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ment of a fifth, rarely 5-6, all fertile; anthers 2-celled. A 
tumid disk round the ovary. Ovary 2-celled (rarely 1-celled), 
few- or many-ovuled ; style simple ; stigma 2-lamellate. Cap- 
sules 2-valved, 2-celled or falsely 4-celled, depressed or com- 
pressed, the septum either parallel or at right angles to 
the valves, or a fleshy or woody, indehiscent fruit. Seeds 
winged in the capsular genera, wingless in the others; in all 
cases exalbuminous.—Trees and shrubs, very rarely herbs, erect 
or climbing. Leaves opposite or rarely alternate, mostly com- 
pound. Flowers showy. 
Tribe 1. Branontex. Fruit a 2-valved, 2-celled capsule. Seeds with 
membranous wings. Cotyledons leafy. 
Flowers racemose ; corolla 2-lipped; stamens 4, didy- 
NS ere rie io Nass Pinas) ue pe, » de ECOMA 
Flowers solitary ; corolla funnel- or salver-shaped ; 
stamens 5-6-7, subequal. 
Calyx cleft on one side; corolla-tube cylindrical. , 2. CATOPHRACTES. 
Calyx 4-5-toothed ; corolla-tube widely bell-shaped 3. Ruicozum. 
Tribe 2. CRESCENTIE®. Fruit fleshy or woody, indehiscent. Seeds 
wingless. Cotyledons fleshy. 
Leaves pinnate; flowers panicled; corolla sharply 5- 
lobed ; stamens 4, didynamous . . ove eth a 4y Keema. 
TrrBe 1. Branonrem. (Gen. 1-3.) 
1. TECOMA, Juss. 
Calyx bell-shaped, 5-toothed. Corolla-tube short, dilated 
in the throat, 5-lobed, sub-2-labiate or equal. Stamens 4, 
didynamous, with rudiment of a fifth; anthers with divergent 
cells. Capsules 2-celled, 2-valved, the septum at right angles 
to the valves. Seeds winged.— DC. Prod. ix. p. 217. 
T. Capensis, Lindl., a handsome bush, with ash-like leaves and racemes 
of scarlet flowers, is cultivated throughout the colony, and found wild, in 
great profusion, in many parts of the Eastern Province, in Caffraria, and at 
Natal. Its African origin has been questioned by Dr. Seemann, but I 
think his opinion supported on very slender evidence, and chiefly defensible 
on abstract theoretical grounds. But why may not there be an African 
species of Tecoma,—a genus by no means exclusively American,—as well as 
an African Menodora, or as a Mexican Hermannia ? 
2. CATOPHRACTES, Don. 
Calyx cleft on one side, on the other 6-toothed. Corolla . 
with a cylindrical tube, funnel-shaped in the throat; limb 6- 
lobed, spreading, equal. Stamens 6, rarely 7, subequal, ex- 
serted; anther-cells parallel, free below. Ovary short, conical, 
2-celled. Fruit unknown.—DC. Prod. ix. p. 233; Don tm 
Linn. Trans. xviii. p. 306. ¢. 22. 
Rigid, erect, spiny shrubs, clothed with friable, powdery pubescence. 
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