790 xci. GESNERACE.E. [StrejMcmyus 



bright green, coarsely wrinkled and velvety-pubescent above, whitish- 

 shaggy scrobiculate and with thick pinnate nerves spreading beneath. 

 at length fleshy-thickened near the base, lying close to the ground ; 

 stem very short, fleshy, thickened, dichotomously or trichotomously 

 divided a little above the crown of the root into purple scape-hke some- 

 what thick rigid several-flowered occasionally foliate branches ; flowers 

 handsome, somewhat nodding, as large as those of a foxglove, violet- 

 blue, some cauline, others solitary near the central stem from the crown 

 of the root ; ,calyx deeply 5-cleft, scarcely 5-phyllous, short ; its lobes 

 1 in. long : corolla tubular-funnelshaped, sub-bilabiate, the segments 

 of the limb obtuse ; stamens 4, included, the posterior ones sterile ; the 

 filaments narrowly clavate, those of the interior stamens incurved ; 

 anthers sub-reniform, cohering ; ovary 1-celled, in form like the spike 

 of a Myosurus ; placentas many-ovuled ; style firm, cylindrical ; stigma 

 capitate-peltate, the apex thinly papillose, not bilabiate nor with 

 reniform lobes ; capsule elongate-cylindrical, 1;^ to 2 in. long ; the 

 valves 2, spirally twisted together ; seeds very numerous and small. 

 On rocky declivities close to the banks of the river Monino in Morro 

 de Monino, by rocks thinly covered with soil, at an elevation of 530O 

 to 5600 feet, rather rare ; fr. and very few fl. 10 and 12 May 18G0. 

 Xo. 1660 and Com.. C.vrp. 3(5 (not found) and 821. 



This species differs from N. Coopevi C. B. CL, /.'•., by the presence of 

 pubescence on the exterior of the corolla ; it may be identical with a 

 plant collected by Buchanan in 1891, n. 882, in Nyasaland. The solitary 

 radical leaf is regarded as a persistent cotyledon ; see Crocker in Jouru, 

 Linn. Soc. v. p. 65, t. 4 (18G0) and Dickie, I.e., ix. p. 12G (1865). 



XCII. BIGNONIACE^. 



The species of Bignoniacese found by Welwitsch in Angola and 

 Benguella are in great disproportion to the total number, which 

 amounts to between 500 and GOO ; this contrast is the more 

 striking, because tropical countries in other parts of the earth 

 form the principal seat of this Order. 



1. STENOLOBIUM D. Don in Edinb. Phil. Journ. ix. p.264 (1823). 

 Tecoma Juss., sect. Tecomaria, Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 



p. 1044. 



1. S. stans Seem. Journ. Bot. i. p. 88 (1863). 



Bignonia stans L. Sp. PI., edit. 2, p. 871 (1762). Tecoma stans 

 Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. p. 834 (1825). 



Sierra Leone. — A subscandent shrub, as tall as a man ; flowers 

 yellow. Cultivated in gardens at Freetown ; fl. Sept. 1853. Xo. 484. 



2. NEWBOULDIA Seem. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 1045. 

 1. N. Isevis Seem. (Journ. Bot. 1863 p. 225, and 1870 p. 337) : 



Bureau, Monogr. Bign. t. 15 (1864). 



S'pathodea Icevis P. Beauv. Fl. d'Owar. i. p. 48, t. 29 (1805?). 

 Bignonia africana Lam. Encycl. Meth. i. p. 424 (1783). 



Island of St. Thomas. — In the mountainous parts of elevated 

 primitive forests, at Fazenda de Monte Gaffe ; fl.-bud Dec. 1860. Xative 

 name " Quime.'' Represented in the British Museum by some fragments- 

 and a drawing of the specimen copied from the study set. No. 1259. 



