22 DR. B. SEEMANN ON THE CRESCENTIACE^. 



DeCandolle (Prodr. ix. p. 247) enumerates only one species of Kigelia, viz. K. pinnata, 

 DeCand. adding as synonyms Crescentia pinnata, Jacq., Tanmcium 2^innatum, Willd., 

 and Tripinnaria Africana, Spreng., — an arrangement in whicli I fully concur. Decaisne 

 has, since the publication of the ninth volume of the ' Prodromus,' described as a second 

 species K. jEtliiopica (DeLessert, Icon. 39, t. 93 A et B), and Bentham (Hook. Niger 

 Plora, p. 4.63) 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 sjoecimens 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 pinnata. (v. sp. s. et v. cult.) 



Kigelia pinnata, DeCand. Prodr. ix. p. 247; Seem, in Hook. Journ. and Kew Misc. vi. p. 27/. 



Bignonia Africana, Lam. Diet. i. p. 424. 



Kigelia ^thiopica, 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, " Kigelikeia ■" et in Africa austral!, ad ripas fluminis Zongha, teste 



Oswald, " Maropotla" dicitur. 

 Geogr. Distr. Nubia { Kotschy \ n. 403) ; White Nile {Sabatier \) ; Abyssinia {Quartin Dillonl Petit \ 



in Herb. Par.); Mozambique (teste DeCandolle); Bornu {Ed. Vogell); Port Natal {Garden \) ; 



Senegal {Don, Adansonl in Herb. Juss.) ; Cape Coast Castle {Th. Vogell); River Zongha, lat. 26° S. 



{Oswaldl) ; and at the Great Lake of South Africa (according to specimens at Kew). Cultivated in 



European gardens. 



