Afzelia. | XLVI1. § CHSALPINIEH (OLIVER). 308 
long, }-24 in. broad, on petiolules of 1-5 lines. Flowers larger than 
in A. africana, in terminal simple solitary hoary or pubescent racemes 
not exceeding 3—4 in. in length in our specimens, the racemes occasion- 
ally forked at the base. Bracts concave, caducous, 1-3 lines long; 
bracteoles caducous, } in. or less. Calyx-tube narrowly funnel-shaped 
or subcylindrical, about equalling the inner and longer obovate concave 
segments of the limb. Vexillum }-1} in. long, 2-3 times as long 
as the calyx, clawed, the claw channelled, either very narrow at the 
base dilating upwards into the bilobate blood-red lamina or broader 
and cuneately expanded above, sometimes thinly pilose dorsally. 
Lateral and anterior petals very minute squamiform. Fertile stamens 
7 (-9) and staminodia as in A. bracteata ; filaments very shortly connate 
at the base, glabrous, or thinly pilose. Ovary on agynophore of about 
its own length, thinly pubescent on the margin or glabrous, narrowed 
into the elongate slender style. Ovules uniseriate, about 10. Legume 
oblong, smooth, punctate, glabrous, shortly and obliquely apiculate, 
rounded and gibbous at the base, 5-7 in. long, 13-24 in. broad.—A. 
Petersiana, Klotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 19. 
Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto and Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 
South Central. Highlands of Batoka country, Dr. Kirk! 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, Usekhe, Speke and Grant! (A form with more 
coriaceous leaflets and broadly clawed petal); common on the Zambesi, Dr. Kirk! 
West shore of Nyassa, Dr. Kirk! 
Also south of the Tropic at Delagoa Bay, Forbes! 
Specimens of an Afzelia, probably specifically distinct, in fruit only, with unfolding 
leaves and young buds are in the Kew Herbarium, collected by Dr. Kirk on the Rovuma. 
Tt differs from the Zambesi plant in its smaller growth and larger flowers, according to 
Dr. Kirk. The leaflets also appear longer and more ovate. The legumes are very 
thick and woody, about 6 in. long, 24 in. broad, 8-9-seeded, broadly oblong or elliptic- 
oblong, rounded and gibbous at the base, projecting upon the oblique insertion of the 
stout peduncle. Afzelia attenuata, Klotzsch, also described in the work cited from 
very fragmentary specimens, cannot be certainly identified. An authentic specimen, 
however, kindly lent by the Berlin Museum for comparison at Kew, agreed, so far as it 
went, with the above.* 
With our specimens of Afzelia are sorted away specimens, in leaf and fruit only, of a 
leguminous tree or shrub from the Batoka country (Dr. Kirk), which may or may not 
belong to the genus. The young extremities and rachis of the leaves more or less 
tawny-pubescent, or pilose-tomentose ; leaflets in 3-4 pairs, very coriaceous, elliptic- 
oblong, obtuse, or emarginate, finely reticulate, at length glabrescent, sparingly pubescent 
on midrib beneath, 2-24 in. long. Legume flat, obliquely and narrowly obovate-cuneate 
or oblanceolate-cuneate, 3-5 in. long, 14-2 in. broad near the extremity, narrowed with 
but slightly curved sides to the obtuse base ; valves clothed with a deciduous, patchy, 
ferruginous tomentum. Seeds few, compressed, elliptical, smooth, dark-brown, 1 in. 
long, exarillate, exalbuminous. In the Herbarium of the British Museum are insuf- 
ficient specimens of perhaps 2 species from Sierra Leone, probably belonging to this 
genus. 
19. CRYPTOSEPALUM, Benth.; Benth. et Hook. f. 
Gen. Plant. i. 584. 
Flowers small, buds enclosed between a pair of valvate bracteoles. 
Calyx-tube minute, turbinate or urceolate, limb of 3-4-5 minute often 
* Afzelia? Pancovia, DC. Prod. ii. 507 (Pancovia bijuga, Willd.), M. Baillon in- 
forms me is a Sapindacea. 
