Bahamodendron.~\ xxxvi. burserace*; (oliver). 327 



branchlets, imparipiunate, 5-7-foliolate, more rarely 3-foliolate, 2-3 in. long, 

 pubescent above, shortly tomentose beneath; lateral leaflets sessile or sub- 

 sessile, elliptical or oblong-elliptical, rather acute, rounded or slightly cordate 

 at base, entire, f-l| in. long, ±-\ in. broad ; terminal leaflet scarcely larger 

 than those of uppermost pair. Flowers 1-4, on short peduncles; pedicels 

 j-? in., pubescent. Calyx divided nearly to the base into 4 lanceolate-tri- 

 angular, subacute teeth. * Petals lanceolate, narrowed above and below, re- 

 curved at the tip. Four shorter stamens with apiculate anthers. Fruit 

 ovoid or subglobose, obtuse or subapiculate, pubescent. 

 Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi, Dr. Kirk! 



3. CANARITJM, Linn. ; Bentb. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 324. 



Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous. Calyx urceolate or cupulate, 3- 

 toothed or 3-fid ; lobes valvate, persistent. Petals 3, exceeding the calyx, 

 v alvate or slightly imbricate. Stamens 6 (in African species), inserted on 

 the margin or outer side of a fleshy entire or undulate disk ; filaments dis- 

 tinct. Ovary ovoid, 2-celled (in African species) ; ovules geminate ; stigma 

 sessile or subsessile, capitate. Drupe ovoid or ellipsoidal, with a bony 1- 

 seeded putamen. Cotyledons contortuplicate.— Trees. Leaves alternate, 

 lm paripinnate, exstipubite, the lowest pair of leaflets occasionally resembling 

 stipules. Flowers small, in axillary panicles. 



A considerable genus, most numerous in India and the Malayan region. The African 

 5"j* a PPcar to be confined to the continent, and differ from their allies in the more deeply 

 divided calyx and other characters which, however, do not warrant their generic sepa- 

 ration. ' 



leaflets 15-17, acuminate, l|-2 in. broad; petiolnle 1-2 lines . . 1. C. edule. 

 ballets 7, apiculate, 3^-5 in. broad ; petiolule 4-1 in 2. C. macrophylhnn. 



}■ C. edule, Hook. f. Ft. Nigrit. 285. Tree. Leaves imparipinnate, 

 *M7-foliolate ; leaflets rather coriaceous, subopposite or more or less ap- 

 proximated in pairs, from ovate- to oval-oblong, usually narrowly and often 

 somewhat abruptly acuminate, base oblique, glabrous above and at length 

 Ijeneath, excepting on the midrib which remains pubescent or shortly hispi- 

 jlulous ; lateral veins and reticulation rather prominent beneath ; upper leaf- 

 lets 4-6 iu. long, li-2 ill. broad ; lower smaller and lowest pair rotundate, 

 a Piculate, 1 i„. i n diam. or less. Petiolules 1-2 lines. Inflorescence in 

 narrow, axillary, shortly rusty-tomentose panicles, usually collected near the 

 ends of the branches, \-l ft. long, with short (^-2 in.) lateral peduncles 

 wearing several rather crowded or irregularly clustered flowers, subsessile or 

 * pedicels equalling the calyx. Flowers from lf-3 lines in length. Calyx 

 ^•Partite ; lobes broadly ovate, rather obtuse. Stamens 6. Ovary glabrous, 

 ''-celled ; stigma sessile or subsessile. (" Fruit oval, black, size of a hens 

 e Sg» 1 -celled, containing a large embryo, having 2 3-parted cotyledons, 

 Vofl )—Packi,lo6us edulis, Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 89. 



Vpper Guinea, St. Thomas's, Don ! Old Calabar, W. C. Thomson ! Camaroons river 

 Vcuit.vated), Mann ! I have not seen the fruit. . 



2 - C. macrophyllum, Olio. A tree of 30 ft. ; extremities, when dry, 



