Ferdinandia'] xcii. liKiXONiACE.E. 793 



velvety outside witli a violet-i)urple felt, obscurely quadrangular at tho 

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

 •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 tieshy disk and also a little imbedded in it, hispid-tomentose 

 outside, apparently bilocular ; the ovuliferous placeuta 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, 1 h ft. and upwards, often 3 ft. long. In the bushy wooded 

 parts of the primitive forest in Sobato de Bumlja, at the base of Sena 

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

 with Iiitda ciKnizeunis O. Kuntze (Welw. Herb. no. t>2S) and Oncnba 

 M'clwitschU. Oliv. (Welw. no. 537) ; fl. Xov. and Dec. ISaj, and Feb. 

 to April 1^57 ; leaves fully open Jan. 1857 : fr. beginning of July 

 1857. No. 488 and Coi.i.. Caki'. 817. Capsules cylindrical-subulate, 

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

 Sange ; fr. beginning of Jan. 185(). C<»ll. Caim'. 81(). 



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

 Portugal, who constantly favoured and encouraged Welwitsch in his 

 travels in Angola. 



G. CATOPHRACTES 1 ). Don ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 

 p. 1048. 



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



Br. M lit). — Stem and leaves clothed with a snow-white felt ; the 

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

 liowers milk-white in the living state. About 15^ S. Lat., in moun- 

 tainous bushy rocky and gravelly places, about GO geographical miles 

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

 Pomangala and Quitibe, tolerably plentiful : fr. and few H. June 18(30. 

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

 fr. Oct. 1859. Coll. Cakp. 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 Pomaugala, plentiful : fl. and fr. beginning 

 of June 18(;o. Coll. Caup. 819. 



Bentham c^' Hooker, l.r., p. 1049, unite this with tho original species 

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

 t. 22 (1840). 



7. KIGELKEIA Bafin. Sylva Tellur. p. 16G (1838). 



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

 p. 1G8 (1844). Kiyelia DC. Prodr. ix. p. 247 (1845) ; Benth. k 

 Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 1U53. 



1. K. pinnata. 



Crescentia pinnata Jacq. Collect, iii. p. 203, t. 18 (1789). Tiuio- 

 ■ciutn pinnatum Willd. Sp. PI. iii. p. 312 (1801). Tripinuaria 

 africana Spi-eng. Syst. ii. p. 842 (1825). Sotor cpthioplaun Fenzl, 

 I.e. Klgdia pinnata DC, I.e. ; 8eem. Journ. Bot. 18G5, p. 333. 



GonNcio Alto.— A tree, 10 to 35 ft. high : trunk G 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, con.spicuous from afar. 



