O16 XCVI. BIGNONIACEE (SPRAGUE). { Podranea. 
Mozamb. Dist. Mashonaland: in dry places, 4500 ft., Bryce! Rhodesia: 
Bulnwayo, near streams, Franklin White ! 
Closely allied to P. ricasvliana, Sprague, from which it differs in the early 
retlexed calyx-lobes and the smaller, more abruptly campanulate corolla, which is 
villous within, and has the basal cylindric portion included in the calyx-tube. 
3. FERDINANDIA, Welw. ex Seem. in Journ. Bot. 1860,:330. 
Calyx opening late in bud, campanulate, unequally 3-4-lobed. 
Corolla broadly campanulate, narrowed below to a short cylindric or 
constricted portion ; limb slightly bilabiate. Stamens 4, slightly exserted 
from the corolla-tuze ; anther-lobes divaricate. Disc cupular. Ovules 
pluriseriate in each cell. Capsule cylindric, spirally twisted ; septum 
thick, flattened, Seeds oblong, winged at the ends.—Trees or shrubs. 
Leaves opposite, imparipinnate. Flowers Jarge in axillary corymbose 
cymes produced after the fall of the subtending leaves.—/ernandoa, 
Seem. in Journ. Bot. 1866, 123. Ferdinandoa, Seem. l1.c. 1870, 280. 
Ferdinanda, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii, 1047. Fernandia, Bauill. 
Hist. Pl. x.47. K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 243. 
Species 2, endemic. 
The Asiatic genus Heterophragma, to which Ferdinandia lias been reduced by 
certain authors, differs in having a terminal inflorescence and an annular disc. 
Calyx and lower surface of leaflets pubescent or 
tomentose ; peduncle very short . : s . 1. FP. superba. 
Calyx and lower surface of leaflets glabrous (disre- 
garding glands); pedunele long . : : . 2. F. magnifica, 
1. F. superba, Welw. ex Seem. in Journ. Bot. 1865, 330, tt. 37-38. 
A tree, 25-40 ft. high, almost leafless at the time of flowering. Young 
shoots and leaves finely and densely pubescent. Leaves up to 1 ft. 
long ; rhachis pubescent ; leaflets 7-13, shortly petioled, elliptic-oblong, 
shortly acuminate, unequally cuneate at the base, 1-4 in. long, 9-26 lin. 
broad, finely reticulate and glabrescent above, finely and densely pubes- 
cent below. Cymes axillary, corymbose, 5—9-flowered, 2 in. long 
excluding the flowers, finely tomentose; pedicels under 2 in. long. 
Buds ellipsoidal. Calyx tomentose outside with violet-purple hairs, 
glandular; tube 5-7 lin. long; lobes ovate-deltoid, subacute or mucronu- 
late, 4-6 lin. long. Corolla orange-scarlet with blood-red stripes inside, 
puberulous outside ; tube 14 in. long, broadly campanulate above, con- 
stricted 2-3 lin. above the base; lobes 1] in. long. Stamens inserted 
6 lin. above the base of the corolla-tube; anther-lobes 2 lin. long. 
Ovary 3-4 lin. long, greyish tomentose. Ovules arranged in 8 or more 
rows in each cell. Capsule cylindric-subulate, angular, spirally twisted, 
2 ft. long; septum 2-3 lin. thick, 7 lin. broad. Seeds 1-1} in. long 
including the wings, 4—5 lin. broad.—Hiern, Cat. Afr. 2]. Welw. 1. 792. 
Bignonia Ferdinundi, Welw. Apont. Phyto-geogr. 584. Ferdinando 
superba, Seem. in Journ. Bot. 1870, 280. Fernandia superba, Baill. 
Hist. Pl. x. 48. Fernandia Fernandi, K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, 
Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 243, fig. 92g. Fernandia Ferdinandi, K. Schum. 
