452 xlvi. connarace^; (baker). [Byrsocarpus 



Leaflets elliptical, bluntly rounded at the apex. 



Leaflets in 3-7 pairs. Petals ligulate, not imbricated 1. B. coccineus. 



Leaflets in 10-12 pairs. Petals obovate, imbricated 2. B. orientals. 



Leaflets ovate, acute. 



Leaflets $-§■ in. long, 4 in. broad 3. B. ovatifolius. 



Leaflets li— 1J in. long, £-1 in. broad 4. B.maximus. 



1. B. coccineus, Schum. et Thonn. PL Guin. 226. A copiously 

 branched shrub 4 or 5 ft. high, with glabrous, terete, dark-coloured, woody 

 branches mottled with copious, pale, raised spots. Petiole \ in. Ions, firm, 

 slightly downy when young, the rachis 2-3 in. long ; leaflets in 3-5 pairs, 

 obovate, the lateral ones alternate, on very short petiolules, about 1 in. long 

 by | in. broad, the point rounded and emarginnte, the lower side cut away 

 slightly towards the base ; texture subcoriaceous. both sides glabrous when 

 mature, the lower a little downy when young. Flowers in copious, lax, 3-5- 

 flowered cymes, the peduncle very short, the pedicels very slender, glabrous, 

 often f-i in. long, with small lanceolate bracts at the base. Calyx at first 

 campanulate, 1 line deep, the lobes reaching two-thirds down, ciliated, orbicu- 

 lar, much imbricated, finally quite patent, -i- in. deep and the lobes then scarcely, 

 if at all, imbricated. Corolla white, 3-4 lines long, the petals equal, under 

 1 line broad. Stamens all equal and equalling the corolla or alternately 

 longer and shorter and the longer ones falling short of the corolla, with inter- 

 mediate gradations. Carpels densely grey-silky. Pod about j in. long, ob- 

 long-cylindrical, very slightly stalked, glabrous, brown, coriaceous, a little 

 curved, finely grooved longitudinally.— Planch, in Linnrea, xxiii. 412 ; Walp. 

 Ann. ii. 294. B. puniceus, Schum! et Thonn. and Planch. 1. c. Rourea coc- 

 cinea, Hook. f. PI. Nigrit. 290. 



Var. 0. (B. parvifolius, Planch. 1. c.), leaflets in 5-7 pairs, oblong, the upper ones about 

 f in. long by half as broad. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, HeudeJot ! Sierra Leone, Afzehus I Barter! Guinea 

 proper, Thonning, Brass! T. Vogel ! Barter! Mann! 



After examination of a large number of specimens, it is quite clear to us that no de- 

 pendence can be placed on the length of the filaments as a specific character, and that there 

 is no definite limit between the 3 species published from the W. coast. 



2. B. orientalis, Baker. A small tree with very rugose glabrous branches 

 mottled like those of the preceding. Petiole f-1 in. long, firm, glabrous, the 

 rachis 6-8 in. long; leaflets in 10 or 12 nearly opposite pairs and a terminal 

 one, the lateral ones on stalks under 1 line lono-, oblong, 1-1 } in. long n. v 

 about half as broad, the base equally rounded, t'he point blunt and slightly 

 mucronate ; texture subcoriaceous, both sides glabrous. Plowers as m w 

 preceding. Petals (not seen in our specimens), according to Baillon, obovate 

 and much imbricated. Pruit-calyx deeper than in the preceding (2 " nes /' 

 the lobes subdeltoid. Pod £- £ in. long, slightly Curved.— Bowtea oriental 

 Baillon, Adans. vii. 230. ' 



Mosamb. Distr. Zambesi-land, Shupanga ; Rovuma, Dr. Kirk ! . 



Also a plant of Madagascar, from whence M. Baillon (1. c.) has described 2 additiona 

 species. 



3. B. ovatifolius, Baker. Branches woody, terete, glabrous, not 

 mottled. Petioles slender, glabrous, £-£ in. long, the rachis l£-2 in. lon D > 



