DR. B. SEEMANN ON THE CRESCENTIACE^. 11 



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 bracteosa, 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. CoLEA Telfaiui^ ; arborea ; ramis subcompressis, minutissime pubescentibus viscosis ; 

 foliis oppositis 6~9-jugis cum imparl, foliolis ovato-oblongis acuminatis lucidis, pani- 

 culis terminalibus laxis, calycis dentibus puberulis longiusculis acutis, corolla (rosea, 

 tubo ad faucem flavo fasciato) extus minute puberula, intus subglabra, lobis crenatis, 

 staminibus ovario styloque glabris, fructu longius cylindraceo acuminato carnoso 

 sublsevi. (v. sp. s.) 



Colea Telfairice, Bojer, Hort. Maurit. p. 220 (1837) ; DeCand. Prodr. ix. p. 242. n. 10. (1845). 



Bignonia Telfairice, 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 vernaculum Madagascariense : teste Bojer, " Vouen-Kici-Kicika." 



11. Colea tripinnata ; arborea ; ramis patentibus, foliis (oppositis ?) 3-jugis cum imparl, 

 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 Misc. ix. p. 84 



(1857). 

 Tripinna tripinnata, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (ed. Ulyssipol.) p. 391 (1790). 

 Tripinnaria Asiatica, Sprengl. Syst. ii. p. 842 (1822). 



Tripinnaria Cochinchinensis, Pers. Ench-. ii. p. 173 (1807); DeCand. Prodr. ix. p. 248 (1845). 

 Tanacium tripinna, Raeusch, ex Steudl. Nomen. Bot. p. 712 (1841). 

 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 ' Hora Cochinchi- 

 nensis ' contains about it :■ — " Cal. Perianthium cyathiforme, 5-crenatum, persistens. 

 Cor. monopetala, subcampanulata, patens ; tubo calycem superante, limbo 5-fldo ; laciniis 

 ovatis undulatis, villosis, summa majore. Stam. FUamenta 4 (quorum duo longiora) 

 coroUae subsequalia. Antheroi bicornes, incumbentes. Fist. Germen subrotundum. 

 Stylus soqualis staminibus. Stigma acutum, bifidum. Feric. Bacca ovata, carnosa, 

 1-locularis, polysperma. Sem. oblonga, compressa, pauca*. Nom. Tripinnam voeavi a 

 foliis tripinnatis. — Tripinna tripinnata ; fohis 3-pinnatis, foliolis ovatis acuminatis ; racemis 

 terminalibus. Hab. Arbor magna, ramis patentibus. Folia tripinnata t cum imparl 



* "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" here employed I take to mean "3-juga." — B. S. 



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