Baikiaa,| XLVII. § CHSALPINIEE (OLIVER). 309 
recurved, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary stipitate, densely villous, 
“style elongate, slender, glabrous ;”’ stigma small; “ovules about 8.” 
Legume unknown.—Unarmed trees, excepting the inflorescence wholly 
glabrous. Leaves abruptly pinnate, leaflets 2—-1-jugate, coriaceous. 
Flowers very large in very short few-flowered, terminal or subterminal 
stout racemes ; bracts and bracteoles very small, caducous. 
Known only from W. Tropical Africa. 
Leaflets 2-1 pair, usually 2-4 in. broad. Racemes 1 in., 3-7 flowered. 
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Leaflets 3-4 pairs, usually 14 in. broad or less, Racemes 14 in., 10-15 
powered: Mower h-4 ik lene 6 
1. B. insignis. 
2. B. minor. 
1. B. insignis, Benth. in Linn. Trans. xxv. 314, t. 41. A tree of 
30-40 ft.; extremities moderately stout, terete. Leaflets usually in 
2 or 1 pair, glabrous, variable in size, very coriaceous, the lateral leaflets 
often alternate, obliquely elliptical or oblong-elliptical, probably ob- 
tusely pointed or acuminate (our numerous leaflets are nearly all 
eroded towards the apex), midrib prominent beneath, lateral nervures 
obscure, and venation minutely areolate inconspicuous ; 3-4 to 10 in. 
long, 14—-4in. broad; petiolules stout, fin. Axis of raceme 1 in. or 
less, together with the short thick pedicels and oblong or clavate 
flower-buds clothed with a short, thick, velvety, darkly ferruginous 
tomentum. Calyx-tube turbinate, stout, $-$in. long; segments at 
length about 38in., silky-villous within. Petals 6in. more or less, 
externally thinly pilose as is their midrib within, lateral nervures directed 
forwards. Stamens alternately shorter, the longer nearly equalling the 
petals; the short sheath villous externally. Stipes of ovary about 
lin. long. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann! 
2. B. minor, Oliv. Agreeing with B. insignis in general characters, 
differing in the oval-oblong or ovate-lanceolate leatlets in 3—4 pairs, 
3-5 in. long, 14 in. broad, obtusely subacuminate ; racemes with more 
numerous distichous smaller flowers; filaments glabrous. Our speci- 
men is fragmentary. 
Lower Guinea. Congo, Smith! Consul Burton! 
A specimen at the British Museum bears an immature pod, oblanceolate-falcate, about 
44 in. long, 14 in. broad towards the apex, tipped with the terminal persistent style, 
and narrowed to the gynophore, which is about 1} in. long. The specimen is labelled 
“ Westia grandiflora, Vahl?” 
24. SCHOTIA, Jacq.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 581. 
Calyx-tube turbinate, campanulate, or narrowly infundibuliform ; seg- 
ments 4, much imbricate. Petals 5 slightly unequal clawed or sub- 
sessile, longer or shorter than the calyx, imbricate. Stamens 10, free 
or shortly coherent below; anthers uniform dehiscing longitudinally. 
Ovary stipitate with elongate style and small terminal stigma ; ovules 
4-8-10 or more. “ Legume oblong, often falcate, compressed, coria- 
