Spath0(U(c\ XCII. 1UGN0XIACK.E. 791 



3. SPATHODEA V. Beauv. ; Benth. ct Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 1045. 



1. S. campanulata P. Beauv. Fl. d'Owar. i. p. 47, t. 27 (1805 ?) ; 

 8eem. ill .loiirn. 15ot. iii. p. 332, t. 40 (1SG5); Welw. Apontam. 

 p. 584, n. ti (1859). Biynonia tuUpifera Thonn. in Dauske Vid. 

 SeLsk. iv. p. 47 (1829). S. tidipifera G. Don, Gen. Sy.st. iv. 

 p. 223 (1837). 



LiH()N(;(>. — A tree of moderate size, with the habit of an ash ; leaves 

 pinnate, deep green ; flowers racemose -cymose, red-orange in colour, 

 campanulate, a little larger than even a very large tulip. In the more 

 elevated forests of the interior part of the district, very rare ; fr. Sept. 

 1858. Coll. Cari\ 814. 



Cazemjo. — A tree ; leaflets mostly much larger and flowers half as 

 large as those respectively in No. 48(3. In the primitive forest at the 

 bank of the river Luinha, near Aguas Doces, during heavy rain ; fl. 

 31 Dec. 1854. Xo. 487. 



GoUNfiO Alto. — A handsome tree, when in flower one of the 

 most beautiful in Angola, 20 to 30, usually 2(» to 25 ft. high, with the 

 habit of the common ash ; leaflets with a blackish gloss ; flowers very 

 large and crowded, scarlet, golden-coloured and somewhat crisp on the 

 margin ; fruit lance-shaped, erect. In the less dense damp woods by 

 the banks of sti'eams, plentiful, nearly throughout the district, flowering 

 from September to the end of May, fruiting in June and July : near 

 Sange, N-delle, Cambondo, Tromheta, and around Bango, fl. March 

 185G, fr. June 1H55, at 2400 feet alt. No. 486. By the Meiiha Lula 

 road : seeds August 18.55. Coll. Cai;i'. Sl.'i. 



It is not uncommon in the district of Ambaca. In the primitive 

 forests of Golungo Alto, in Sobato de Mussengue, it attains 70 ft. ; 

 it is called '• Muten-andua " or " N-denand '' or "' Mangel-andua " or 

 '' Mutenguenandua " or " Andenandua.'" Also in Pungo Andongo. 



4. MARKHAMIA Seem. Journ. Bot. 1863, p. 226. 



Muenteria Seem., I.e., 1865, p. 329. Dolichandrone sect. Mavk- 

 hamia, Benth. &: Hook. Gen. PL ii. p. l04G. 



1. M. stenocarpa K. Schum. in Ens:]. Nat. Pflanzenfam. iv. 3^, 

 p. 242 (July 1894). 



Muenteria stenocarpa Seem. Journ. Bot. 18G5, p. 329, t. 36. 

 Spathodea .stenocarpa Wehv. ex Seem., I.e. l)oUc1iand,ronestenocarp)(x 

 Baker in Kew Bull. 1894, p. 31. 



GoLUXiJi) Alto.— A moderate-sized tree, 2i) to 25 ft. high ; crown 

 dilated, frondose ; branches patent ; branchlets tortuous ; flowering 

 panicles erect ; flowers white or yellow, variegated with a rose or violet 

 colour; fruit 1 to \h ft. long, linear, falciform. In dense primitive 

 forests at the river Luinha, also as a small tree in secondary woods near 

 Cambondo, sporadic and occasional throughout nearly the whole district : 

 fl. and fr., Jan. and Feb. 1855, over-ripe fr. Dec. 1854. Xo. 482. 



PiNoo Am)iini;ii. — A stately, leafy tree, 15 to 20 ft. high or more : 

 branches spreading ; branchlets ashy, much compressed at the nodes, 

 bearing frecjuently drooping flowers ; leaves opposite, imparipinnate. 

 trijugate, the terminal leaflet the largest : corolla smaller than in 

 Spudiinha, greenish sulphur in colour outside, deep sulphur inside, 

 marked with longitudinal blackish purple lines and points ; the lobes 

 of the limb very crisp on the margin, dusky purple inside and beset 

 with large round glands which somewhat resemble the yellow-margined 

 apothecia of Lec'dca ; stamens 5, one of them short and rudimentary ; 



