﻿450 BiGNONiACEJE (Sprague). [Podranea. 



capillar. Ovules 8-seriate in each cell. Capsule linear, scarcely 

 compressed. 



Shrubs and undershrubs with opposite, simply iniparipLnnate leaves and 

 terminal panicles of pink or lilac flowers. 



DiSTEiB. Species 2, one in Tropical Africa. 



I have been compelled to separate this genus from Fandorea on account of 

 the nature of its fruits, which in Bignoniacecc afford characters of the highest 

 taxonomic importance. The capsule of Fodranea is elongate-linear with thin 

 flexible coriaceovis entire valves, while that of Fandorea is short and oblong with 

 woody valves which dehisce into two longitudinal segments, as in the American i 

 genera Melloa and Xylopho-agma. When in flower, the large inflated calyx of/ 

 Podranea _ affords a good distinguishing mark ; in addition, the ovary of | 

 Podranea is oblong, that of Fandorea ovoid. The name Podranea is an anagram j 

 of Pandorea. j 



1. P. ricasoliana (Sprague); a climbing shrub; branches teretle 

 (subquadrangular when young), finely ribbed, pilose at the nodi$s, 

 otherwise glabrous except for a few minute scales ; leaves 4-7/ 'in. 

 long; leaflets 7-9; partial petioles 1-3 in. long; blade ov ate, 

 acutely acuminate, more or less oblique at the base, 1-2 in. lo.4g, 

 5-11 Im, broad, crenate, glabrous, lower surface minutely glarld- 

 dotted, indistinctly reticulate ; panicle many-flowered ; rhachis alid 

 pedicels glabrous ; bracts subulate, 1-1| lin. long ; calyx campanii- 

 late, glandular above; tube 4-5 liu. long, 4 lin. in diam. ; lobis 

 deltoid-ovate, 2-3^ lin. long, mucronate, minutely ciliolate ; corollja 

 flesh-coloured with red stripes, glabrous outside and nearly so inside ; 

 lower cylindric portion 5-6 lin. long, upper campanulate portion 

 li-1^ in. long ; lobes suborbicular, 6-8 lin. in diam.. retuse, ciliate ; 

 anther-lobes 2 lin. long, -| liu. broad ; capsule 8-15' in. long, 5 lin. 

 broad. Tecoma ricasoliana, Tanf. in Bull. Soc. Tosc. Ort. 1887, 17, 

 U. 1-2, and in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. xix. 103 t 1. T. rosea, 

 Bull Cat 1881, 20 {not Bertol.). T. Mackenii, W. Wats, in 



P7 ■ ?!''''"'' ^^^^' "• ^^-- -P«"^ore« rimmliana, Baill Hist. 

 yi. X. 40; K. Schum. in Engl. Sf Prantl, Pflanzenf. iv. 3B, 230. 



Eastern Region : Pondoland ; 'in thickets at the mouth of the Umzimvubu 

 (bt. Johns) River, WUte in Herb. MacOivan, 988 ! Sutherland ! 



III. RHIGOZUM, Burch. 



Cahjx mom or less regular, campanulate, 5-toothed. Corolla 

 lunnel-shaped or campanulate above, with a short cylindric tube 

 below ;iimb subbilabiate ; lobes 5, subequal, spreading Stamens 5, 

 an perfect; anther-lobes connate above, free and parallel below. 

 Disc saucer-shaped, lobed or entire. Ovary contracted at the 

 base; ovules 2-. eriate in each cell. Capsule oblong or elliptic- 

 oDiong, acuminate, much compressed parallel to the septum ; valves 



