Kigelia. | XCVI. BIGNONIACEE (SPRAGUE). 537 
oblong-elliptic, 24-4 in. long, 1-2} in. broad, cuspidate, entire or 
minutely and remotely toothed, glabrous, indistinctly reticulate ; lateral 
veins 7-9 on each side, prominent below ; lateral leaflets subsessile ; 
petiole of terminal leaflet 8-11 lin. long. Buds cuspidate at the side. 
Calyx 8-10 lin. long, irregularly two-lipped, sparsely glandular above ; 
tube 5-6 lin. long; lobes subequal, rounded, 2-4 lin. long. Corolla 
deep red with yellow veins ; tube 14-1} in. long, dilated at the mouth 
of the calyx; lower cylindric portion 7 lin. long; lobes 3-1 in. long. 
Stamens inserted 63~7 lin. above the base of the corolla-tube ; anthers 
33-4 lin. long. Dise lobed. Ovary 3 lin. long, lepidote ; stigma-lobes 
obovate. Fruit somewhat compressed, 2 ft. long, 5 in. broad.—Biynonia 
africana, Lam. Encycl. i. 424; Pers. Syn. ii. 172. Tecoma africana, 
G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 224. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Wichelin! Herb, Adanson, 199A! Gold Coast: 
Cape Coast Castle, Vegel, 88! Southern Nigeria: Cross River Division; Adaha, 
Holland, 237! 238! 284! Northern Nigeria : Borgu; Palace yard at Wawa, 
Barter, 724! 
9. K. pinnata, DC. Prodr. ix. 247. A tree, 20-50 ft. high. 
Leaves ternate ; leaflets 7-9, elliptic-oblong or obovate, 3-6 in. long, 
1}-3 in. broad, abruptly acuminate, rounded or retuse at the apex, 
Serrate or entire, usually glabrous above, glabrous or more or less 
pubescent below ; lateral leaflets subsessile ; petiole of terminal leaflet 
4-13 lin. long. Buds not distinctly cuspidate. Calyx 1-13 in. long, 
two-lipped, finely pubescent or glabrescent ; tube 8-10 lin. long ; lobes 
Irregular, unequal, acute, 3-7 lin. long. Corolla claret-coloured ; tube 
24-3 in. long, dilated at the mouth of the calyx ; lower cylindric por- 
tion } in. long; lobes pointed, 13-2} in. long. Stamens inserted 
3-12 lin. above the base of the corolla-tube; anthers 4—54 lin. long. 
Dise lobed. Ovary 5—6 lin. long, minutely puberulous, sparsely glandulay ; 
stigma-lobes ovate, acute. Fruit 1-14 ft. long, rounded at the apex; trans- 
verse section elliptic, 54 in. long, 44 in. broad. —X. ethiopica, K. Schum. 
in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 364, partly ; Schinz in Mém. Herb. Boiss. 
1900, No. 10, 63; not of Decaisne. A. /kbalie, De Wild. in Pl. Nov. 
Hort. Then. t. 1. Crescentia pinnata, Jacq. Collect. wu 20S, +. 13; 
Fragm. t. 33, fig. 4. Vanecium pinnatum, Willd. Sp. Pl. iii, 512. 
Tripinnaria africana, Spreng. Syst. ii. 842. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa : Mozambique (cult. in Bot, Gard. 
Pamplewousses), Bojer! Quilimane District ; Lokoloko, Scott! Zambesia, 
Stewart / British Central Atrica : Nyasaland, Buchanan, 701 ! 
Var. tomentella, Sprague. Culyx and lower surface of leaflets densely pubescent 
or tomentellous. Fruit 20-25 in. long, 3 in. broad,—K. pinnata, Klotzsch in 
Peters, Keise Mossamb. Bot. 195. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi; Shupanga, 
Kirk! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Shibisa, Meller! Bechuanaland : 
Ngamiland ; Tamalakane River, McCabe, 45! Okavango Valley: Bakalahari 
Village, Lugard, 233! Rhodesia: on an island in the Zambesi River 6 miles above 
the Victoria Falls, Cartwright! by the Zambesi River near the Victoria Fills, 
Allen, 30! 
