434 xliv. sapindace^: (baker). [Bemma. 



semiatmular or subcomplete, elevated. Stamens 4-5, centrical, inserted 

 within the disk, all connate or the 2 front ones connate at the base. Ovary 

 oblong, subterete, 4-5-celled. Style elongated, curved ; stigma pyramidal, 

 truncate. Ovules solitary, erect from the base of the cells. Capsule globose, 

 woody, 4-5-celled, dehiscence loculicidal ; valves septiferous at the middle. 

 Seeds arillate, albumen dense ; embryo straight. — Trees and shrubs. 

 Confined to Africa, 2 species occurring at the Cape. 



§ Eubersama. Stamens all connate at the base. 



Rachis of leaves broadly winged upwards \. B. maxima. 



Rachis of leaves not winged 2. B. ahjssmica. 



%\ Natalia. (Hochst. Flora, 1841, 663 ; Rhaganus, E. Meyer iu 



Herb. Drege.) . . , 



Only the lower stamens united 3. B. paulhntoutei. 



1. B. maxima, Baker. A tree 25 ft. high with strong woody branches, 

 finely grey-downy when young. Petiole strong, woody, 3-4 in. long, &"" 

 pules ovate-acuminate, coriaceous, glabrous on the back, 1^-3 in. long, clasp- 

 ing the base of the petiole and connate inside it as in the other species. 

 Full-grown leaf 2£-3 ft. long, imparipinnate, with 6-7 pairs of sessile ob- 

 long leaflets 2-3 in. apart, narrowed gradually to both ends, the point acute, 

 the base subcuneate, the edge entire, the rachis between the upper ones with a 

 wing \ in. broad on each side ; texture membranous, both sides quite glabrous. 

 Flowers hermaphrodite in a dense raceme 1 ft. long, 1^ in. broad, on a strong 

 woody peduncle 3-4 in. long, which, like the axis, is densely grey-downy , 

 pedicels 3-4 lines long, with linear silky bracts at the base about half as Ion?. 

 Calyx } in. deep, campanulate, coriaceous, densely brownish-grey-silky cm the 

 back, the teeth oblong-deltoid, reaching about halfway down, unequal, the 

 lowest 2-fid. Petals hgulate-oblong, three times as long as the calyx, gla- 

 brous upwards, the claw silky, finally reflexed, the lowest much smaller thau 

 the others. Stamens 4, monadelphous, equalling the corolla. Style elongate", 

 equalling the stamens, sometimes twisted. Capsule globose, bony, 1 in> 

 long, 4-valved, finely downy. 



Upper Guinea. Corisco island, Mann ! 



2. B. abyssinica, Fresen. in Mm. Senck. ii. 280. t. 17. A tree with 

 strong woody terete branches, the young ones a little grey-downy. " etl ° '* 

 1-2 in. long, with an ovate-acuminate scarious stipule £-£ in. long. L eaV 

 imparipinnate with usually 4 pairs of slightly stalked oblong-lanceolate pal- 

 lets i-1 in. apart, which are 2-3 in. long by less than half as broad, tie 

 point acute or acuminate, the edge more or less distinctly serrated upwards, 

 the rachis not winged ; texture subcoriaceous, both sides quite glabrous, M» 

 upper rather glossy, the veins fine beneath and scarcely raised. Flowers in 

 dense axillary racemes, 4-8 in. long, 1 in. broad when expanded, on woott) 

 peduncles 2-3 in. long; pedicels 1 line long, stout, grey-silky. &** 

 small, lanceolate. Calyx campanulate, grey-silky, 4 lines deep, with 

 unequal oblong divisions reaching about halfway down. Petals 5, »g ' 

 late-spathulate, twice as long as the calyx, densely and finely silky, » 118 jg 

 reflexed. Stamens 5, in the male flowers nearly as long as the petals, 

 filaments silky downwards and monadelphous. Capsule subglobose, bou.. 



