xuv. SAPiNDACEiE (baker). [Beinbollia. 



oblong, unequal, much imbricated, brownish -drab and rather silky on the 

 back in the dried plant, the edge subscariose. Petals oblong-lanceolate, 

 yellow, slightly ciliated with a large ciliated appendage of the same texture 

 as the petal. 'Stamens 20-24, equalling the petals in the male flowers, the 

 filaments pubescent. Fruit as in D. pinnata.— D. grandifolia, Hook. f. 1. c. 



Upper Guinea. Cape Palmas, T. Vogell Fernando Po, T. Vogel! Mann! 

 Lower Guinea. Congo, Smith ! 



2. D. cuneifolia, Baker. A shrub with slender, glabrous, terete branches. 

 Petioles 4-5 in. long, slender, woody, the leaflets in about 4 pairs, 2-3 in. 

 from one another, the upper ones oblong, 5-6 in. long, 2-3 in. broad, the 

 point acute or acuminate, the base cuneate, narrowed into a petiolule * in. 

 long ; texture subcoriaceous, both sides quite glabrous, the upper bright green, 

 the lower with slender raised veins and veinlets. Flowers in long-stalked 

 axillary racemes 6-12 in. long, the flowers in clusters of 5-6 each; pedicels 

 equalling or exceeding the calyx, which is $ in. deep. Sepals coriaceous, 

 dark green, much imbricated. Petals small, spathulate, with a scale, sta- 

 mens 16, equalling the sepals; the filaments filiform, downy. Ovary with > 

 rounded lobes. Fruit not seen. 



Upper Guinea. Banks of the Bagroo river, Mann ! Sierra Leone, Barter ! 



3. D. pinnata, Schum. et Thonn. Gnin. PI. 242. A small tree with 

 strong, woody, glabrous or slightly grey- downy, terete branches. Petiole I 

 in. long; leaflets in 5-6 short-stalked pairs 1-2 in. apart, oblong, 3-4 in. 

 long, half as broad, the point acute, the base a little rounded, the edge 

 quite entire ; texture coriaceous, colour pale green, both sides glabrous or the 

 lower a little silvery with the veins and veinlets in relief. Flowers sub- 

 sessile,in a dense terminal panicle with short branches, and sessile, shorter, 

 and less compound sessile axillary ones. Calyx i in. deep, the sepals 

 membranous, glabrous, subrotund, unequal, the centre brown, the edge 

 becoming gradually subscarious. Petals 5, ligulate-oblong, 2 lines long, 

 ciliated, with a large woolly scale at the base. Stamens 8, equalling tn 

 corolla in the male flowers, the filaments filiform and densely clothed witn 

 white pubescence. Capsule 1-2, roundish, f-£ in. long, crustaceous, orang 

 coloured. 



Upper Guinea, Thonning ; Niger country, T. Vogel! Irving! Barter! 



4. D. lanrifolia, Baker. A tree with glabrous, terete, slender, woody 

 branches. Petioles 2-3 in. long in the upper leaves, 4-5 in. in the lower 

 ones, the leaflets in about 6 opposite or nearly opposite nearly sessile pairs, 

 oblong, 2-3 in. long by about half as broad, the point acute or acurninat , 

 the base rounded or subcuneate, the edge quite entire ; texture conaceou , 

 colour pale green, both sides quite glabrous, the lower with the veins an^ 

 veinlets in relief, the main ones connected by anastomosing veinlets a spac 

 within the edge. Flowers in a moderately large terminal panicle wi 

 spreading woody branches 2-3 in. long, the flowers crowded upwards ; P^ 

 dicels equalling the calyx, which is -§• in. long; the sepals the same colo^ 

 and texture as in D. pinnata, roundish and much imbricated. Petals oDl °"^' 

 ciliated, equalling the sepals, with a large woolly scale at the base. 



