Cynometra. | XLVII. § CESALPINIEH (OLIVER). 317 
Leaflets 1-2-jugate, ovate-lanceolate, falcate, acuminate. Flowers 
stipitate beyond the bracteoles ba a ee 2 4 OC xlamsfora. 
Leaflets 2-jugate, ovate-elliptic, acuminate. Bracteoles at base of 
calyx-tube . a ce 5. CO. Afzelii. 
1. C. Wogelii, Hovk. f. Fl. Nigrit. 328. A small tree or shrub- 
like ; extremities leafy, glabrous or finely pubescent at first. Leaflets 
unijugate, rarely bijugate, sessile, more or less coriaceous, oval oval- 
oblong or oblanceolate-oval, but slightly oblique, narrowed to the 
broad obtuse usually emarginate or minutely bifid apex, glabrous or 
with faint pubescence on the midrib beneath, reticulation not prominent, 
1}—84 in. long, $—-1} in. broad; petiole short and thick, } in. or less. 
Flowers white or rose in very short, often dense and many-tlowered 
pubescent racemes or fascicles. Pedicels }—} in., slender. Bracts 
scarious, concave, broadly rotundate, 1 line long, deciduous, closely 
imbricate over the unopened racemes; bracteoles concave or condu- 
plicate, carinate, before the lengthening out of the pedicel wholly en- 
closing the bud, their margins valvate on the outer convex surface, 
imbricate on the inner face, caducous or occasionally remaining till ex- 
pansion on the lower part of the pedicel. Calyx-lobes 4, 2 considerably 
narrower. Petals subequal, oval or oblong, acute or apiculate. Sta- 
mens usually 10. Ovary pilose, more or less stipitate, 1-ovulate. 
Legume thick, falcate, shortly oblong, rugose or corrugate, 3-1} in. 
long. Var.a. Pedicels about 4 in. long. Var. 8. (Heudelotiana, Planch. 
mss. in Hb.) pedicels $—? in. long. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot! Rio Nuiiez, Whitfield! Niger, T. Vogel! 
Ansell, Barter ! 
In one of the Senegambian specimens gathered by Heudelot, many of the leaflets 
are bijugate, but I do not notice any other difference. 
2. ©. Mannii, Oliv. A tree attaining 50-60 ft. (Mann); extre- 
mities puberulous or thinly pubescent. Leaflets usually 3-jugate, those 
of the upper pair considerably larger, coriaceous, shining above, sessile, 
obliquely oblanceolate-oval or -oblong, narrowed above into a distinct 
often narrow emarginate acumen, glabrous, rachis often pubescent; 
upper leaflets 14-3 in., lower 3-1 in. long. Flowers white, in axillary 
and subterminal pubescent racemes not exceeding 1} in. in length. Pe- 
dicels 1-4 in. Bracts broadly rotundate, scarious, 1-2 lines long, 
caducous ; bracteoles narrow, oblong, keeled, by no means enveloping 
the bud before the growth of the pedicels, caducous. Calyx-lobes 4, 
unequal in breadth. Petals 5, linear-oblong or -oval. Stamens 10; 
connective rather broad when fresh. Ovary pilose, uniovulate. Le- 
zume obliquely obovoid or ovoid, valves rather thin, rugose, 14-14 in. 
ong. 
Upper Guinea. Ambas bay and Gaboon river, Mann! Old Calabar, Thomson! 
Congo, Smith! 
Belonging to the same or a new and allied species is a plant collected in Guinea by 
Hove, in the British Museum Herbarium, with very dense ferruginous racemes; the 
leaflets 3-jugate, those of the upper pair 34 in., of the lower 24 in. long, the disparity 
between the upper and lower leaflets being less marked than in Mr. Mann’s plant. 
have not made an analysis of the flower. 
