11. KiGELiA.] 102. BIGNONIACEJE. 



11. KIGELIA, DC, 



Trees Avitli odd-pinnate alternate leaves and large red flowers in 

 very loose pendulous racemes from the old wood. Calyx irregularly 

 splitting, coriaceovis, 2-5-lobed. Corolla broadly campanulate sub- 

 regular. Stamens 4 didynamous, the 5th present as a staminode. 

 Ovary 1-celled with prominent parietal placentae almost meeting at 

 the base. Fruit goiud-like, indehiscent with many seeds embedded 

 in pulp. An African genus. 



1. K. pinnata, i>C. Syn. K. africana, Benth. 



A spreading tree with pinnate leaves and coriaceous obtuse dark-green leaflets. 

 Usually recognised hy the racemes of dull liver-coloured flowers hanging by long 

 rope-like peduncles, which sometimes attain 6 ft. in length, and in fruit by the one 

 to four large gourd-like pods at the ends of these. Now frequently planted ia 

 gardens, but more curious than ornamental. Fl. h.s. 



Crescentia cujete, L., is the Calabash Tree. It bears clusters of flowers on the 

 stems and old branches. The leaves are alternate clustered and simple. The 

 flowers campanulate, greenish-white with dull purjile lines. Fri;it large globose 

 and the seeds wingless. It therefore departs very widely from the Bignoniaceous 

 tj-pe. Sometimes grown in gardens. 



FAM. 103. PEDALIACE^. 



Herbs with the leaves opposite or the upper alternate, often deeply 

 lobed or pinnatifid. Flowers zygomorphic, 2-sexual, solitary or 

 clustered and usually axillary, or racemose. Calyx usiially deeply 

 4-5-lobed. Corolla tubular ventricose, lobes imbricate. Stamens 4 

 didynamous, only 2 perfect in Martynia, a 5th often present as a 

 staminode. Ovary 1-2-celled or finally 4-celled by the growth of a 

 false septum, not deeply lobed ; style filiform, stigma shortly 2-lobed. 

 Ovules few or, if many, in one series in each cell, not scattered all 

 over a broad placenta (as in Scropulariaceee). Fruit capsular or 

 drupaceous. Seeds wingless, albumen 0. 



The genus Martynia is included in the Nat. pfianzenfamilirn in a separate family, 

 Martyniacea?. 

 I. Flowers axillary. Stamens 4 didynamous, perfect :— 



Ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit driipaceous, ■i-spinous . . . 1. Pedalium, 

 Ovules many in each cell. Fruit elongate capsular . . . 2. Semmtim. 

 II. Flowers in racemes. Stamens only 2 perfect :— 



Ovules many in each cell. Fruit drupaceous with dehiscent 

 pericarp and crustaceous 2-clawed endocarp . . . .8. Martynia. 



1. PEDALIUM, L. 



Herbs with opposite or alternate toothed leaves and solitary, 

 axillary yellow flowers with funnel-shaped corolla suddenly widening 

 fi'om a very small basal tube. Stamens 4 didynamous and a small] 

 staminode, included; anther-cells ovate separately pendulous fror 

 the top of the connective, opening above by short slits. Disc large 

 oblique. Ovary superior 2-celled, ovules 2 in each cell. Stigma! 

 swollen, gibbous at base, acuminate at apex. Fruit drupaceous withj 

 4 spreading spines near base, below which is a solid stipes, above 

 2-celled. Seeds 2 in each cell. 



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