Catophracte8.] xcvi. bignoniace^; (spkague). 538 



9. CATOPHRACTES, D. Don ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 

 PI. ii. 1048. 



Calyx opening late in bud, tubular, shortly split clown one side, ter- 

 minated by 5 linear teeth. Corolla funnel-shaped with a long cylindric 

 tube ; limb subbilabiate ; lobes 5 (more rarely 0-7), spreading. Stamens 

 as many as the corolla-lobes, all perfect, subincluded ; anther-lobes con- 

 nate above, free and parallel below. Disc cupular. Ovary contracted 

 at the base ; ovules few, 2-seriate in each cell. Capsule elliptic or 

 ellipfcic-oblong, slightly compressed parallel to the septum ; valves boat- 

 shaped, woody, sharply wartecl. 



Species 1, which extends into South Africa. 



I. C. Alexandri, 1). Don in Ann. <k Mag. Nat. Hist. ii. (1830), 

 375. An erect spiny shrub, 4-6 ft. high, branched from the base. 

 Branches divaricate, glabrous. Leaves simple, fascicled, densely 

 tomentose ; petiole l-2h lin. long; blade obovate or oblong, ^— 1-J in. 

 long, 2-8 lin. broad, crenate, with conspicuous lateral veins. Flowers 

 lateral, fascicled. Calyx densely tomentose outside ; tube 1-1 h in. 

 long, shortly split down one side, ribbed ; teeth 3—4 lin. long. Corolla 

 white ; tube 2-2 1 - in. long, with a broad villous band inside below the 

 origin of the filaments ; limb lf^2| in. across ; lobes suborbicular, 9-14 

 lin. in diam. Filaments either adnate for their whole length or the 

 upper -\- in. free ; anthers 2|— 3 lin. long, their tips exserted from the 

 corolla-tube. Ovary ovoid, lty lin. long, scabrous with scurfy thick- 

 based hairs ; style slightly longer than the stamens in the flowers with 

 adnate filaments, slightly shorter in those Avith free filaments, very 

 sparsely villous below the middle. Capsule li-3 in. long, 9-14 lin. 

 broad, shortly beaked. Nucleus of seed suborbicular ; hyaline wing 

 2-3 lin. broad. — Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 4 ; Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 307, t. 22 ; 

 DC. Prodr. ix. 233 ; 0. Kuntze in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berlin, iv. 270 ; 

 Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. x. 255 ; K. Schum. in Engl. &, Prantl, Pflanzen- 

 fam. iv. 3 B. 233 ; Spraguein Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 453. O. fVehoitschi, 

 Seem, in Journ. Bot. 1865, 331, t. 39 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl.Welw. i. 

 793. C. holbeana, Harv. Gen. S. Afr. PI. ed. ii. 276. 



Iiower Guinea, Angola : Bumho ; between Poraangala unci Quitibe, 1000- 

 1200 ft., Welwitsch, 490 ! and fruit, 819 ; near Pomangala, Welwitsch, fruit, 818. 

 German South-west Africa : Damaraland, Kolbe ! Hereroland ; Usakos, 2950 ft., 

 Marloth f 1271 ; and without precise locality, Pechuel-Loesche. 



Mozamb. Dist. Bechuanaland : Ngamiland; Kwebe Hills, Lugard, 65! 

 Mrs. Lugard, 83 ! near Lake Ngami, Chapman ! Baines ! Chapman <fy Haines ! 



Also in South Africa. 



10. KIGELIA, DC. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 1053. 



Calyx opening late in bud, campanulate, coriaceous, irregularly 

 2— 5-lobed. Corolla broadly campanulate above, narrowed below to a 

 straight, cylindric or constricted tube; limb bilabiate; upper lip sub- 



