally in the Flora Hranhionsis Bureau and Schu- 
mann added SS. pratensis and two doubtful species, S. heterocalyx and 
S. bracteata ; at the same time, however, Schumann pointed out the 
