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Stamens 10, free; anthers elliptical or rotundate, versatile, dehiscing 
longitudinally. Ovary sessile, 2-ovulate, ovules pendulous; style 
slender, stigma terminal, capitellate. Legume drupaceous, indehiscent, 
thick, roundish, compressed, with strong fibres traversing the mesocarp, 
a bony endocarp and crustaceous epicarp. Seed solitary, exalbuminous. 
—Unarmed trees, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves abruptly pinnate, 
though from the frequent alternation of the leaflets seeming impari- 
pinnate at first sight, more or less translucently gland-dotted. Stipules 
inconspicuous. Flowers paniculate, small, white or pale, fragrant. 
Bracts and bracteoles minute, caducous. Fruit edible. 
Confined to Tropical Asia. 
1. D. senegalense, Gmelin ; DC. Prod. ii. 521. Tree; extremities 
pubescent or glabrous and more or less glaucous. Leaflets 6-12, alter- 
nate or opposite, elliptic- or ovate-oblong, obtuse, entire or emarginate 
at the 5 ie base, excepting sometimes in one or two of the upper 
leaflets, broadly rounded, broadly and obscurely undulate-crenate or 
entire, glabrous or very thinly pubescent, sometimes glaucous beneath, 
reticulate when dry, more or lias coriaceous, variable in size, averaging 
14-2 in. in length in the typical (originally described) form, 2-8 (44) 
in. in others; petiolules 14—2 lines. Flowers small, in axillary fasci- 
cled or solitary panicles, often from the nodes of fallen leaves or scales, 
1 or 2-6 in. in length, each with a distinct rachis giving off alternate 
lateral racemes or spikes. Bracts minute, concave, very early de- 
ciduous. Pedicels very short or 0. Sepals 2—24 lines long, pilose or 
nearly glabrous within. Fruit usually nearly round, compressed, 
14-24 in. in diameter, 1-1} in. in thickness; epicarp thinly crusta- 
ceous when dry, smooth or nearly so, the pulpy edible mesocarp is 
traversed by numerous fibrous processes from the surface of the bony 
endocarp. Seed compressed, about 1 in. in diameter.—Fl. Senegambie, 
i. 269, t. 59.—D. microcarpum, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. i. 271; D. 
Heudelotianum, Baill. in Adans. vi. 201. 
Upper Guinea. a. Leaflets usually 8-12, 14-2} in. long, rachis often thinly 
pilose. Panicles usually below the leaves. Flowers subsessile; connective of the 
anthers (at least sumetimes) minutely apiculate. Senegambia, Perrottet! Gambia, 
Heudelot ! 
8. Leaflets about 8, 2-3 or even 5 in. long, glabrous and glaucous. Panicles glaucous 
or pnlverulent-glaucous; flowers shortly pedicellate; anthers muticous. Niger, 
Barter! Dr. Baikie! 
North Central. Bornu (Schieinf. in Relig. Kotsch. ii). 
Nile Land. Nuba Mountains South of Kordofan, Kotschy (Schweinf. 1. c.). 
_ The Upper Guinea forms a and 8 may prove specifically different, but there exist 
intermediates (Senegambia, Heudelot, No. 571) which hardly justify their separation at 
present. The tree is described both by Guillemin and Perrottet and by Barter to be a 
small one (15-25 ft.), but the Governor of the Gambia sends to the Kew Museum sec- 
tions of the trunk 2 ft. or 2 ft. 6 in. in diameter. 
28. COPAIFERA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i 585. 
(As to the African species with unijugate leaves). Flowers small. 
Calyx divided nearly or quite to the base into 4 more or less imbricate 
