312 XLVII. § CHSALPINIEH (OLIVER). [ Trachylobium. 
tinctly clawed, while in 7. Hornemannianum they are rudimentary. This character 
may prove inadequate, in which case the two plants must be reunited under the spe- 
cific name verrucosum, first applied to the Madagascar plant. Hayne, in his original 
publication of Trachylobium, in Flora (1827, ii. 473), describes the petals as 5, sub- 
equal; but in his “Arzueigewiichse” (xi. t. 18 and 19) gives 7. Gertnerianum and 
. Hornemannianum as tripetalous, 
26. CRUDIA, Schreb.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 584. 
Calyx-tube short, turbinate, segments 4 (—5), thin, broadly imbri- 
cate, at length reflexed. Petals 0. Stamens 10 (or fewer), free ; fila- 
ments filiform, anthers elliptical, versatile, dehiscing longitudinally. 
Ovary shortly stipitate, narrowed above and below; style slender, 
stigma small, terminal; ovules few. Legume (not seen in the African 
species) ‘obliquely orbicular, ovate or broadly oblong, flat, rigidly 
coriaceous, 2-valved, often with thickened margins. Seeds 1 or 2, 
large . . . . exalbuminous.”—Unarmed shrubs or trees. Leaves un- 
equally pinnate. Stipules small, caducous or (in following species) 
rather large subpersistent. Flowers rather small, racemose. Bracts 
and bracteoles minute, deciduous. 
A small genus, chiefly Tropical American, with but 1 species African, and 1 or 2 in 
the Indian Islands. 
1. C. senegalensis, Planch. ; Benth. in Linn. Trans, xxv. 314, A 
shrub or small tree, wholly glabrous. Leaves 4—7-foliolate. leaflets 
alternate, submembranous or at length coriaceous, elliptic-oblong or 
varying from ovate to obovate-elliptical, shortly acuminate or apiculate, 
base slightly unequal, more or less rounded, reticulation subprominent 
or not conspicuous, 2-4 in. long, 1-24 in. broad; petiolules 1—2 lines. 
Stipules erect, rather rigid, venose, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate acumi- 
nate, connate below on the inner margins, $-lin. long. Racemes ter- 
minal, often on lateral branchlets or extra-axillary, rather laxly many- 
flowered, 3-6 in. long. Pedicels slender, }-2 in. long. Bracts and 
bracteoles at base or below the middle of pedicel, minute, deciduous, or 
bracteoles present at flowering. Calyx-tabe very short, turbinate, 
segments broadly elliptical, subequal, 2-3 lines long. Filaments gla- 
brous. Ovary densely villous, narrowed below into the short free 
stipes, above into the slender at length glabrous style; ovules 5-6. 
Legume not seen, 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot! Eppah, Barter! Nun river and Fer- 
nando Po, Mann! 
M. Baillon finds occasionally 5 sepals (Adansonia, vi. 200). A specimen of probabl 
the same species isin the British Museum Herbarium from 8. Leone (4 sieeataed with 
I 
an immature fruit—compressed about 1 in. long and nearly as broad, very oblique, 
the valves coriaceous, transversely rugulose, tawny-tomentose. 
27. DETARIUM, Jussieu; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i, 585. 
Calyx divided nearly or quite to the base into 4 (rarely 5) segments, 
subvalvate with very narrowly bevelled imbricate margins. Petals 0. 
