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Catophractes. | XCVI, BIGNONIACEA (SPRAGUE). 
9, CATOPHRACTES, D. Don; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 
Pl. ii. 1048. 
Calyx opening late in bud, tubular, shortly split down one side, ter- 
minated by 5 linear teeth. Corolla funnel-shaped witha long cylindric 
tube ; limb subbilabiate ; lobes 5 (more rarely 6—7), spreading. Stamens 
as many as the corolla-lobes, all perfect, subincluded ; anther-lobes con- 
nate above, free and parallel below. Disc cupular. Ovary contracted 
at the base; ovules few, 2-seriate in each cell. Capsule elliptic or 
elliptic-oblong, slightly compressed parallel to the septum ; valves boat- 
shaped, woody, sharply warted. 
Species 1, which extends into South Africa. 
1, CG. Alexandri, D. Don in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ii, (1854), 
375. An erect spiny shrub, 4-6 ft. high, branched from the base. 
Branches divaricate, glabrous. Leaves simple, fascicled, densely 
tomentose ; petiole 1-24 lin. long; blade obovate or oblong, 4-11] in. 
long, 2-8 lin. broad, crenate, with conspicuous lateral veins. Flowers 
lateral, fascicled. Calyx densely tomentose outside ; tube 1-1} in. 
long, shortly split down one side, ribbed ; teeth 3-4 lin. long. Corolla 
white ; tube 2-24 in. long, with a broad villous band inside below the 
origin of the filaments; limb 1}-2} in. across ; lobes suborbicular, )—14 
lin. in diam. Filaments either adnate for their whole length or the 
upper } in. free; anthers 24-3 lin. long, their tips exserted from the 
corolla-tube. Ovary ovoid, 14 lin. long, scabrous with scurfy thick- 
based hairs; style slightly longer than the stamens in the flowers with 
adnate filaments, slightly shorter in those with free filaments, very 
sparsely villous below the middle. Capsule 13-3 in. long, 9-14 lin. 
broad, shortly beaked. N ucleus of seed suborbicular; hyaline wing 
2-3 lin. broad.—Proce. Linn. Soc. i. 4 ; Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 307, t. 22 ; 
DC. Prodr. ix. 233; O. Kuntze in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berlin, iv. 270; 
Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. x. 255; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzen- 
fam. iv. 3 B. 233; Sprague in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. i. 453. CC. Welwitschi, 
Seem. in Journ. Bot. 1865, 331, t. 39; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 
793. C. kolbeana, Harv. Gen. 8. Afr. Pl. ed. ii. 276. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Bumbo; between Pomangala and Quitibe, 1000— 
1200 ft., Welwitsch, 490! and fruit, 819; near Pomangala, Welwitsch, fruit, 818. 
German South-west Africa: Damaraland, Kolbe ! Hereroland ; Usakos, 2950 ft., 
Marloth, 1271 ; and without precise locality, Pechuel-Loesche. 
Mozamb. Dist. Bechuanaland: Ngamiland ; Kwebe Hills, Zugard, 65! 
Mrs, Lugard, 83! near Lake Ngami, Chapman! Baines! Chapman & Baines! 
Also in South Africa. 
10. KIGELIA, DC.; Benth. et Hook. £. Gen. Pl. ii. 1053. 
campanulate, coriaceous, irregularly 
ate above, narrowed below to a 
limb bilabiate; upper lip sub- 
Calyx opening late in bud, 
2—5-lobed. Corolla broadly campanul 
Straight, cylindric or constricted tube ; 
