22 DR. B. SEEMANN ON THE CRESCENTIACE.E. 
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DeCandolle (Prodr. ix. p. 247) enumerates only one species of Kigelia, viz. K. pinnata, 
DeCand. adding as synonyms Crescentia pinnata, Jacq., Tancecium pinnatwn, Willd., 
and Tripinnaria Africana, Spreng.,— an arrangement in which I fully concur. Decaisne 
has, since the publication of the ninth volume of the * Prodromus/ described as a second 
species K. JEJthiopica (DeLessert, Icon. 39, t. 93 A et B), and Bentham (Hook. Niger 
Flora, p. 463) subsequently a third, K. Africana, uniting with the latter the old 
Bignonia Africana of Lamarck, which DeCandolle enumerates amongst his doubtful 
Bignonias. A comparison of the various descriptions and specimens of these three 
supposed species has convinced me that all are one and the same species, the original K. 
pinnata, upon which the genus was founded, and which has for nearly a century been an 
inmate of our gardens. K. Abyssinica, A. Rich., the genus Sotor, established by Fenzl 
upon Kotschy's specimens (n. 403), and Tecoma Africana, Don, are also synonyms of 
Kigelia pinnata. 
1. Kigelia pixnata. (v. sp. s. et v. cult.) 
Kigelia pinnata, DeCand. Prodr. ix. p. 24/ ; Seem, in Hook. Journ. and Kew Misc. vi. p. 277. 
Bignonia Africana, Lam. Diet. i. p. 424. 
Kigelia Mthiopica, Dene, in DeLessert, Nov. Selec. v. p. 39. A et B ; Wlprs. Rep. vi. p. 517- 
Kigelia Africana, Benth. in Hook. Niger Flora, p. 463 ; Wlprs. Ann. iii. p. 93. 
Kigelia Abyssinica, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. p. 60, t. 75 ; Wlprs. Ann. iii. p. 93. 
Sotor, Fenzl, Vortrag iiber eine Crescentiaceen-Gattung, p. 1. 
Crescentia pinnata, Jacq. Coll. iii. p. 203, t. 18. icon floris. 
- Tancecium pinnatum, Willd. Spec. iii. p. 312. 
Tecoma Africana, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. p. 224. 
Nomina vernacula : in Abyssinia, teste Richard, "Meder Deur •" in Nubia, teste Kotschy, "Sotor;" in 
Mozambico, teste DeCandolle, a Kigelikeia f et in Africa australi, ad ripas fluminis Zongha, teste 
Oswald, a Maropotla" dicitur. 
Geogr. Distr. Nubia ( Kotschy ! n. 403) ; White Nile (Sabatierl) ; Abyssinia (Quartin Dillon ! Petit ! 
in Herb. Par.); Mozambique (teste DeCandolle) ; Bornu (Ed. Vogel\); Port Natal (Garden !) ; 
Senegal (Don, Adanson ! in Herb. Juss.) ; Cape Coast Castle (Th. Vogell); River Zongha, lat. 26° S. 
(Oswald \) ; and at the Great Lake of South Africa (according to specimens at Kew). Cultivated in 
European gardens. 
