298 XLVII. § CHSALPINIEE (OLIVER). [ Macrolobium, 
compound or simple, axillary, rusty-puberulous racemes 1-2 in. in 
length, occasionally growing out to 4-6 in., pedicels 2-4 lines. Bracts 
very early caducous. Involucral bracteoles thinly coriaceous, 24-3 lines 
long. Calyx deeply 4-fid, tube very short, turbinate, 1 line or less, 
posterior lobe shortly bifid. Posterior petal obcordate-cuneate or 
cordate also at the base with a distinct claw, twice as long as the 
calyx; four smaller petals oval to obovate, often much shorter than 
calyx-lobes. Perfect stamens 3, exserted, remainder unequal, shorter 
than calyx, with imperfect or effete anthers. Ovary subsessile pubes- 
cent; style slender, glabrous. Ovules 4-5-8. Legume flat, thickly 
coriaceous, oblong or broadly oblong obtuse at each end, ventral suture 
thickened with a double laterally prominent margin, valves shortly 
tawny- or rusty-tomentose, obliquely rugose ; 7 in. to 1 ft. long, 13-83 
in. broad.—Anthonotha macrophylla, P. de Beauv. Fl. Owar. i. 71. t. 425 
Adansonia, vi. t. 3. fig. 6 ( Vouapa). 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia (Vouapa macrophylla, 8. Heudelotiana, Baill. in 
Adans. vi. 179), Heudelot! Fernando Po, Barter! Mann! Confluence of Quorra and 
Tschadda, Barter! Old Calabar, W. C. Thomson! and probably the same, Sierra 
Leone, Smeathmann! Don! 
Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 
-M. Baillon, ].c., describes besides, as collected by Heudelot in Senegambia, Antho- 
nota crassifolia, sp. nov., differing from J/. Palisoti in its more coriaceous leaves and 
very contracted fascicled racemes from the old wood. Probably not distinct. The 
lateral slender branchlets bearing the short fascicled racemes on their lower nodes, and 
apparently terminating in a single leaf, at first sight strongly suggest their being leaves 
floriferous in their ower portions. This is well shown in Dr. Welwitsch’s magnificent 
series of this species. (Petal on expansion greenish-white, at length cinnamon-yellow. 
Dr W;.) 
2. M. Heudelotii, Planch. ; Benth. in Linn. Trans. xxv. 308. Tall 
or climbing shrub; branches slender, striate, puberulous. Leaves 3—2- 
jugate, rachis 24-4 in. long; leaflets firmly membranous, ovate-ellipti- 
cal or elliptical, shortly and rather obtusely acuminate, mostly 
rounded at base, early glabrous, midrib and lateral nerves prominent, 
reticulation subprominent beneath, 24-34 in. long, 14-1} in. broad ; 
petiolules stout, 1-2 lines. Flowers fascicled at intervals along, or on 
short lateral branches of, slender elongate leafless puberulous racemes ; 
pedicels 2-8 lines. Bracts minute caducous. Involucral bracteoles 
4 in. long, elliptical, obtuse, concave. Calyx-tube very short, lobes of 
limb thin, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, the posterior broader and minutely 
bifid. Posterior and 2 lateral petals subequal, slightly exceeding calyx, 
bilobate, subsessile or very shortly clawed; 2 anterior petals minute, 
squamiform. Fertile stamens 3, elongate, glabrous; rest minute, 
abortive. Ovary tomentose, subsessile; style short, incurved, glabrous. 
Ovules 3-4. Legume 2—4 in. long, oblique, broad, thickly coriaceous, 
tomentose or villous, obliquely rugose, ventral suture thickened with a 
double raised line-—Vowapa (Triplisomeris) eaplicans, Baill. in Adans. 
vi. 181. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Senegambia, Heudelot! Rio Nunez, 
Whitfield ! 
