﻿454 BiQNONiACE^ (Sprague) , 



V. KIGELIA, DC. 



Calyx large, campanulate, coriaceous, closed when in bud, bursting 

 open into 2-5 irregular lobes. Corolla broadly campanulate, 

 narrowed below to a straight, cylindric or constricted tube ; limb 

 bilabiate : upper lip suberect, shortly 2-lobed, lower deflexed deeply 

 o-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, with a posticous staminodcj sub- 

 exserted; anther-lobes free for the greater part of their length, 

 slightly divergent. Disc large, annular. Ovanj 1 -celled, with 2 

 parietal placentas; ovules numerous, multiseriate. Fruit roughly 

 cylindric, in dehiscent ; pericarp thick, enclosing a fibrous pulp in 

 which the. seeds are embedded. Seeds thick, wingless, with a 

 coriaceous much intruded testa ; cotyledons folded. 



Trees with simply imparipinnate leaves and pendulous long-peduncled lax 

 panicles of large orange or red flowers. 



DiSTBiB. Species 9, all Tropical African, one extending into South Africa. 

 K. madagascariensis, Baker, is a Kigeliantlie. 



1. K. pmnata (DC. Prodr. ix. 247) ; a tree 20-50 ft. high, with 

 rough bark; leaves ternate ; leaflets 5-9 (rarely fewer), 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 

 .ubsessile, terminal with petiole 4-13 lin. long ; calyx 1-lA in. long, 

 glandular above, finely pubescent or glabrescent ; tube VlO lin. 

 iong; lobes irregular, unequal; corolla claret-coloured; tube 21-3 

 in long, dilaed at the mouth of the calyx ; lower cylindric portion 



IZ' "^'' '^} ?^"-? ''^- ^"^'^^^J J«bes pointed, 4-2^ in. long; 

 stamens inserted 11-12 lin. above base^f co;olla-tube ; anthel^s 



Im,. .n!!^' 1 V r^ ^""^f ' °''^'^y ^-6 !»"• lo^^% minutely puberu- 

 across^ ?M ""^-^^^i f^^^^' nubcylindric, over 1 ft.long, sl^X 4 in. 



oj JJecmsne Crescentta pimiata, Jacq. Collect iii 203 t 18. 

 J^aruBcium pmnatum, Willd Sn P7 Jii t^o 'r ■' ■ ■ \ ■' 

 Spreng. Syst. ii. 842. ^ Inpinnaria afncana, 



MifrquerBo^r^TTe'! "'^^^''" ^^^'' ^'^'^««'>«. 24 ! 18 miles from Louren^o 

 Also in Tropical Africa. 



OiiDMi C. PEDALINE^. 



(By O. Staff.) 



the^br'into'T^^^''^''!' ^^g°«^«^Pt-. Caly;. divided nearly to 



Lanulae fnnn?°^^^^^^^ ^''''^^'' gamopetalous ; tube obliquely 



campanulate, funnel-shaped or cylindric, often gibbous or spurred 



