514 xcvi. BIGN0XIACE3-: (speague). [Tecomaria. 



Leaflets 5-7, elliptic, obtuse, mucronulate . . 2. T. Nyassa. 



Leaflets 9-13, ovate, acutely acuminate . . .3. T. shirensis. 



1. T. capensis, Spach, Hist. Veg. Phan. ix. 137. A rambling 

 shrub about 6 ft. high. Branches subterete, minutely pubescent above, 

 o-labrescent below. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, 2-5 in. long; 

 leaflets 5-0 (rarely 3), shortly stalked, elliptic, orbicular or rhomboidal, 

 more or less oblique at the base, 6-15 lin. long, 4-9 lin. broad, (terminal 

 leaflet ovate, acuminate, 9-23 lin. long, 6-13 lin. broad, its petiole up to 

 6 lin. long), crenate, sometimes mucronulate, glabrescent above, pilose 

 in the axils of the veins below. Racemes of numerous 3-fiowered 

 cymes, or sometimes simple in the upper part; peduncle 1J-4 in. long, 

 usually overtopping the leaves ; rhachis and pedicels finely pubescent ; 

 bracts linear-subulate, caducous. Calyx 2-3| lin. long, strongly 

 ribbed, finely pubescent; tube 14—21 lin. long; lobes deltoid, 

 apiculate or acuminate, |— 1 lin. long, ciliate. Corolla orange- 

 red or scarlet; tube laterally compressed, 1-1 -J- in. long; lobes ovate, 

 obtuse, rather under \ in. long, ciliate. Capsule 3-5 in. long, 4-5 lin. 

 broad, apiculate. — Seem, in Journ. Bot. 1863, 21 ; Baill. Hist. PL x. 

 41 ; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pfianzenfam. iv. 3 B, 230, and in 

 Mart. Fl. Bras. viii. ii. 307 ; Schinz in Mem. Herb. Boiss. No. 10, 62; 

 Sprague in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 448, Tecomaria Krebsii, Klotzsch in 

 Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 193. T. Petersii, Klotzsch, I.e. 192. 

 Bignonia capensis, Thunb. Prodr. 105; Pers. Syn. ii. 172. Tecoma 

 capensis, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1117 ; DC. Prodr. ix. 223 ; Drege, Zwei 

 Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 136, 142, 156, 160; Harvey, Gen. S. Afr. 

 PL ed. i. 235, and ed. ii. 275 : Schinz in Bull. Trav. Soc. Bot. Geneve, 

 vi. (1891) 70 ; A. Zahlbruckner in Ann. Mus. Wien, xv. (1900) 70 ; 

 "Wood, Natal Plants, hi. 3, 24. t. 272. Ducoudrcea capensis, Bur. 

 Monogr. Bignon. 49, 145. 



Mozamb. Dist- Transvaal : Zoutspaus Berg ; Elim, Miagard Sf Creux. 



A South African species winch just crosses the Tropic of Capricorn. 



2. T. INTyassae, A'. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. O. 363. Branches 

 roughly quadrangular, minutely pubescent. Leaves opposite, long- 

 petioled, 4-5 in. long ; leaflets 5-7, very shortly stalked, elliptic, obtuse, 

 8-20 lin. long, 5-14 lin. broad, mucronulate, irregularly crenate-serrate, 

 glabrous above, lower surface with tufts of hairs in the axils of the 

 veins ; lateral leaflets oblique at the base. Racemes simple, dense ; 

 peduncle 6 in. long, overtopping the leaves ; rhachis and pedicels finely 

 pubescent ; bracts linear-subulate, caducous ; pedicels 6 lin. long. Calyx 

 7-9 lin. long, glandular, finely pubescent; tube ±h-oh lin. long; lobes 

 lanceolate, acuminate, 2i-41in. long. Corolla-tube 1 in. long or more ; 

 lobes broadly ovate, obtuse, \ in. long. — K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xxviii. 480. Tecoma Nyassce, Oliv. in Hook. Ic. PL t. 1351. 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : lower plateau, north of Lake Xyassa 

 Thomson ! Uhehe : Hio-uln Plateau, northern Uchungwe Mountains, Goetze^. 

 566. 



