516 xcvi. bignoniace.e (speague). [Poclranea. 



Mazamb. Dist. Maslionaland : in dry places, -±500 ft., Bryce ! Rhodesia : 

 Buluwayo, near streams, Franklin White! 



Closely allied to P. ricasoliana, Sprague, from which it differs in the early 

 reiiexed calyx-lobes and the smaller, more abruptly campanulate corolla, which is 

 villous within, and has the busal cylindric portion included in the calyx-tube. 



3. FEEDINANDIA, Welw. ex Seem, in Journ. Bot. 1865, 330. 



Calyx opening late in bud, campanulate, unequally 3— i-lobed. 

 Corolla broadly campanulate, narrowed below to a short cylindric or 

 constricted portion ; limb slightly bilabiate. Stamens 4, slightly exserted 

 from the corolla-tube ; anther-lobes divaricate. Disc cupular. Ovules 

 pluriseriate in each cell. Capsule cylindric, spirally twisted ; septum 

 thick, flattened. Seeds oblong, winged at the ends. — Trees or shrubs. 

 Leaves opposite, imparipinnate. Flowers large in axillary corymbose 

 cymes produced after the fall of the subtending leaves. — Fernandoa, 

 Seem, in Journ. Bot. 1866, 123. Ferdinandoa, Seem. I.e. 1870, 280. 

 Ferdinanda, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 1047. Fernandia. Baill. 

 Hist. PL x.47. K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pnanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 243. 



Species 2, endemic. 



The Asiatic genus Heterophragma, to which Ferdinandia lias been reduced by 

 certain authors, differs in having- a terminal inflorescence and an annular disc. 

 Calyx and lower surface of leaflets pubescent or 



tomentose; peduncle very short . . . . 1. F. superha. 



Calyx and lower surface of leaflets glabrous (disre- 

 garding glands) ; peduncle long . . . .2. F. magnified. 



1. P. siiperba, Welw. ex Seem, in Journ. Bot. 1865, 330, tt. 37-38. 

 A tree, 25-40 ft. high, almost leafless at the time of flowering. Young 

 shoots and leaves finely and densely pubescent. Leaves up to 1 ft. 

 long , rhachis pubescent ; leaflets 7-13, shortly petioled, elliptic-oblong, 

 shortly acuminate, unequally cuneate at the base, 1-4 in. long, 9-26 lin. 

 broad, finely reticulate and glabrescent above, finely and densely pubes- 

 cent below. Cymes axillary, corymbose, 5-9 -flowered, 2 in. long 

 excluding the flowers, finely tomentose ; pedicels under 2 in. long. 

 Buds ellipsoidal. Calyx tomentose outside with violet-purple hairs, 

 glandular; tube 5-7 lin. long; lobes ovate-deltoid, subacute or mucronu- 

 late, 4-6 lin. long. Corolla orange-scarlet with blood-reel stripes inside, 

 puberulous outside ; tube 1| in. long, broadly campanulate above, con- 

 stricted 2-3 lin. above the base; lobes 1 in. long. Stamens inserted 

 6 lin. above the base of the corolla-tube; anther lobes 2 lin. long 

 Ovary 3-4 lin. long, greyish tomentose. Ovules arranged in 8 or more 

 rows in each cell. Capsule cylindric-subulate, angular, spirally twisted, 

 2 ft. long; septum 2-3 lin. thick, 7 lin. broad. Seeds 1-1 4; in. long 

 including" the wings, 4-5 lin. broad. — Hiern, Cat. Afr. PL Welw. i. 792. 

 Bignonia Fcrdinandi, Welw. Apont. Phyto-geogr. 584. Ferdinandoa 

 saperba, Seem, in Journ. Bot. 1870, 280. Fernandia sivperba, Baill. 

 Hist. PL x. 48. Fernandia Fernandi, K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, 

 Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 243, fig. 92 g. Fernandia Ferdinandi, K. Schum. 



