FLORA NIGRITIANA, 463 
In the form and size of the leaves, inflorescence and calyx, 
this is very near S. lutea, but the leaves are thickly clothed 
underneath with a soft, rusty down. Of the corolla there are 
only fragments remaining, insufficient to show its form or size. 
4, Spathodea adenantha, Don, DC. Prod. 9. p. 207.—Bignonia 
glandulosa, Schum. et Thonn. Beskr. p. 275.—Sierra Leone, 
Don; Guinea. 
Don’s specimen is very bad, but the scars show that the 
leaves are ternately verticillate, and in other respects it agrees, 
as far as it goes, with Thonning’s description. 
The Spathodea levis, Pal. de Beauv., from Oware, appears to 
be a distinct species from any of the above. The Stereospermum 
Kunthianum, Cham., is confined to Senegal. 
l. Kigelia Africana, Benth.— Bignonia. Africana, Lam.—DC. 
Prod. 9, p. 166.— Cape Coast, Vogel ; Senegal. 
: The specimen has but a single flower, which I was unable to 
dissect, but it agrees so well in every particular with Lamarck’s 
description, except that the leaflets are rather more numerous, 
that I haye no hesitation in considering it identical. It is also 
very near to the K, ZEthiopica of Decaisne, from Nubia, but 
the flowers are not quite so large. The leaves of the original 
K. pinnata, from Madagascar, are stated to be alternate ; in our 
plant they are certainly opposite, neither the figure nor 
Kotschy’s specimens of K. Aithiopica afford any information as 
to their insertion on that species. ‘The W. African plant is 
described by Vogel as a tree of considerable height, with spread- 
ing branches, and a whitish, rugged bark. The flowers hang- 
mg several together from the end of a long peduncle; the 
calyx, 8-9 lines long, not so full as in K. Æthiopica; the 
corolla about 23 inches long, of a deep red inside, paler outside, 
marked with stripes of a golden yellow. The fruits, hanging 
Something like large cucumbers, about 2 feet long and 5 inches 
broad, somewhat compressed laterally, are filled inside with a hard 
kind of fleshy pulp, traversed by almost woody fibres, obscurely 
^ ed, and containing numerous seeds nestling in the 
p. 
1. Sesamum Indicum, Linn.—DC. Prod. 9. p. 250.—Antha- 
