Ferdinandia. | XCVI. BIGNONIACEE (SPRAGUE). O17 
in Engl. Jahrb, xxxiii. 332, partly (as regards the synonymy, excluding 
Kast African localities). Heterophragma Ferdinandi, Britten in Journ. 
Bot. 1895, 75. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto; forest in Sobato de Bumba, at the 
base of Serra de Alto Queta, 2200 ft., Welw tsch, 488! and fruit, Welwitsch, Silvie; 
Sange, fruit, Welwitsch, 816. 
The East African specimens referred here by Schumann in Lagl. Jahrb. 
Xxxill. 332 probably belong to F. magnifica. Schumann seems to have overlooked the 
existence of F. maynifica ; it is not mentioned in Engl. &§ Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 
3 B. 243, nor in Lagl, Pfl. Ost-Afr. 
2. FP. magnifica, Seem. tn Journ. Bot. 1870, 280 (erdinandou 
magnificu). A glabrous shrub. Leaves 1 ft. or more in length ; leaflets 
I-13, subsessile, ovate or ovate-oblong, rather long acuminate, unequally 
ovtuse at the base, 1—5 in. long, 8-21 lin. broad, finely reticulate on 
both surfaces. Cymes axillary, corymbose, 4—10-flowered, 6-8 in. long 
excluding the flowers; pedicels 2-4 in. long. Buds oblong-ellipsoidal, 
apiculate. Calyx glandular outside; tube 5-6 lin. long; lobes ovate- 
deltoid, mucronulate, 3—5 lin. long. Corolla glabrous ; tube 2 in. long 
or more, narrowed toa cylindric basal portion 2 lin. long; lobes 1 in. 
long. Stamens inserted 3 lin. above the base of the corolla-tube ; 
anther-lobes 4—5 lin. long; filaments much flattened. Ovary 4 lin. 
long, glabrous. Ovules arranged in 4—6 irregular rows in each cell.— 
Pernandoa magnifica, Seem. in Journ. Bot. 1871, 81. LMernandia 
Ferdinandi, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb, xxxiii. 332, partly (as regarils 
the East Afuican - localities, excluding synonymy). L/eterophragiia 
longipes, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 3i. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: near Mombasa, Wakefield / 
 paheleaae Dist. German East Africa: Umba Valley, Kdssner, 83! Lake 
idia, near the Rovuma River, Airk / 
4. STEREOSPERMUM, Cham.; Bureau in Adansonia, ii. 1!)1 ; 
Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 1047, partly. 
;: Calyx opening early in bud, campanulate or tubular, irregularly 
*—5-lobed. Corolla campanulate-funnel-shaped or funnel-shaped ; limb 
slightly bilabiate ; lobes spreading. Stamens 4, didynamous, include:| 
(in S. harmsianum, the longer pair sometimes exserted) ; anther-lob. 
free, divergent. Disc annular or cupular, entire or lobed. Ovary 
oblong-linear or oblong, quadrangular. Ovules_ biseriate in each celi. 
Capsule linear, cylindric or 4-angled. Seeds winged at each end, 
hucleus ridged and fitting intoa deep pit in the cylindric septum. 
Cotyledons folded.—Trees with imparipinnate leaves and terminal 
tany-flowered panicles of pink, lilac or yellow flowers. 
Species about 11, the others in Tropical Asia and Madagascar. 
Calyx campanulate, 24-34 lin. iong ; bracts not 
foli:ceous E : : : : 1. S. kunthianum. 
Calyx tubular, 6-104 lin. long; bracts foliaceous. 
Calyx and leaflets gkhabrous 2. S. acuminatissimun. 
