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Synoptical and Specific Descriptions. 
sometimes nearly white. Drupe orange or red when ripe, r c.m. diameter. Frequent south of the Limpopo and occurs occasionally in M’Chopes and Gaza. 
Common in Natal and Cape Colony. For illustration see “ Forest Flora of Cape Colony,” 279, Plate CXVI. fig. 2. 
COROLLIFLORiSt. Group II. Section 2. 
Corolla more or less irregular. Perfect stamens usually 4. 
FAMILY XLIX.— BIGNONIACEiE. 
Trees, shrubs and scandent shrubs with (in local species) opposite and pinnate leaves and showy flowers in terminal or axillary racemes or panicles. Calyx bell-shaped, 
5-6 lobed ; corolla tubular, hypogynous, usually oblique at the mouth, and with a 5-6 lobed spreading limb, the 2 upper segments more connate than the others, imbricate in bud. 
Stamens 4, didynamous ; ovary 2-celled, many ovuled. Style slender, with stigma of 2 short flattened plates. Fruit a leathery capsule, 2-celled, 2-valved, the septum at right 
angles to the valves and remaining with the winged seeds attached after dehiscence ; or a woody or pulpy indehiscent fruit with many seeds. Seeds exalbuminous. 
193. KIGELIA. Fruit fleshy or woody, indehiscent ; seeds wingless ; cotyledons fleshy. Leaves pinnate ; flowers panicled, corolla sharply 5-lobed ; stamens 4, didynamous. 
Monotypic. 
K. pinnata, De Cand. Vern. names— 1, Cucumber tree; 2, Mundiro or Im-bundero ; 4, Fungura or Fongosi ; 10, 'l'ogo-rogo, Umtuberubu or Mlukutungwa ; 13, 
Umzingula or Um-fongote. A bushy tree, 7-10 c.m. high with a wide crown and a short clean bole sometimes 1 metre diameter, and considered one of the 
toughest indigenous timbers. Leaves scattered, sub-opposite, or often in whorls of 3 ; impari-pinnate, 15-30 c.m. long ; of 7-9 leaflets, which exceedingly variable in 
form, but usually obovate-oblong, rounded and mucronate at the apex, rounded, cordate or sometimes cuneate at the base, shortly petiolate or almost sessile, 7-10 
c.m. long, 3-5 c.m. wide, of firm brittle consistence, glabrous and light green above, paler or sometimes almost white below, with the midrib and about 6 side veins 
on each side standing in the relief and sometimes coloured brown. Inflorescence a loose raceme 20-60 c.m. long, 612 flowered, axillary or from old wood, each 
peduncle 3-5 c.m. long, subtended by a short bract. Calyx 3 c.m. long, 3-4-5 fid, corolla campanulate, brown, somewhat arched above and descending below, 7-8 
c.m. wide; upper lip 2-lobed ; other 3 lobes separate; stamens 4, shortly exserted ; style as long, stigma flattened out laterally. Fruit oblong-cylindrical, 15-3° 
c.m. long, 5-8 c.m. diameter, woody externally, with many seeds bedded in nearly solid pulpy substance. Abundant near Lourcnzo Marques and in Maputa and 
Marracuene ; present but not abundant from the Limpopo to Inhambane, present but scarce in the forests of Quelimane, Magenja da Costa and Nhamacurra. See 
“ Natal Plants,” Plates 386, 387. 
Plate LXXXII. i, Tree, general aspect (reduced) ; 2, Leaf ; 3, Raceme ; 4, Fruit (much reduced). 
194. TECOMA. Sub-erect or more or less scandent shrubs, having opposite impari-pinnate leaves and terminal inflorescence with large, showy, coloured flowers. C alyx bell- 
shaped, 5-toothed ; corolla-tube widening upward, the limb spreading, 5-lobed, the 2 upper lobes more connate than the others. Stamens 4, didynamous, with a 
rudimentary fifth ; anther-cells connate at the top only, and spreading widely. Capsules 2-celled, 2-valved, the septum at right angles to the valves. Seeds winged. 
A considerable and widely distributed genus. 
T. capensis, Lindl. ( = Tecomaria capensis, Spach.) Vern. names — 4, Longoloti ; 6, Insutihuti. A scandent shrub which in the sandy tracts of Zondemala and 
M’Chopes straggles on top of everything and makes a gorgeous display of its red flowers, which are 5 c.m. long, angular when young and with 2 knees on each angle, 
the limb spreading, 5-lobed; the 2 upper somewhat connate. Stamens longer than the tube, exserted. Capsule 10 c.m. long, 1 c.m. wide; seeds flat, winged. 
Leaves pinnate, about 7-foliate ; the leaflets ovate, 1-3 c.m. long, bluntly pointed and 4-7 toothed on each side. An ornamental garden creeper, but of no forcstal 
value. See “Forest Flora of Cape Colony,” 283, Plate CXIX. fig. 3 ; and “Natal Plants,” Plate 272. 
195. SPATHODEA. Trees or shrubs, with opposite impari-pinnate leaves, terminal racemes of showy flowers, obliquely rotate flowers; and dehiscent long, flat, leathery 
capsules containing many winged seeds. 
