Mucrolobium.| XILVII. § CASALPINIEZ (OLIVER). 299 
3. M. demonstrans. Climbing shrub; branches stout, rugose, 
striate. Leaves 3-jugate, leaflets coriaceous oblong, shortly acuminate, 
unequally rounded and subauricled on the outer edge at base, smooth 
and shining above, opaque and ferruginous beneath with prominent 
midrib and venation ; reaching 8 in. in length by 3—34 in. in breadth. 
Racemes axillary, branched and paniculate, 6 in. long. Bracts sub- 
tending the branches of inflorescence apparently obsolete or caducous, 
their stipules lanceolate glabrous }~-? in. long. Involucral bracteoles 
ovate-lanceolate, thickly coriaceous, puberulous. Calyx-lobes 5, sub- 
equal, membranous, oblong’, acute, glabrous, slightly exceeding the 4 
smaller | Se Posterior petal ample, limb 2-lobate, claw long and 
stout. Fertile stamens 3, exserted, rest gland-like or 0. Ovary 
shortly stipitate, rusty-villous, 4-ovulate; style slender, glabrous; 
stigma capitellate. Legume... . Vouapa (Pentisomeris) demonstrans, 
Baill. in Adans. vi. 180, t. 8, figs. 1-5. 
Upper Guinea. Gaboon, Duparquet and Griffon du Bellay. 
Description from Baillon. I have not seen specimens. 
4. M. stipulaceum, Benth. in Linn. Trans. xxv. 308. Small tree; 
ultimate branches rather stout, appressed-pubescent or tomentose at 
first, closely invested by the sheathing stipules which considerably ex- 
ceed the internodes. Leaves ample, 3—6-jugate, rachis terete, finely 
tomentose or glabrate; leaflets submembranous or thinly coriaceous, 
oval-oblong,, finely rather abruptly acuminate, cuneate or rounded at 
the base, glabrous above, more or less silvery with closely appressed 
minute silky hairs beneath, midrib prominent ; lower leaflets 25—4 in., 
upper 6-12 in. long with the acumen of $—? in., 14-3 in. broad. 
Stipules subcoriaceous, ample, acuminate, connate by their inner mar- 
gins, loosely sheathing the stem, 2-24 in. long, longitudinally nerved. 
Flowers in smal] dense many-flowered fascicled rusty-puberulous com- 
pound racemes or mapa 2-3 in. long and broad, from the wood of 
a previous year. Bracts present at flowering, cymbiform, 2 lines long. 
Pedicels slender, $—$ in. Involucral bracteoles obovate obtuse, to- 
mentose externally, 4—} in. long, nearly or quite equalling the flower. 
Calyx deeply 4-fid, lobes ovate, scarcely acute, posterior lobe bidentate 
or emarginate, tube turbinate, 1 line. Posterior petal with a broad 
2-lobed lamina, equalling the claw the margins of which are incurved ; 
4 smaller petals entire. Perfect stamens 3, filaments elongate ; anthers 
elliptic-oblong, versatile, remainder very minute or suppressed. Ovary 
subsessile, pilose ; style elongate, recurved, pilose below ; stigma capi- 
tate. Ovules 7-8. Legume not seen. 
Upper Guinea. River Gaboon, Mann! 
17. DANIELLIA, Bennett; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 580. 
Calyx-tube narrowly funnel-shaped, limb 4-partite, tae nearly 
equal, broadly imbricate, deciduous. Petals 5, the lateral and anterior 
very minute and evanescent, the posterior only usually apparent at 
