Tecoma.] 
XCI. BIGNONIACEiE. 
1135 
whorls of 3 or 4, petioles 3in. long. Leaflets oblique, usually 7, about Sin. long 
and over 2in. broad, ovate, acuminate, rounded at the base or slightly tapering 
into a very short petiole, pale and prominently reticulate on the underside ; 
margins slightly recurved. Flowers in axillary racemes or interrupted spikes 
(the plate shows a panicle) 3 to 15in. long ; cream coloured, the lobes and throat 
shaded with pink. Calyx glabrous, 5-toothed, purplish-brown. Corolla-tube 
incurved, 6 lines long, eylindric, covered on both sides with minute glandular 
hairs or processes very numerous on the lobes ; lobes short, almost equal. 
Stamens 4, in pairs, included. Style exceeding the stamens, stigmatic lobes 
short.— J. 11. M. and Il.T.B. l.c. 
Hab.: Near the Tweed River, TV. Bauerlen. Until fruit is kuown the genus is doubtful. 
2. DOLICH AN DRONE, Fenzl. 
(Spathodea, Beaav.) 
Calyx spathaceous, herbaceous, acuminate, oblique, split on the upper edge. 
Corolla tubular, the lobes spreading, nearly equal, obscurely 2-lipped or oblique, 
imbricate in the bud. Stamens 4, in pairs, included in the tube, with a small 
fifth staminodium ; anther cells parallel. Ovules crowded on the placentas but 
almost in a single row. Capsule linear, elongated, flattened or nearly terete, 
opening loeulicidally in 2 concave or nearly flat valves, the dissepiment trans- 
verse with relation to the valves, but so much laterally dilated between the 
placentas as to appear flattened and parallel to the valves. Seeds in a single 
row to each placenta, flat, broadly winged on each side, but scarcely overlapping 
each other. — Small trees. Leaves scattered or irregularly whorled, entire or 
pinnate. Flowers in terminal racemes. Bracts minute ; bracteoles none. 
Leaves ovate, simple, mostly scattered 1. D. alternifolia. 
Leaves simple or pinnate, mostly whorled, lanceolate or linear as well as 
their leaflets 2. D. heterophylla 
1. D. alternifolia (leaves alternate), Benth. and Hook. Gen. PI. ii. ; Benth. 
FI. Anstr. iv. 538, as Spathodea alternifolia, 11. Br. Prod. 472. A tree evidently 
allied to D. heterophylla, and a variety only according to Seeman, but the few 
specimens known insufficient for determining the point. Leaves scattered, 
alternate or irregularly opposite, simple, ovate or broadly ovate-lanceolate, 
acuminate, very coriaceous, obliquely veined, narrowed into a long petiole, no 
pinnate ones occuring on any of the specimens known. Flowers unknown. 
Capsule as in D. heterophylla. — DC. Prod. ix. 209. 
Hab.: Endeavour River, Banks and Solander ; Burdekin River, F . v. Mueller. 
2. I>. heterophylla (various-leaved), F. v. M. Fragm. iv. 149; Benth. FI. 
Anstr. iv. 538, as Spathodea heterophylla, li. Br. Prod. 472. A scrubby tree of 
10 to 15ft., with a rugged bark, quite glabrous. Leaves crowded on the young 
shoots, mostly in whorls of 3, simple or pinnate with 3 to 7 leaflets, varying 
from oblong-lanceolate to linear, from 1 to 3in. long, the simple leaves usually 
lanceolate, from 1| to 5in. long and narrowed into the petiole without articula- 
tion. both leaves and leaflets thickly coriaceous with very oblique veins. Flowers 
white, very fragrant, in short terminal simple racemes, the pedicels f to lin. 
long. Calyx nearly lin. long. Corolla-tube slender, l^in. long, dilated only at 
the top ; lobes nearly |in. diameter, broadly rounded with the margins undulate 
and crisped. Hypogynous disk thick and fleshy, the margin forming a short 
ring round the base of the ovary. Capsule from a few in. to above 1ft. long, 
compressed (or nearly terete when fresh ?) ; valves slightly concave ; dilatations of 
the dissepiment rather thick and corky, almost reaching the margins of thq 
