Bandeirea. | XLVII. § CHSALPINIEE (OLIVER). 285 
2. B. simplicifolia, Benth. in Linn. Trans. xxv. 306. Branching 
shrub, with glabrous shining branches. Leaves subcoriaceous, shortly 
petiolate, ovate-oblong, obtuse or rounded above, 3-nerved, glabrous, 
shining, 2 in. long. Racemes dense, erect, terminal or extra-axillary, 
on long peduncles, with the calyx hoary-tomentose. Calyx-tube gra- 
dually dilating, ventricose and 5-fid above. Petals ovate-oblong, obtuse, 
shortly clawed, spreading, greenish. Filaments pubescent below. 
Gynophore equalling the petals, filiform.—sSchotia simplicifolia, Vahl ; 
DC. Prod. ii. 508; Schum. et Thonn. Pl. Guin. 212. 
Upper Guinea. Gold Coast, Thonning. 
The above description is taken from Schumacher and Thonning. I have 
not seen a specimen. Dr. Baillon figures in Adansonia, vi. 2, fig. 1, a specimen of 
Vahl’s type from the Jussieuan Herbarium. The racemes are represented as lateral, 
extra-axillary, ascending and shorter than or scarcely equalling the leaves, as well as 
terminal. The trinervation of the leaves is conspicuous, the lateral nervures consider- 
ably within the margin and evanescing above the middle. In the herbarium of the 
British Museum is a Bandeirea from Cape Coast (Brass), in which the leaves are less 
distinctly 3-nerved than in B. speciosa, and the racemes shorter, though exceeding the 
leaves. I think this probably £. simplicifolia; indeed I much doubt it B. speciosa be 
specifically distinct. 
3. B. tenuiflora, Benth. in Linn. Trans. xxv. 307. Climbing shrub, 
attaining 15-20 ft., glabrous throughout. Leaves thinly coriaceous, 
subsessile, elliptic-oblong, shortly and rather obtusely acuminate or 
cuspidate or obtuse, shining above, venation prominent beneath, the 
lowest pair of lateral nervures intramarginal, and inconspicuous above ; 
2-5 or occasionally 6 in. long, 1-24 in. broad ; petiole }-2 lines. Ra- 
cemes many-flowered, terminal, pedunculate. Bracts ovate-lanceolate, 
acute, deciduous, 1 line long. Pedicels {-} in. Calyx-tube ?-1 in. 
long, glabrous, suleate below when dry, campanulate and _ shortly 
deltoid-toothed above. Petals oval or oblanceolate, narrowed below, 
Sin. long. Filaments filiform, glabrous. Ovary shortly and broadly 
oblong, on a very slender stipes, projecting 4 in.; ovules 4. Legume 
(immature?) in the specimen, $—3 in. long, rounded above, bearing 
laterally the slender subulate style; 1—14 lines long, much inflated, 
thinly crustaceous, black, smooth and glabrous.—Grijfonia physocarpa, 
Baill. in Adansonia, vi. 188 t. 2, figs. 2-5. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann! | 
14. BAUHINIA; Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 575. 
Calyx-tube turbinate, campanulate to elongate-cylindrical, limb spath- 
aceous or 5-toothed, -lobed, or -partite. Petals 5, subequal, or posterior 
smaller, sometimes with a bifid basal callus, imbricate in estivation. 
Stamens 10 or fewer, 2, 4—5 or all antheriferous; filaments of perfect 
stamens free or nearly so, unequal; anthers ovate-oblong or linear, 
dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary stipitate or subsessile, 2—<o -ovulate ; 
style slender, filiform; or very short; stigma terminal, dilated and 
obliquely peltate or inconspicuous. Legume oblong or linear, coriaceous 
or woody indehiscent or 2-valved, 2~x -seeded. Seeds compressed, 
