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Ormosia., | XLVII. § PAPILIONACER (BAKER), 255 
A small genus, stretching round the world in the Tropics. 
Standard shorter than the wings andkeel . . . . . . . .. LO. laxiflora. 
Standard as long as the wings and keel. . . . . . ..- . . 2. Oz angolensis. 
1. O. laxiflora, Benth. in Herb. Kew. A tree 40 ft. high, with very 
hard wood, the branches finely grey-downy. Petioles 1-1 in. long; 
leaves 5-6 in. long, with 9-I1 oblong glabrous coriaceous pointed 
leaflets 2-34 in. long, on petiolules 2-24 lines long. Flowers in copious 
nearly sessile thyrsoid panicles with racemose branches. Pedicels 4—5 
lines long, finely grey-downy. Calyx coriaceous, 4 lines deep, finely 
grey-velvety, finally breaking away from the disk, the teeth reaching 
three-quarters of the way down, the three lower ones lanceolate. 
Corolla greenish, 6—7 lines deep, the standard orbicular, 2 in. broad, 
recurved, considerably shorter than the other petals, which are all 2-2 
lines broad. Ovary linear, silky, stalked. Pod unknown. 
Upper Guinea. Nupe, Barter! Jeba, Dalton! Cameroons river, Mann! 
2. O. angolensis, Baker. A shrub reaching 8 ft. high, with densely 
brown-velvety branches. Petiole 15-18 lines; rachis 4—5 in., both 
densely brown-velvety; leaflets 7-9, coriaceous, glabrescent above, 
thinly brown-velvety below, oblong, blunt, emarginate at the point; 
the end one the largest, 14-2 in. long; side ones alternate. Flowers 
in ample terminal thyrsoid panicles, with densely brown-velvety 
branches. Pedicels }—2 in., with minute linear deciduous bracteoles. 
Calyx campanulate, coriaceous, densely velvety, 2 in. long ; teeth ob- 
long-lanceolate, reaching halfway down. Corolla 4in., reddish ; petals 
subequal, much veined; standard round, 3 in. broad. Ovary linear, 
densely silky, pauciovulate. Pod not known. 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch! 
88. CADIA, Forsk.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 560. 
Calyx campanulate with broad subequal teeth. Petals uniform, free, 
erecto-patent, obovate or suborbicular, shortly unguiculate, the upper 
one outermost in wstivation. Stamens free, subequal, rather shorter 
than the petals; anthers uniform, linear, versatile. Ovary subsessile 
or stipitate, multiovulate; style incurved, subulate ; stigma small, ter- 
minal. Pod linear, acuminate, flattened, coriaceous, two-valved, con- 
tinuous within.—Erect shrubs. 
Only two species known, restricted to Arabia and Tropical Africa. 
1. C. varia, L’ Herit.; DC. Prod. ii. 486. A small shrub, the ulti- 
mate branches slender, woody, finely downy. Leaves subsessile ; rachis 
3—4 in. long, leaflets in 15-25 pairs and a terminal one, alternate, ses- 
sile, ligulate, 6—8 lines long, a line broad, coriaceous, the upper surface 
green, the lower glaucous, edges revolute. Flowers solitary or in 2-4- 
flowered cymes on downy peduncles an inch or less long. edicels 1 in. 
long, gander, pendulous. Calyx } in. deep, membranous, glabrous or 
