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DeCandolle followed him ; but, probably by some oversight, the celebrated author of the 
* Prodromus ' enumerated it a second time in his great work as Bignonia bractcosa, with 
which genus (if the fruit be fleshy) it can have nothing to do. The imparipinnate leaves 
with quite entire leaflets are also a feature not met with in any genuine species of 
Bignonia. 
10. Cole A Telfairi^: ; arborea ; ramis subcompressis, minutissime pubescent ibus viscosis ; 
foliis oppositis 6-9-jugis cum impari, foliolis ovato-oblongis acuminatis lucidis, pani- 
culis terminalibus laxis, calycis dentibus puberulis longiusculis acutis, corol la (rosea, 
tubo ad faucem flavo fasciato) extus minute puberula, intus subglabra, lobis crenatis, 
staminibus ovario styloque glabris, fructu longius cylindraceo acuminato carnoso 
sublaevi. (v. sp. s.) 
Colea Telfairice, Bojer, Hort. Maurit. p. 220 (1837) ; DeCand. Prodr. ix. p. 242. n. 10. (1845). 
Bignonia Telfairia, Boj. MSS., in Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2976 exclud. fig. 2 (1830). 
Geogr. Distr. Province of Emirna, Madagascar (Bojer !), where it is also cultivated on account of its edible 
fruit. 
Nomen 
Kici 
11. Colea tripinnata ; arborea ; ramis patentibus, foliis (oppositis ?) 3-jugis cum impari 
foliolis (petiolulatis ?) ovatis acuminatis glabris, paniculis terminalibus, calyce cyathi 
formi 5-crenato, corolla (luteo-rubra) subcampanulata, laciniis ovatis undulatis villosis 
ovario subrotundo styloque . . . ., fructu ovato, seminibus oblongis compressis. 
Colea tripinnata, Seem, in Bonplandia, iv. p. 128 (1856); Hook. Journ. of Bot. and Kew 
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Tripinnaria Asiatica, Sprengl. Syst. ii. p. 842 (1822). 
Tripinnaria Cochinchinensis, Pers. Ench. ii. p. 173 (1807) 
Tancecium tripinna, Raeusch, ex Steudl. Nomen. Bot. p. 7 
790) 
Nomen vernaculum Cochinchinense : "A Cay Den" 
Geogr. Distr. Cochinchina (teste Loureiro). 
As there are no specimens of this plant in Europe to supply the deficiencies of Lou- 
reiro' s character, it may not be superfluous to add here all that the * Flora Cochinchi- 
nensis* contains about it: — "Cat. Ferianthium cyathiforme, 5-crenatum, persistens. 
Cor. monopetala, subcampanulata, patens ; tubo calycem superante, limbo 5-fido ; laciniis 
ovatis undulatis, villosis, summa majore. Stam. Filamenta 4 (quorum duo longiora) 
corollse subaequalia. Anther ce bicornes, incumbentes. Fist. Germen subrotundum. 
Stylus sequalis staminibus. Stigma acutum, bifidum. Feric. Bacca ovata, carnosa, 
1-locularis, polysperma. Sem. oblonga, compressa, pauca*. Norn. Tripinnam vocavi a 
foliis tripinnatis.— Tripinna tripinnata ; foliis 3-pinnatis, foliolis ovatis acuminatis ; racemis 
terminalibus. Hab. Arbor magna, ramis patentibus. Folia tripinnata f cum impari 
pauca " is probably a misprint for "parva," as just before the berry is termed " POLYspermous" by Loureiro, 
and as the seeds of all Coleas are small. — B. S. 
f The term " tripinnata 
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3-juga."— B. S. 
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