Xewbouldia.~\ xcvi. bigxoxiace,e (sprague). 521 



A tree or shrub with opposite or ternate, more rarely alternate, impari- 

 pinnate leaves, and terminal panicles of pink, purple or purple and 

 white flowers. 



Monotype, endemic. The new species from Zanzibar, mentioned by Bentbam 

 & Hooker, I.e., is Markhamia zamibarica, K. Schnm. 



1. N. lsevis, Seem, in Journ. Bot. 18G3, 225 ; 1870, 211, 337. A 

 nearly glabrous shrub or tree, 10—10 ft. high. Branches stout, sub- 

 terete, glabrous, pallid. Leaves opposite or ternate (more rarely 

 alternate), long petioled, 1-2 ft. long; leaflets 7-13, subsessile, ovate- 

 oblong, obovate or lanceolate, obtusely long-acuminate, 3-8 in. long. 

 1-3J in. broad, glandular at the base on the lower surface, midrib 

 sometimes minutely puberulous on the upper, leaflets otherwise glabrous, 

 distinctly reticulated. Flowers in dense terminal racemes of 3-7-flowered 

 cymes ; pedicels 2-3 lin. long. Calyx oblong, green or purplish-brown, 

 8-12 lin. long, bilobed at the apex, dotted with a few large glands, 

 especially in the lower half ; lobes minutely toothed at the apex. 

 Corolla campanulate-funnel-shaped, 2-2 J in. long, pink, purple, or 

 white with purplish spots and lines, minutely pubescent inside ; tube 

 1}, in. long, basal cylindric portion 3J-4^ lin. long ; lobes spathulate- 

 obovate, J-f in. long, gland-dotted and more or less puberulous outside. 

 Stamens inserted 4-5 lin. above the base of the corolla-tube ; filaments 

 thickened and glandular-pilose at the base ; anther-lobes about 2^ lin. 

 long. Disc about 1 lin. high. Ovary linear, quadrangular or roughly 

 so, about 4 lin. long, glandular ; style slightly bent above its insertion. 

 Capsule about 1 ft. long, pointed; valves 3-nerved, gland-dotted; septum 

 1 lin. thick, ^-('< lin. broad ; seeds asymmetric, obliquely winged at each 

 end, 1} in. long (including the wings), |- in. broad. — Bureau, Monogr. 

 Bignon. t. 15 ; Henriques in Bolet. Soc. Brot. x. 145 ; De Wild. & 

 Durancl, Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. 45 ; Beliq. Dewevr. 172 ; Hiern, Cat. 

 Afr. PI. Welw. i. 790. Newboiddia peutandra, Seem, in Journ. Bot. 

 1 870, 338. SpCtthodea kevis, Beauv. Fl. Owar. i. 48, t. 29; Vent. Choix, 

 Xo. 4d, in note ; Pers. Syn. ii. 173 ; DC. Prodr. ix. 208; Hook. Bot. 

 Mag. t. 4537 ; Lem. Jard. Fleur. i. t. 51. S. adenantha, G. Don, Gen. 

 Syst. iv. 222 ; DC. Prodr. ix. 207. &'. pentandra. Hook. Bot. Mag. 

 t. 3681. S. Jenischii, Sond. in Hamburger Gartenzeit. iv. 370; Bot. 

 Zeit. 1848, 792 ; Vfalp. Ann. hi. 89. ,S'. speciosa, Brongn. in Lem. Herb. 

 Gen. Amat. 2 me ser. t. 70, and in Lem. Hort. Univ. v. 357, with fig. ; 

 DC. Prodr. ix. 563 ; Morren in Ann. Soc. Agric. Bot. Gand, v.- 213, 

 r. 2(i\); Planch, in Fl. Serres, l re ser. vi. 309, t. 634 {Icevis on plate). 

 Bignonia glandulosa, Schumach. &, Thonn. Beskr. Guin. PI. 274. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal : Cayor, Zollinger, 36 ! and without precise locality, 

 Heudelot, 818! Gambia, Ozanne, 4! Brown-Lester, 831! 846! Sierra Leone: 

 Scarries; Kambia, Scott-Elliot, 4350! and without precise locality, Garrett, 21 ! 

 Barter ! Liberia ; near Monrovia, Wltyte ! Gold Coast : Aburi Hills, Johnson, 

 297! Togo: near Lome, Wamecke, 65! Dahomey, Burton! Luges: Ebute 

 Metta, Milieu, 59! and without precise locality, Mitten, 25! Moloney, xxvi. ! 

 Southern Nigeria : Cross Eiver Division, McLeocl ! Fernando To, Mann, 84 ! 

 Cameroons : Yaunde, Zenker § Standt, 104! 724! Bipinde, Zenker, 1594 ! and 

 without precise locality, Kalbreyer, 4S ! Prevss, 515 ! 



