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NUMBER 77 BIGNONIACEAE 49
with simple, oblanceolate leaves and solitary, greenish flowers
was reported by Hodge and Taylor (1957:607).
Catalpa longissimu (Jacquin) Dumont de Courset, a tree
with simple, ovate leaves and white flowers (Roseau Botanic
Garden: Bailey 208, Hodge C).
Jacaranda mimosifolia D. Don, a tree with bipinnate leaves
and blue flowers (Roseau Botanic Garden: Hodge 3955).
Parmentiera cereifera Seemann, the candle-tree, with
hifoliolate leaves and elongate, white cauliflorous flowers
(Roseau Botanic Garden: Hodge 931).
Spathodea cumpanulata Palisot de Beauvois, the African
tulip-tree, with pinnate leaves and large, scarlet flowers
(Sylvania: Hodge 837).
1. Trees or shrubs, not climbing.
2. Leaves pinnately compound, margins dentate .....
......................... Tecoma
2. Leaves simple or palmately compound; margins entire.
3.
3.
Leaves fascicled, simple, oblkceolate; inflorescence
on old wood, 1-few-flowered; corolla greenish, lobes
apiculate ................. Crescentia
Leaves opposite, simple or palmately 3-5-foliolate,
leaflets ovate-elliptic; inflorescence k terminal,
many-flowered; corolla pink, lobes broadly rounded
....................... Tabebuia
1. Climbers by tendrils or rootlets.
4. Leaves simple, broadly ovate; flowers inconspicuous,
appearing cauliflorous; fruit globose, indehiscent ...
........................ Schlegelia
4. Leaves 2-3-foliolate, terminal leaflet sometimes replaced
by tendril; flowers showy, not appearing cauliflorous:
fruit dehiscent.
5. Ste :m.s sharply 6-angled; leaflets broadly cordate;
inf lorescence an elongate terminal panicle; calyx
ma rgin double, the outer frilly and the inner thick
5. Ste :ms terete to 4-angled; leaflets ovate to elliptic;
inf lorescence not as above; calyx simple, without
fril Ily outer margin.
6.
6.
.................... Amphilophiurn
7.
7.
kndrils 3-clawed; flowers yellow, solitary to few
at nodes; calyx thin and membranous, margin
irregular ............... Macfadyena
kndrils not clawed; flowers lavender-pink or
white, in terminal or lateral inflorescences; calyx k
:oriaceous, margin regularly truncate or 5-
ienticulate.
Corolla tubular, white, >10 cm long; fruit
ellipsoidal, the seeds thick and unwinged; leaves
densely tan-puberulous beneath . . Tanaecium
Corolla infundibuliform- to campanulatetubular,
usually lavender-pink, 20); corolla