Andira. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACER (BAKER). 247 
Lam. Ene. i. 171, t. 604, fig. 1. 4. grandiflora, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 
254. A, acuminata, Benth. in Ann. Mus. Vind. ii. 109. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot! 
2. A.? gabonica, Buillon in Adans. vi. 219. (adnot.). Young 
branches densely villous. Rachis of the leaves 10 in. long, slender ; 
leaflets 11, alternate or subopposite, short-stalked, ovate, 3 in. long, 
1} in. broad, acute, the base rounded, subcoriaceous, upper surface 
shining, lower opaque. Flowers in panicles with short few-flowered 
densely villous branches. Calyx purplish, villous, } in. deep. Corolla 
white, three times as long as the calyx, the standard obtuse, finally 
reflexed, rather shorter than the other petals, the upper stamen quite 
free. Ovary short-stalked, villous, 2-3-ovulate ; style subulate, arcuate. 
Pod not known. 
Upper Guinea. Banks of the Gaboon, Duparquet (fide Baiilon). 
81. DALHOUSIEA, Wall.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 552. 
Calyx campanulate, teeth very short. Standard orbicular, subsessile ; 
wings obliquely oblong, free; keel broader than the wings, erect, 
oblique, its petals subcoherent along the back, with very short claws. 
Stamens free; anthers linear-oblong, shorter than their filaments. 
Ovary subsessile, pauciovulate; style slightly incurved; stigma small 
terminal. Pod obliquely oblong, narrowed at both ends, compressed, 
coriaceous, 2-valved, continuous within. Seeds 2—3.—A shrub with 
large ovate persistent bracts and bracteoles, the latter quite including 
the Hower. 
A single species, common to Angola and the Himalayas, but not known in the inter- 
mediate country. 
1. D. bracteata, Wall. Cat. Herb. Ind. Or. No. 5339. A shrub with 
terete glabrescent almost sarmentose branches. Petiole 1-8 in. ; ry 
simple, subcoriaceous, glabrous oblong acute, of the flower-shoot 4 
on the barren reaching 6-12 in. long. Flowers in ample termina 
panicles with few-flowered subcorymbose branches reaching ie 
among the leaves. Bracts round, 3-4 lines, ciliated. Calyx 1}- ove 
quite enveloped in a pair of similar bracteoles. a sec eather 
much longer. Pod rigidly coriaceous, glabrous, 24-3 in. long, 12- 
lines broad.— Wight Ie. t. 265. 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
82. BAPHTA, Afzel.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 553. 
Calyx ovoid or globose, shortly toothed, slitting as the flower ex- 
pends either into oe reflexed oie or down to the base along one a 
Petals subsessile ; standard orbicular; wings obliquely oblong 9 = 
ovate; keel slightly incurved, obtuse, the petals slightly ‘a veh b. 
Stamens free, the anthers shorter than the filaments. Ovary subsessile, 
