Newbouldia
(named in honour of the Rev. W. W. Newbould, one of the most genial and pains-taking of British botanists). SYN. Spathotecoma. ORD. Bignoniaceae. A genus comprising three species of glabrous stove trees, natives of tropical Africa. Flowers pink-violet, in thyrsoid panicles. Leaves, for the most part, opposite, sometimes ternately whorled, or slightly scattered, pinnate; leaflets often serrulate. The species here described is the only one introduced. For culture, see Tecoma.
N. laevis (smooth-leaved). fl. rosy-white or purple, in many flowered, corymbose, terminal panicles. l. alternate or ternately-verticillate, impari-pinnate. (B. M. 4537, under name of Spathodea laevis.) S. pentandra (B. M. 3681) is probably a mere form of this species.