I Schmidelia.] xliv. sapindace*: (baker). 423 



1 about 4 in. long by half as broad, the point bluntish, the edge very nearly 

 entire, texture subcoriaceous, upper surface dark green and glabrous, lower 

 nnely grey-downy all over with the main veins rather prominent. Flowers 

 in I copious terminal panicle and in smaller axillary ones on firm, woodv, 

 nnely grey-downy peduncles, 1-2 in. long. Branches racemose, the flowers 

 ■J d «l, about | line long. Sepals boat-shaped and ciliated; the petals 

 snorter than the sepals, villose on the inner face. Stamens exserted. Ovaries 

 ovoid, villose. Mature fruit not seen. 



"PPer Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Niger country, ravine near Nupe, Barter! 

 eneral habit of S. africana, from which it differs by its shorter spikes and entire leaflets 

 My downy beneath. 



6 S. mbifolia, Hochst. in Rich. Fl. 'Abyss, i. 103. A low tree, with 



nnely grey-downy, slender, terete, ultimate branches. Petioles 1-1| in. long, 



gender, downy. Leaflets 3, obovate-cuneate, the central one slightly stalked, 



a in. long by half as broad, broadest more than halfway up, the point 



acute, the edge irregularly inciso-repand, the lower third entire and nar- 



w v cuneate, texture membranous, upper surface deep green, nearly glabrous. 



ffer pale green and finely grey-downy all over, the veins not prominent. 



owers in simple or slightly branched racemes, 2-3 in. long, on short downy 

 Fj uncles from the axils of the leaves. Pedicels equalling or exceeding the 

 J x > w hich is | line long, the sepals boat-shaped, much imbricated. Petals 

 tu h" g ' glal)r0U8 > equalling the sepals, with a small villose scale. Cocci 1-2, 



r mate, black, coriaceous, £ in. long, glabrous when mature. 



Jle Land. Abyssinin, Schimper! 



"lozamb. Distr. Senna, Shiramba and Shupanga, Zambesi-land, Br. Kirk ! 

 ;„ e Sout nern species may be distinct. The flowers are nearly sessile, bnt they are only 

 fc Io/ OUU \ State ' wnil8t m lhc Abyssinian the pedicels are, in some of the specimens, twice 

 <W,u 8 ? s t ° e flow er. In the latter the racemes are all simple, but in the other, consi- 

 erabl y branched. 



J' ®* magica, Baker. A shrub, 10 ft. high, with slender, terete ulti- 

 te branches, thinly clothed with fine, spreading, ferruginous, silky hairs. 

 eun , sIender > H-2 in. long, downy like the branches. Leaflets 3, oblong 

 bro 1 the central one short-stalked, 3-4 in. long by about half as broad, 

 W ^° re than nalfw ay up, the point acute, the upper half toothed, the 

 full** entUe antl narrowly cuneate, texture thinly membranous ; upper surface 

 v g . reen a nd glabrous, 'lower paler and finely loosely downy. Flowers in 



2 f sim ple racemes, 3-4 in. long, on pedicels 1-2 in. long, from the 

 main }^ e leaves - Ped i c els equalling the globose flowers, downy like the 

 ! n raclns and broadly imbricated boat-shaped sepals. Calyx not more than 

 glob g - Petal8 equalling the sepals. Stamens exserted. Cocci 1-2, 

 L,° Se ' * in - each way, sessile, scarlet, ultimately glabrous.— Ormtrophe 



9 a ' bch um. et Thonn. Guin. PI. 186. 

 «u5 Pe ,f ° ui *ea. Guinea, Thonning I banks of the Niger at Nupe and near the con- 



»* S » thyr»oidei Baker. A much-branched shrub, with scabrous- 

 Qcta te branches. Leaves short-slalked, the leaflets 1-jugate, rarely ter- 



