Tecomaria. 883 
piment transverse with relation to the valves, and not laterally 
dilated. Seeds overlaying each other in several rows, flat, broadly 
winged. — Tall woody climbers. Leaves opposite, pinnate. Flowers 
in terminal panicles. Bracts minute; bracteoles none. 
A small genus of only 3 species, 1 of them in South Africa. 
1237. Tecomaria capensis Spach Hist. Veg. Phan. [IX (1840), 
p. 137. — Bignonia capensis Thunberg Prodrom. Flor. cap., p. 105. 
— Tecoma capensis Lindl. Bot. Reg., tab. 117. — Aschers.-Schweinf. 
Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 105. — Ducoudrea capensis Bur. Monograph. 
Bignon., p.49. — A rambling shrub about 2m high. Branches 
subterete, minutely pubescent above, glabrescent below. Leaves 
opposite, short petioled, 5—10 cm long; leaflets 5—9, rarly 3, shortly 
stalked, elliptic, orbicular or rhomboidal, more or less olique at the 
base, 12—30 mm long, 8—10 mm broad (terminal leaflet ovate, 
acuminate, 18—46 mm long, 9—23 mm broad, its petiole up to 
9mm long), crenate, sometimes mucronulate, glabrescent above, 
pilose in the axils of the veins below. Racemes of numerous 
3-flowered cymes, or sometimes simple in the upper part; peduncle 
21/,—8 cm long, usually overtopping the leaves; rhachis and pedicels 
finely pubescent; bracts linear-subulate, caducous. Calyx 5—6'/, mm 
long, strongly ribbed, finely pubescent; tube 27/,—5’/, mm long; 
lobes deltoid, apiculate or acuminate, 1—2,5 mm long, ciliate. 
Corolla orangered or scarlet; tube laterally compressed, 2—2'/, cm 
long; lobes ovate, obtuse, rather under 1 cm long, ciliate. Capsule 
6-10 cm long, 8—10 mm broad, apiculate. — Flow. January 
to March. 
N. d. Alexandria; Cairo, often cultivated in gardens, and rarely 
naturalized. 
Also known from Tropical and South America. 
100. Pedaliaceae. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, zygomorphic. Calyx divided nearly to 
the base into 5 segments. Corolla gamopetalous; tube obliquely 
campanulate, funnel-shaped or cylindric, often gibbous or spurred 
at the base of the back; limb obscurely 2-labiate, usually short. 
Stamens 4, more or less distinctly didynamous with the rudiment 
of the fifth present (very rarely 2 fertile and 2 staminodes), inserted 
and enclosed in the corolla-tube, rarely shortly exserted; anther- 
cells 2, dehiscent longitudinally, hanging from the apex of the con- 
nective and often somewhat divergent, or dorsally attached to it 
and parallel; connective nearly always with an apical gland. Hypo- 
gynous disk always more or less developed, often asymmetric. 
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