Ferdinandia] xcii. bignoxiace^e, 793 



velvety outside with a violet-purple felt, obscurely quadrangular at the 

 base ; corolla campanulate-subbilabiate, inserted at the bottom of the 

 calyx around the yellowish hypogynous disk ; stamens 5, four of them 

 almost equal in height and bearing anthers, the fifth much shorter 

 and without an anther ; ovary sessile, cylindrical-fusiform, surrounded 

 with the fleshy disk and also a little imbedded in it, hispid-tomentose 

 outside, apparently bilocular ; the ovuliferous placenta usually almost 

 •entirely free in the cavity of the ovary ; style filiform, bilamellate at 

 the apex, the lamellae usually cohering by their inner faces: capsules 

 pendulous, H ft. and upwards, often 3 ft. long. In the bushy wooded 

 parts of the primitive forest in Sobato de Bumba, at the base of Serra 

 ■de Alto Queta, at an elevation of 2200 ft., rather rare, in company 

 with InUia cuunzemls O. Kuntze (Welw. Herb. no. G28) and Oncoha 

 Welwitschu Oliv. (Welw. no. 537) ; fl. Nov. and Dec. 1855, and Feb. 

 to April 1857 ; leaves fully open Jan. 1857 : fr. beginning of July 

 1857. No. 488 and Coll. Carp. 817. Capsules cylindrical-subulate, 

 spirally twisted-angular, 2 ft. long, as thick as a man's finger. At 

 Sange ; fr. beginning of Jan. 1856. Coll. Caijp. 816. 



This plant was named in honour of Senhor Dom Fernando, king of 

 Portugal, who constantly favoured and encouraged Welwitsch in his 

 travels in Angola. 



6. CATOPHRACTES D. Don ; Benth. k Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 

 p. 1048. 



1. C. Welwitschi Seem. Journ. Bot. 1865, p. 331, t. 39. 



Bumbo. — Stem and leaves clothed with a snow-white felt ; the 

 young branches often spineless, the old ones armed with long spines ; 

 flowers milk-white in the living state. About 15° S. Lat., in moun- 

 tainous bushy rocky and gravelly places, about 60 geographical miles 

 from the ocean, at an elevation of 1000 to 1200 ft., only between 

 Pomangala and Quitibe, tolerably plentiful : fr. and few fl. June 1860. 

 No. 490. A sarmentose, spiny shrub, 5 to 7 ft. high. Near Pomangala ; 

 fr. Oct. 1859. Coll. Carp. 818. A shrub as tall as a man, branched 

 from the base ; leaves more or less spathulate. silvery-tomentose, 

 dentate ; flowers white ; corolla-tube long : stamens 5. In dry hilly 

 places between Quitibe and Pomangala, plentiful : fl.. and fr. beginning 

 of June 1860. Coll. Carp. 819. 



Bentham & Hooker, I.e., p. 1049, unite this with the original species 

 of the genus, C. Alexandri D. Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. p. 308, 

 t. 22 (1840). 



7. KIGELKEIA Pafin. Sylva Tellur. p. 166 (1838). 



Sotor Fenzl in Ber. xxi. Versamml. Deutsch. Naturf. 1843, 

 p. 168 (1844). Kigelia DC. Prodr. ix. p. 247 (1845); Benth. & 

 Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 1053. 



1. K. pinnata. 



Crescentia pinnaUc Jacq. Collect, iii. p. 203, t. 18 (1789). I'anca- 

 cium 2nnnatum Willd. Sp. PI. iii. p. 312 (1801). Tripinnaria 

 africana Spreng. Syst. ii. p. 842 (1825). Sotor cethiopicv.m Fenzl, 

 I.e. Kigelia jnnnata DC, I.e. \ Seem. Journ. Bot. 18G5, p. 333. 



GoLUXGO Alto.— A tree, 10 to 35 ft. high : trunk 6 to 30 in. in 

 diameter at the base, in the smaller trees 2 or 3 times divided into 

 branches at the height of 5 to 7 ft. ; branches erect-spreading, loosely- 

 leafy ; branchlets compressed about the nodes ; leaves opposite, multi- 

 jugate ; flowers paniculate, very handsome, conspicuous from afar, 



