Cesalpinia. | XLVII. § CHSALPINIEH (OLIVER). 265 
sparsely or densely with short unequal slightly recurved prickles, Leaves 
ample, stipulate, 1-1} ft. long, with about 4~7 pairs widely spreading 
~10-jugate pinne; leaflets ovate-elliptical or elliptic-oblong, apex 
rounded hortl i i 
nded or shortly and broadly pointed with a short fine mucro, base 
rounded, subsessile, usually at length glabrate or the midrib and mar- 
gin puberulous, the larger 1-12 in. long, Racemes many-flowered, 
simple or branched below; bracts linear-subulate with a fine recurved 
pn projecting beyond the unopened flowers. Calyx rusty-pubescent, 
obes recurved. Petals yellow, spreading, the upper sometimes spotted 
with red. Legumes 2-valved, 2-3 in. long, 1}—13 in. broad, coriaceous, 
covered with short spreading straight prickles; 1—-2-seeded. Seeds sub- 
globose or ovoid, bluish-grey or lead-coloured.— Guilandina Bonducelia, 
L.; DC. Prod. ii. 480. (G. Bondue, Ait., 8. minus.) 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Cape Palmas, 7. Vogel! Fernando Po, Barter! 
Mozamb. Distr. Luabo river, Dr. Kirk! 
No doubt abundant elsewhere along the African coast, as it is generally on the shores 
of the Tropics of both hemispheres. C. Bonduc, a nearly allied and widely-spread, 
though less common Tropical species, of which I have not seen African specimens, 
differs in the absence of stipules, erect bracts, and less degree of pubescence. I pre- 
sume that the plant recorded under this name from various localities in Tropical Africa 
is C. Bonducella. 
4. HOFFMANSEGGIA, Cav.; Benth. et Hook. f. 
Gen. Plant. i. 567. 
Sepals 5, coherent at base in a very short tube, the posterior broader, 
subvalvate in wstivation (in the African species). Petals 5, lanceolate, 
rotundate or obovate, posterior smaller. Stamens 10, declinate ; anthers 
uniform, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary subsessile, 3-0 -ovulate ; 
style rather short or filiform, curved at the tip with an oblique rather 
dilated stigma. Legume 2-valved, thinly coriaceous, shortly setulose 
in the African species, few-seeded. Seeds compressed, exalbuminous, 
with a short straight radicle—Herbs or low shrubs, frequently glan- 
dular. Leaves bipinnate or lateral pinne wanting ; leaflets small, with 
or without stipelle. Flowers yellow or red, racemose, racemes leaf- 
opposed or terminal, bracts deciduous. 
A small genus, chiefly American, with two South African representatives, of which 
but one occurs between the Tropics. 
1. H. Burchellii, Benth. in Hb. Kew. An ascending or diffuse setu- 
lose herb of 4-1 ft. from a woody stock ; root-fibres 4—6 in,, conside- 
rably thickened or fusiform. Leaves 1—3-jugate with a terminal pinna, 
or lateral pinne wanting; when present, usually 4~8-foliolate, ter- 
minal pinna (or simply pinnate leaf) 10—20-foliolate, leaflets opposite 
with minute setaceous stipelle, oblong or ovate-oblong obliquely 
rounded at the base, commonly dotted more or less with conspicuous 
black glands. Racemes several-tlowered, erect, nearly equalling or 
exceeding the leaves, sparsely setulose. Pedicels 1}—2 lines long, re- 
curved above in fruit. Flowers (according to Dr. Burchell) red, the 
