310 XLVII. § CHSALPINIE® (OLIVER). | Schotia. 
ceous, dehiscent or subindehiscent. Seeds exalbuminous.”—Unarmed 
trees or shrubs. Leaves abruptly pinnate with coriaceous often small 
leaflets ; stipules small. Flowers red or purple, clustered in short 
often dense panicles, heads, or racemes. Bracts and bracteoles cadu- 
cous or subpersistent. 
Confined to South extratropical Africa, with the following exceptions :— 
Leaflets small. Flowers in dense heads. Calyx-tube campanu- 
late, shorter than the lobes . SI ts eo 
Leaflets 4-6 in. Flowers in short dense racemes. Calyx-tube 
narrow, funnel-shaped, as long as or longer than lobes . . 2. S. humboldtioides. 
1. S. capitata. 
1. S. eapitata, Bolle in Peters’ Mossamb, Bot. 18. Glabrous. Leaflets 
(in 4 or more? pairs) sessile, coriaceous, obovate-oblong, mucronate 
or apiculate, narrowed or cuneate at base (in our fragment 3-7 lines 
long). Flowers numerous in dense heads. Calyx-tube campanulate. 
Petals obovate distinctly clawed, half as long again as the calyx-lobes. 
Stamens much exserted, alternately shorter, connate at base. Ovary 
glabrous, stipitate, stipes adnate to tube of calyx ; ovules about 10. 
Mozamb. Distr. Inhambane, under the Tropic of Capricorn, Dr. Peters. 
We have probably the same plant from Delagoa Bay, Forbes. M. Baillon, in “ Adan- 
sonia” (vi. 197), distingnishes a plant from this locality, collected by Forbes, as var. For- 
besiana of S. speciosa (SN. tamarindifolia, Afz.). Dr. Peters’ plant [ have not examined. 
2. S. humboldtioides, Oliv. A glabrous tree of 25-30 ft.; 
extremities (in our specimens) tumid immediately under each node, 
narrowing gradually nearly to the middle of the internode. Leaves 
—lft. long, 2—4-jugate, glabrous; leaflets thinly coriaceous, the 
owest pair near the base of the leaf, obliquely elliptic-oblong, or vary- 
ing from lanceolate- to oblanceolate-oblong, narrowly acuminate, base 
very oblique rounded; 4-6 in. long, 13-24 broad; petiolule 0-1 line. 
Racemes solitary, or 2 or 3 from the axils, 1$-2in. long, densely 
many-flowered. Bracteoles broadly ovate, about } line long. Flowers 
patent on pedicels of about lline. Calyx 3—}in. long, puberulous or 
oe the tube but slightly exceeding the limb. Petals oval or ob- 
anceolate narrowed at base, slightly longer than calyx-lobes. Fila- 
ments glabrous, very shortly unequally coherent at the base. Ovary 
and gynophore pilose ; ovules 4-5. Legume... . 
Upper Guinea. River Camaroons, Mann! 
This plant so much resembles species of the Indian genus Humboldtia, that in the 
“Genera Plantarum” it is referred to as an African species of that genus. Excepting in 
the long narrow calyx-tube and fewer ovules, I do not find any technical character of 
importance to distinguish it from the other species of Schotia. The minute bractevles, 
which persist until flowering, do not enclose the young bud. 
At Kew there are fragments of perhaps a Schotia, in fruit only, from the Batoka 
highlands. -The legumes are 2-valved coriaceous oblong, 2-3 in. long, 3-1 in. broad, 
the valves tawny-tomeutose separating forcibly. Leaflets apparently in about 4 pairs, 
2 in. long, oblong, emarginate. 
