WELWITSCnri ITER ANGOLENSE. 331 
Majesty Ferdmand, King of Portugal, the munificent patron of his 
African explorations. In working out the Bignoniaceae I found that 
it constitutes a very distinct new genus, with \\-hich Dr. Welwitsch was 
desirous of further identifying his Majesty, by conferring upon it the 
manuscript name ^^ Ferd'mandia " — a name which I have great pleasure 
in adof)ting. 
Catophracles JFehcitscJd (sp. nov.), Seem. (Tab. XXXIX.) ; caule 
ramis spinis calycibusqne niveo- v. subflavido-villoso-tonientosis demum 
glabratis; foliis oppositis v. fascieulatis brevipetiolatis ovalibus v. 
Gvali-oblongis grosse crenatis utrinque dense niveo- v. subflavido- 
tomentosis; floribus axillaribus sessilibus solitariis v. in extremitatem 
ramorum capitatim aggregatis, 5-6-mcris ; coroUae glabra? (albas) tubo 
curvato, intus lineis 5-6 villosis, limbo patenti, laciniis obovatis ob- 
tusis ; filamentis corollse tubo supra adhserentibus, ima basi glabris ; 
ovario villoso ; stylo elongato; stigmate 2-IamelIato; capsula ovali utrin- 
que attenuata compressa echinata glabra, 3-loculari, loculicide 2-valvi, 
seminibus oo, transversis, compressis, alatis ad quodque septi latus co- 
serialibus. — Distr. Monamedes (Welwitsch ! Iter Angolense, n. 490). 
The discovery of this plant shows the genus CatopJiractes^ w'hich 
Don established upon a mere scrap from Namaqua Land, to be a 
sound one, belonging to Cataljpece^ and closely related to Rhigozum^ 
from which it principally differs in the nature and shape of the calyx, 
the echinate capsv\le and the seeds being arranged in several rows on 
each side of the septum. The scrap, which served for Don's description, 
is nowhere to be found, but the drawing published of it, in the Linn. 
Transactions, is believed to be accurate. Assuming that to be the 
case, I cannot consider Dr. Welwitsch's plant as identical with C. Alex- 
andri; though it comes very near to it. A striking difference is obser- 
vable in the insertion of the stamens. In C. Alexandri the filaments 
rise distinctly from the base of the corolla-tube, and their starting- 
point is indicated by viUose hair. In C. WehcUacJu the filaments 
are inserted in the throat of the corolla, and the filaments so closely 
merged into the body of the corolla as to be scarcely traceable lower 
down; they certainly do not terminate in a woolly point, — the 
villose lines observable at the base of the corolla-tube alternating with 
the veins indicative of the filaments. " Frutex 4-6-pedalis, erectus, 
a basi ramosus, in juventute totus niveo-tomentosus. Eami patentes, 
graciles, ramulis plurimis in spinis subulatis acutissimis demum atro- 
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