Spathodea] xcii. BiGNONiACEiE. 791 



3. SPATHODEA P. Beauv. ; Benth. & Hook, f . Gen. PL ii. p. 1045. 



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

 Seem, in Journ. Bot. iii. p. 332, t. 40 (1865) ; Welw. Apontam. 

 p. 584, n. 6 (1859). Bignonia tulipifera Thonn. in Danske Vid.. 

 Selsk. iv. p. 47 (1829). S. tulipifera G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 

 p. 223 (1837). 



LiBONGO. — A tree of moderate size, with the habit of an ash ; leaves 

 pinnate, deep green ; flowers raoemose-oymose, 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. Carp. 814. 



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

 large as those respectively in No. 486. In the primitive forest at the 

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

 81 Dec. 1854. No. 487. 



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

 most beautiful in Angola, 20 to 30, usually 20 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 streams, plentiful, nearly throughout the district, flowering 

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

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

 1856, fr. June 1855, at 2400 feet" alt. No. 486. By the Menha Lula 

 road ; seeds August 1855. Coll. Carp, 813. 



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-andfia " or " N-denand '' or " Mangel-andfta " or 

 " Mutenguenandvla " or " Andenandiia." Mao in Pungo Andongo. 



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



Mtienteria Seem., I.e., 1865, p. 329. Bolichandrone sect. Mark- 

 hamia, Benth. & Hook. Gen. PI. ii. p. 1046. 



1. M. stenocarpa K. Sohum. in Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. iv. 36, 

 p. 242 (July 1894). 



Muenf&ria stenocarpa Seem. Journ. Bot. 1865, p. 329, t. 36. 

 Spathodea stenocarpa Welw. ex Seem., I.e. Dolichandrone stenocarpa, 

 Baker in Kew Bull. 1894, p. 31. 



Golungo Alto. — A moderate-sized tree, 20 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 IJ 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. No. 482. 



Pungo Andongo.— A stately, leafy tree, 15 to 20 ft. high or more : 

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

 bearing frequently drooping flowers ; leaves opposite, imparipinnate, 

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

 Spailiodea, 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 Lecidea ; stamens 5, one of them short and rudimentary ; 



