fact that the pinnate-leayed set has been split up into no 
fewer than seven genera, based on very slender characters. 
Some idea of these genera may be gathered by comparing 
figures which have appeared in this Magazine, such as 
those of 7. stans, Juss. (t. 3191), a native of tropical 
America, T. jasminoides, Lindl. (t. 4004), Australia, and 
T’. fulva, G. Don (t. 4896), Chili, with 7. capensis, Lindl. 
(Bot. Reg. t. 1117), and T. undulata, G. Don (Smith, 
Exot. Bot. t. 19). All of these are retained in Tecoma by 
Bentham and Hooker, and have in common pinnate leaves, 
a loculicidal capsule and a regular calyx. 
Tecoma shirensis is a shrub of vigorous growth, with 
_ flowers very similar to those of 7. capensis, but much 
finer. In company with its nearest ally 7. Nyassex, Oliv. 
(Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1351), which differs chiefly in the shape 
of the leaflets, it grows on the high plateau of Nyassaland, 
where it flowers from May to September, at altitudes of 
between 2000 and 7000 feet above the sea. The plant 
from which the present figure was prepared was raised 
from seed sent to Kew in December, 1902, by Mr. J. 
McClounie, Head of the Scientific Department, Zomba. 
It flowered in March of the present year. 
Descr.—An erect shrub, four to ten feet high; branches 
nearly round, minutely pubescent. Leaves opposite or 
three at a node, four to nine inches long, unequally pin- 
nate; leaflets in four to six pairs, ovate, serrate, tapered 
to a sharp point and glabrous, except on the lower 
surface, where there are tufts of hairs in the axils of the 
veins. Inflorescence terminal, bearing a number of usually 
three-flowered, shortly-stalked cymes ; rhachis and pedicels 
pubescent; bracts linear-subulate. Calyx tubular-cam- 
panulate, five to seven lines long, pubescent and glandular ; 
lobes triangular-ovate, tapering, acute. Corolla funnel- 
shaped, curved forwards; upper lip erect; lower lip 
deflexed. Stamens exserted; anther-lobes connate above. 
Ovary scaly; ovules in four rows in each cell. Capsule 
four and a half inches long, beaked.—T. A. Sprague. 
Fig. 1, half of calyx cut away to show pistil; 2, base of corolla with 
stamens and staminode ; 3 and 4, anthers; 5,apex of style; 6, dehiscing fruit ; 
7,a seed :—all except 6 enlarged. 
