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WELWITSCHII ITER ANGOLENSE. 
{ConiinueA from ip. 115.) 
v.— BIGNONIACEAErM A CL. FE. WELWITSCII IN AFRICA 
^QUINOCTIALIS TEEEITOEIO AT^GOLEXSI COLLECTAEUM 
DESCRIPTIO, AUCTOEE DE. B. SEEMANN. 
(Plates XXXV .-XL.) 
MuENTERiA, Seem. gen. iiov. Jacarandearum. Calyx spathaceus, 
junior clausus, clemum liinc longitudiualiter fissus. Corolla infundibu- 
liformis, limbo 2-labiato, labio supero 2-^ infero 3-lobo. Stamina 4, 
didynaraa, cum rudimento quiuti ; anthers glabrae, divaricatse. Stylus 
. elongatus; stigma 2-lamellatum. Capsula siiiquseformis, 2-locularis, 
2-valvis, septo valvis planiusculis contrario. Semina go, alata. — 
Arbores erectae, Africae tropicse, foliis oppositis imparipinnatis, floribus 
terminalibus raremoso-paniculatis. — SpathodecB sp. auct. 
I beg to dedicate this fine genus to my friend Dr. J. Miinter, Pro- 
fessor of Botany in the University of Greifswalde, whose devotion to 
the cause of science is so well known, — the genus, which Dr. Walpers 
named after him, having proved identical with Picr^sna^ Lindh My 
Muenteria is most allied to Bolicliandrone, Fenzl, Seem., and Mark- 
hamia. Seem., from both of which it is well distinguished. A revision of 
all the African £iff?ioniacece will probably show that SpatJiodea luteal 
Zanzibarica, pnberttla^ and acuminata^ are congeners. Dr. Welwitsch's 
collection contains but two species, viz. : 
1. M. stenocarpa (sp. nov.) Seem. (Tab. nostr. n. 36); Spathodea 
^tenocarpa, Welw. mss. ; glabra; foliis 3-jugis cum imparl; foliolis 
breviter petiolatis, ovatis ovato-oblongis v. oblongis, longe acuminatis 
integerrimis, supra viridibus, subtus pallidioribus v. subglaucis ; ra- 
cemis laxe paniculatis ; pedunculis 2-3-floris; calycis apice uncinatim 
recurvo ; corollis hinc inde glanduloso-pimctatis ; capsula linear! falcato- 
curvata (l-l^ ped. long. ^ poll, lat.)-— Distr. Golungo Alto (Wei- 
witsch ! Iter Angol. n. 482, 483), and also collected by Livingstone's 
Expedition, between Lat. 14 and 19° S. 
"Arbor frondosa, 15-25 ped., ramis patulis, ramulis cinereis ad 
nodos valde compressis, floriferis ssepe subnutantibus. Folia opposita 
(nee ternatim verticillata) 3-juga cum imparl majori. Corolla extus e 
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