Berlinia. | XLVII. § CESALPINIEE (OLIVER). 298 
slender, elongate or occasionally not longer than the ovary ; stigma ter- 
minal, capitellate or peltate. Ovules usually 4-8. Legume 2-valved, 
flat, coriaceous. Seeds... .—Unarmed trees. Leaves abruptly pin- 
nate. Stipules various, in one species large, subpersistent, in others 
small or inconspicuous and caducous. Flowers usually handsome, white 
or whitish, in terminal, solitary or panicled often corymbose racemes. 
Bracts deciduous or caducous. Bracteoles geminate, large, obovate or 
oblanceolate, valvate, enclosing the bud, spreading or deciduous at 
flowering. 
Confined to Tropical Africa. See remark under Macrolobium. 
Stamens 10, all perfect. 
Posterior petal conspicuously larger than the rest. 
Involucral bracteoles 1-19 in. long. Pedicels $-3in. . . . 1 B. acuminata, 
Involucral bracteoles 3 in. or less. Pedicels $-Sin. . . . . 2. B. auriculata. 
Petals equal or but slightly unequal in length. 
Bracts 2-2} in. Petals 2-3 in,, all distinctly clawed . . . 3. B. bracteosa. 
Bracts tle din. or less. Petals about 4 in., shortly clawed or 
sessile. 
Calyx-tube 1 line or less. Segments oblanceolate, 2—3 lines. 
Stamens shortly diadelphous . . . . .. .. ~~. . 4. B. paniculata. 
Calyx-tube }-} in. Segments linear or oval, §-4 in. Sta- 
mens free wee eel Sie cat Nene 9c eee CEN ORB ERs 
Perfect stamens 5, with alternate staminodia, free from the base. 
Stipules lanceolate acute, 14-2 in.long . . . . . . . . . 6. B. stipulacea. 
1. B. acuminata, Solander ; Hook. f. et Benth. Fl. Nigrit. 326. A 
tree attaining 20-40 or 60 ft., extremities terete, glabrous or minutely 
hoary or rusty-puberulous. Leaflets 3—6-jugate, thinly coriaceous, 
oval- or elliptic-oblong varying to obovate-elliptical, shortly obtusely 
acuminate or obtuse or subacute, usually more or less rounded at base, 
glabrous, midrib and lateral nerves prominent, reticulation subpromi- 
nent beneath ; 8—9 in. long, 1 fo nearly 5 in. broad; petiolules 1—# lines. 
Stipules nut apparent. Flowers in terminal simple or usually corym- 
bosely panicled hoary racemes; bracts concave, caducous, ovate or 
rotundate, 1-3 lines. Pedicels from ? in. to 24 in., in the larger- 
flowered forms often compressed or 2-edged. Involucral bracteoles 
thickly or thinly coriaceous, obovate or obovate-oblong, tawny puberu- 
lous or tomentose at least externally, from 1-1? in. long. Calyx seri- 
ceous or glabrate, tube }—} in. long, segments linear or linear-lanceolate, 
as long or half as long again as the tube. Posterior petal ample, 14— 
3 in. long, often pilose on the claw and median portion behind, lamina 
4-rotundate, entire or bilobate, flabellately veined, margin usually cris- 
tate, 1-3 in. broad, abruptly or cuneately narrowed into the winged 
channelled claw, which is rhomboid-dilated or more or less bi-auriculate 
at base. Lateral and anterior petals shorter than or but slightly ex- 
ceeding the calyx, linear or linear-lanceolate, variously dilated or auricled 
below. Stamens all perfect, elongate, posterior one free, rest very 
shortly connate at base. Ovary shortly stipitate, tomentose or pilose ; 
style elongate (or short, perhaps a sexual ditterence), glabrous except 
below; stigma capitellate. Ovules 6-8. Legume 9 in. to 1 ft. long, 
