Ferdinandia.] xcvi. bigxoniace.e (sprague). 51 < 



in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 332, partly (as regards the synonymy, excluding 

 Ease African localities). Heterophragma Ferdinandi, Britten in Journ. 

 Bot, 1895, 75. 



lower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto; forest in Sobuto de Bumba, at the 

 base of Serra de Alto Queta, 2200 ft., Welvo'dsch, 488 ! and fruit, TVelwilsch, 817 ; 

 Sange, fruit, Welwitsch, 816. 



The East African specimens referred here by Schumann in Engl. Jahrl. 

 xxxiii. 332 probably belong to F. magnified. Schumann seems to have overlooked the 

 existence of F. magnified .■ it is not mentioned in Engl. &• Fran/I, Pjlanzenfam. iv. 

 3 15. 213, nor in Engl. Fjl . Osl-Afr. 



2. F. magnifica, Seem, in Journ. Bot. 1870, 280 (Ferdinandoa 

 magnified). A glabrous shrub. Leaves 1 ft. or more in length ; leaflets 

 9-13, subsessile, ovate or ovate-oblong, rather long acuminate, unequally 

 obtuse at the base, 1-5 in. long, 8-21 lin. broad, finely reticulate on 

 both surfaces. Cymes axillary, corymbose, 4-10-flowered, 0-8 in. long 

 excluding the flowers ; pedicels 2-1 in. long. Buds oblong-ellipsoidal, 

 apiculate. Calyx glandular outside; tube 5-6 lin. long; lobes ovate- 

 deltoid, mucronulate, 3-5 lin. long. Corolla glabrous ; tube 2 in. long 

 or more, narrowed to a cylindric basal portion 2 lin. long; lobes 1 in. 

 long. Stamens inserted 3 lin. above the base of the corolla-tube ; 

 anther-lobes 1-5 lin. long; filaments much flattened. Ovary 4 lin. 

 long, glabrous. Ovules arranged in 4-0 irregular rows in each cell. — 

 Fernandoa magnifica, Seem, in Journ. Bot. 1871, 81. Femandia 

 Ferdinandi, K.'Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 332, partly (as regards 

 the East African localities, excluding synonymy). Heterophragma 

 longipes, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 181)4, 31. 



Wile Land. British East Africa : near Mombasa, WaJcefield ! 



Mozamb, JJist. German East Africa: Umba Valley, Kcissner, 83! Lake 

 Chidia, near the Rovmna River, Kirk .' 



4. STEREOSPERMUM, Cham. ; Bureau in Aclansonia, ii. 191 ; 

 Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 1047, partly. 



Calyx opening early in bud, campanulate or tubular, irregularly 

 2— 5-lobcd. Corolla campanulate-funnel-shaped or funnel-shaped ; limb 

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

 (in S. harmsianum, the longer pair sometimes exserted) ; anther-lobts 

 free, divergent. Disc annular or cupular, entire or lobeel, Ovary 

 oblong-linear or oblong, quadrangular. Ovules biseriate in each cell. 

 Capsule linear, cylindric or 4-angled. Seeds winged at each end ■ 

 nucleus ridged and fitting into a deep pit in the cylindric septum. 

 Cotyledons folded. — Trees with imparipinnate leaves and terminal 

 many-flowered panicles of pink, lilac or yellow flowers. 

 Species about 11, the others in Tropical Asia and Madagascar. 

 Calyx campanulate, 2+-3-J- lin. long ; bracts not 



folLi'ceous . . . . . . . « 1 . IS. Jcunthianum. 



Calyx tubular, 6-10-J- lin. long ; bracts foliaceous. 



Calyx and leaflets glabrous . . . . .2. S.'acuminatisnnvum. 



