538 xcvi. bigxoniacejE (spuague). [Kigelia. 



10. K. aethiopica, Decne. in Deless. Ic. Sel. PI. v. 39, t. 93. A 



tree, 20-50 ft. high. Leaves ternate ; leaflets 7-11, oblong-elliptic or 

 obovate, usually cuspidate, 3-5 in. long, l£-2§ in. broad, entire or 

 more or less serrate, scabrid ; petioles of lateral leaflets 1-3 lin. long, 

 of the terminal £-1 in. long. Buds not distinctly cuspidate. Calyx 

 13-16 lin. long, markedly two-lipped, sparsely glandular above; tube 

 8-11 lin. long; lobes irregular, unequal, acute, 3-5 lin. long. Corolla 

 reddish-purple; tube 2f— 3£ in. long; lower cylindric portion 1£-1£ in. 

 long, markedly exceeding the calyx ; lobes 1J-1J in. long. Stamens 

 inserted 15-17 lin. above the base of the corolla-tube ; anthers 4J-5 

 lin. long. Disc entire. Ovary 4|— 5 lin. long, lepidote or glabrous. 

 Stigma-lobes ovate or elliptic. Fruit subcylindric, 1— If ft. long, 3-4^ 

 in. broad, pointed at the apex. — Martelli, FJ. Bogos. 64 ; Schweinf. 

 Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 97 ; K. Schum. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 43; 

 Almagia in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 122. K. pinnata, Oliv. in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 124, not of DC. Sotor cethiojmm, Fenzl in Ber. 

 xxi. Versamml. Deutsch. Naturf. 1843, 168. 



Wile Land. Without precise locality, Petherick ! Eritrea : Keren, 4500 ft., 

 Beccari, 4! Galabat : Matamma, Schweinfurth, 1954! Soudan: Khartoum, 

 Schweinf urtli, 963 ! 855 ! White Nile, Sabatier ! Sobat River, below AmoL 

 Muriel, 101! Bahr-el-Ghazal : Port Reck, SchioeinfurtA, 1267! Heughn, 341 

 Jur : Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 1346 ! Uganda : Madi, Grant ! 



Var. abyssinica, Sprague. Corolla smaller ; cylindric basal portion of tube 

 1 in. long. — K. abyssinica, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 60, t. 75. 



Nile Land, Alnssinia : by the River Mareb, Petit. Upper Sennav : 

 Fazokl, Kotschy, 403 ! Gebel Kassan, CienlcoivsJcy, 81 ! 82 ! 



Var. bornuensis, Sprague. Calyx 10-12 lin. long, puberulous ; lobes subequal. 

 Ovary and disc glandular ; stigma-lobes obovate. 



Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria : Bornu, Vogel, 83 ! 



Var. usambarica, Sprague. Leaflets very scabrid. Calyx 10 lin. long, 2- 

 lipped, puberulous. Corolla-tube 2 in. long; lobes 7 lin. long. Stamens inserted 

 12 lin. above the base ; anthers 3 lin. long, Stigma-lobes obovate. — K. athiopica, 

 Engl. Glied. Veg. Usambara, 34. 



IVIozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Usambara : scattered along the banks 

 of streams between Unite and Mlalo, Hoist, 2404 ! 



Order . XCVII. PEDALINE^. (By O. Stapf.) 



Flowers hermaphrodite, zygomorphic. Calyx divided nearly to the 

 base into 5 segments. Corolla gamopetalous ; tube obliquely campanu- 

 late, funnel-shaped or cylindric, often gibbous or spurred at the base of 

 the back ; limb obscurely 2-labiate, usually short. Stamens 4, more or 

 less distinctly didynamous with the rudiment of the fifth present (very 

 rarely 2 fertile and 2 staminodes), inserted and enclosed in the corolla- 

 tube, rarely shortly exserted ; anther-cells 2, dehiscent longitudinally, 

 hanging from the apex of the connective and often somewhat divergent, 

 or dorsally attached to it and parallel ; connective nearly always with 

 an apical gland. Hypogynous disc always more or less developed, often 



