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or slightly compressed, Igculicidally 2-vaIved. Seeds thin, broadly winged 



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Species 6 or 7, Madagascar to tropical Asia, Malaya, and Australia, a 

 single one m the Philippines. 



1. D. spathacea (L. f.) K. Sch. (D. rheedii Seem.). Tue (Tag.). 



A glabrous tree 5 to 15 m high. Leaves 30 to 40 cm long, opposite; 

 leaflets 7 to 9, ovate to ovate-lanceolate .or ovate-elliptic, slenderly long- 

 acununate, base inequilateral, 7 to 15 cm long. Racemes terminal, short, 

 few-flowered. Calyjj 4 to 5 cm long, spathe-like, split down one side to 

 the base. Corolla white, the tube rather slender, cylindric, 9 to 11 cm 

 long, funnel-shaped or bell-shaped above, the limb 5 to 10 cm in diameter, 

 somewhat lobed. Capsule 30 -to 40 cm long, subcylindric or slightly com- 

 pressed, pointed, 2 to 2.5 cm thick, the seeds very numerous, winged, 

 rectangular. (Fl. Filip. pi. 2A2, Spathodea luzonioa.) 



Along tidal streams, scattered, fl. most of the year; widely distributed 

 in the Philippines along the seashore. India to Malaya. 



5. SPATHODEA Beauvois 



Trees with ample odd-pinnate leaves. Flowers large, in short terminal 

 racemes. Calyx densely tomentose, at flowering time split nearly to the 

 base on one side, curved, spathe-like. Corolla red, oblique, the tube con- 

 tracted at the base, broadly ventricose-campanulate above, the limb large, 

 5-lobed. Stamens . 4, in 2 pairs, inserted near the base of the corolla. 

 Ovary sessile; ovules numerous. Capsule oblong-lanceolate, locnlicidally 

 dehiscent, compressed parallel to the septum. Seeds compressed, surrounded 

 by a hyaline wing. (Greek "spathe" and "resembling," frpm the spathe- 

 like calyx.) 



Species 3 in tropical Africa, 1 introduced and cultivated in Manila. 



* 1 S. CAMPANULATA Beauv. 



A medium-sized tree with odd-pinnate leaves and large flowers. Leaves 

 20 to 26 cm long; leaflets about 9, elliptic-oblong, slightly acuminate, the 

 upper ones about 10 cm long, the lower ones smaller. Racemes axillary, 

 few-flowered. Calyx spathe-like, strongly curved, brownish, finely pubes- 

 cent, acuminate, split nearly to the base on one side. Corolla about 10 cm 

 long, curved, the tube narrow below, above strongly inflated, about 7 cm 

 in diameter, 5-lobed.' 



Cultivated for ornamental purposes, old Botanic Garden, Cementerio del 

 Norte, etc., fl. most of the year. A native of ^;rbpical Africa now cultivated 

 in many other tropical countries. 



6. KIGELIA DeCandoUe 



Spreading trees with ample, odd-pinnate, alternate leaves. Flowers 

 large, reddish, in a lax, very long-peduncled, pendent panicle. Calyx large, 

 coriaceous, closed in bud, in flower 2- to 5-lobed or toothed. Corolla-tube 

 contracted at the base, above much enlarged and broadly bell-shaped, the 

 limb somewhat 2-lipped, one lip 2-lobed, the other 3-lobed. Stamens 4, in 

 2 pairs, slightly exserted. Disk thick, annular. Ovary sessile, 1-celled, 

 placentae 2. Fruit large, oblong or cylindric, thick, indehiscent, the peri- 

 carp fleshy. Seeds many, wingless. (From the Mozambique name.) 



Species 3 or 4 in tropical and subtropical Africa, 1 introduced and cul- 

 tivated in Manila. 



