Tecomaria.] xuvi. bigxoxiace.e (spkague). 515 



3. T. shirensis, K. Schum: in Engl, Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 363 (T. 

 schirensis). A shrub, 4-1 ft. high. Branches subterete or roughly 

 angled, minutely pubescent. Leaves opposite or ternate, long-petioled, 

 4-!l in. long; leaflets 9-13, distinctly stalked, ovate, actitely acuminate, 

 9-33 lin. long, 4^-15 lin. broad, serrate, glabrous above, lower surface 

 with tufts of hairs in the axils of the glabrescent veins ; lateral leaflets 

 oblique or rounded at the base. Racemes dense, simple or bearing 

 3 flowered cymes below ; peduncle 2-4J in. long, equalling or over- 

 tupping the leaves ; rhachis and pedicels pubescent ; bracts linear- 

 subulate, caducous; pedicels 3-4 lin. long. Calyx 5-7 lin. long, slightly 

 pubescent ; tube 3-J— 4 1 - lin. long ; lobes deltoid or ovate-deltoid, acumi- 

 nate, 2-8 lin. long. Corolla orange ; tube about 1 in. long ; lobes 

 broadly ovate, obtuse, | in. long. Capsule 4-J- in. long, ^ in. broad, 

 beaked. — Tecoma shirensis, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 30; Sprague 

 in Bot. Mag. t. 7970. T. Whytei, C. H. Wright in Kew Bulletin, 1897, 

 275. T. nyikeasis, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1898, 159. 



Kozamb. SMst. German East Africa : (a pubescent form), Bnsse, 174 ! 

 British Central Africa: Nyasaland, 2000-7000 ft.; Luagwa River, McClounie, 

 149 ! Nyika Plateau, Whyte, 112 ! between Mpata and commencement of 

 Tanganyika Plateau, Whyte! Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 219! 925! Zoml>a 

 Plateau. Whyte! Mount Malosa, Cameron, 13 ! Tuchila Plateau, on Mount Mlanji, 

 Purees, 15 ! 



2. PODEANEA, Sprague in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 449. 



Calyx opening early in bud, regular, campanulate, 5-lobed, inflated. 

 Corolla campanulate above, narrowed to a cylindric tube below; limb 

 slightly bilabiate ; lobes subequal, spreading. Stamens 4, included ; 

 anther-lobes free except at the very apex, divaricate when mature. 

 Disc cupular. Ovules 8-seriate in each cell. Capsule linear, scarcely 

 compressed. — Shrubs and undershrubs with opposite, simply impari- 

 pinnate leaves and terminal panicles of pink or lilac flow T ers. 



Species 2, the other one in South Africa. 



1. P. Brycei, Sprague. A. nearly glabrous, scanclent undershrub, 

 about 1 -i ft. high. Stem slender, quadrangular, finely ribbed, minutely 

 lepidote in the grooves, pubescent at the nodes. Leaves from 4 in. 

 long upwards; leaflets 9-11, stalked, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, long- 

 acuminate, 9-21 lin. long, 3-6 lin. broad, slightly serrate, obscurely 

 glandular on the lower surface, otherwise glabrous. Panicle termina i , 

 lax, 3-4 in. long; branches short, 3-flowered. Calyx campanulate, 

 minutely and densely lepidote, the upper part glandular; tube 

 4-6 lin. long and broad; lobes ovate-deltoid, 3-4 lin. long, mucronate, 

 reflexed on or before the opening of the corolla. Corolla pale mauve, 

 glabrous outside, villous inside at the throat and the insertion of 

 the stamens ; tube 15-18 lin. long, 9 lin. in diam. at the throat, abruptly 

 campanulate above; lower cylindric portion 3^-4 lin. long; lobes 

 suborbicular, 6-11 lin. long, ciliate. Anther lobes elliptic-oblong, 1 i lin. 

 long. Capsule up to 1 ft. long, 7 lin. broad. Seeds 7 lin. long, 5-5£ lib. 

 broad. — Tecoma Brycei, X. E. Brown in Kew Bulletin, 1901, 130. 



