284 XLVII. § CHSALPINIEH (OLIVER). [ Dialium. 
1, 2 or (usually) 0. Fruit, judging from immature specimens, similar 
to that of D. guineense. 
Lower Guinea. Angola province, Pungo Andongo, Dr. Welwitsch! 
This may prove a race of the foregoing. 
13. BANDEIRAA, Welw.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 577. 
Calyx-tube elongate, dilated or campanulate above, 5-toothed or 
5-lobed. Petals 5, subequal, imbricate, oval or oblanceolate. Stamens 
10, all antheriferous, free, alternately shorter; filaments pubescent 
below; anthers uniform, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary compressed 
on a long slender stipes; style short, with a small terminal stigma; 
ovules about 4. Legume coriaceous, turgid, 2-valved. Seeds exalbu- 
minous, flattened transversely to the axis of the legume; cotyledons 
round, flat, with the small short radicle slightly projecting from their 
emarginate base; testa thinly coriaceous.—Climbing shrubs. Leaves 
simple, 1-foliolate, entire, penniveined, or with the two lateral basal 
nervures prolonged, subtrinerved. Flowers in terminal or extra-axillary 
simple erect racemes, occasionally panicled at the ends of the branches. 
Confined to West Tropical Africa. It is not improbable that the following may prove 
forms of one species :— : 
Leaves triplinerved. Racemes hoary or puberulous. 
Racemes terminal, overtopping the leaves, panicled. Legume 
rather longer than gynophore . - ..:...- 
Racemes terminal and lateral, extra-axillary, shorter than or not 
much exceeding the leaves . Seep) en aerate ger age 
Leaves scarcely 3-nerved. Racemes wholly glabrous. Legume 
rather shorter than gynophore Ae Sena e 
1. B. speciosa. 
2. B. simplicifolia. 
3. B. tenuiflora. 
1. B. speciosa, Welw. ; Benth. in Linn, Trans. xxv. 306, t. 40. A 
much-branched climbing shrub or occasionally tree-like ; extremities at 
first hoary, at length glabrous. Leaves oval or elliptic-oblong, obtuse 
and shortly and obtusely apiculate, thinly coriaceous, glabrous, ret 
above, one or two pairs of the lower lateral veins prolonged about half 
the length of the leaf, much fainter than the midrib, 2—4 in. long; 
petiole short, 2-3 lines. Racemes short, densely many-flowered, hoary- 
puberulous, collected in terminal leafy panicles. Flowers drooping, 
crimson-purple, on pedicels of 2-8 lines. Bracts and bracteoles minute, 
caducous. Calyx-tube ?in. long, obliquely obtuse at base, dilated above 
into the broadly campanulate limb. Lotala oblanceolate clawed, lamina 
4—4 in. long. Stamens equalling the petals. Ovary obliquely pointed, 
stipitate, at length exserted ; ovules 3 or 4, confined to the lower part 0 
the suture. Legume turgid, black and shining, 2-24 in. long, {-1 m. 
diameter, on a stipes affixed to one side of the obtuse base $ in. long, 
styline apiculus lateral; valves on dehiscence somewhat involute, thin 
but hard and woody, Seeds black, flat, roundish, disposed in a plane 
at right angles to the axis of the lezume, 4—2 in. in diameter. 
Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto, Angolo, Dr. Welwitsch ! Congo, Smith! 
