528 xcvi. BIGNONIACE.E (sprague). [MarJchamia. 



10. M. tomentosa, K. Solium, ex Engl. Gliecl. Veg. Usambara, 34, 

 49, partly (as to the synonymy, excl. description and localities). A tree, 

 30 ft. high ; branchlets tomentose or pubescent. Leaves 9-17 in. long ; 

 leaflets 9-13, ovate or ovate-oblong, acuminate, wedge-shaped at the 

 base, 3-6|- in. long, 1J- 3 in. broad, entire or finely serrulate, thinly 

 coriaceous or almost membranous, puberulous or glabrescent above 

 (pubescent when young), tomentose or pubescent, rarely glabrescent, 

 below ; pseudostipules conical, 2-4-J lin. long, tomentose. Raceme 

 terminal, oblong, elongated, tomentose ; lateral cymes 3— to many- 

 flowered. Peduncles 4-9 lin. long ; pedicels 3-8 lin. long. Calyx 

 11-12 \ lin. long, uncinate, split down to within \\- 2^ lin. from the 

 base, tomentose. Corolla pale yellow ; tube 15-18 lin. long, campanu- 

 late above ; basal cylindric portion 3-4 lin. long, 1J-2 lin. in cliam. ; 

 lobes 8-13 lin. long, conspicuously glandular. Stamens inserted 4-4 J 

 lin. above the base of the corolla-tube ; filaments thickened and pilose 

 at the base ; anther-lobes 1 J- 2 lin. long. Disc annular, |— 1J lin. high, 

 \— | lin. thick, contiguous with the ovary. Ovary 4-l|- lin. long, 

 glabrous, or minutely lepidote at the base ; stigma-lobes elliptic-ovate, 

 obtuse or retuse. Capsule falcate, --'1\ ft. long, 7-9|- lin. broad, finely 

 pubescent or puberulous; seeds lg--l| in. long, 3-4 lin. broad ; nucleus 

 5-7 lin. long. — Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 242, partly. 

 Spathodea tomentosa, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 4G2. Dolichandrone 

 tomentosa, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 1046. Jfuenteria tomentosa, 

 Seem, in Journ. Bot. 1865, 330, partly (as regains the synonymy, excl. 

 description, figure and Angolan locality). 21. lutea, Seem. I.e. 1870, 

 338, partly (as regards Barter, 555). 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, HeudeJot, 877 ! Sierra Leone : Talla Hills ; 

 near Ninia, Scott-Elliot, 4992 ! Sulimania, Scott-Elliot, 5281 ! Lagos, Phillips, 

 58 ! Northern Nigeria : Mount Patteli, Barter, 555 ! Vogel, 176 ! Cameroons : 

 Yaunde, Zenker, 1432 ! "Niger Expedition, probably Fernando Po," Vogel I 



Yar. gracilis, Sprague. Leaves membranous, finely serrulate, glabrescent below 

 except the veins. Racemes short, slender ; fiovvers somewhat smaller; calyx shortly 

 cuspidate. — Muenteria lutea, Seem, in Journ. Bot. 1870, 338, partly (as regards 

 Barter's Nupe plant). 



Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria : Nupe, Barter, 1310 ! 



7. SPATHODEA, Beauv. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 1045. 



Calyx opening late in bud, spathaceous, split clown the posticous 

 side, recurved, boat-shaped in outline, more or less acuminate. Corolla 

 broadly campanulate above, abruptly narrowed to a cylindric basal 

 portion ; limb slightly bilabiate ; lobes ascending. Stamens 4, didyna- 

 mous, scarcely exserted ; anther-lobes attached at the apex, linear, 

 divaricate. Disc annular, truncate-conical in outline, more or less 

 5-lobecl at the top. Ovary oblong ; ovules multiseriate in each cell. 

 Capsule oblong-lanceolate, narrowed at both ends; valves boat-shaped, 

 rather woody. — Trees with opposite or ternate imparipinnate leaves 

 and terminal corymbose racemes of scarlet or crimson flowers. 

 Species 2, both endemic. 



Ovary papillose I. 8. campanula. 



Ovary densely pilose 2. S. nilolica. 



