Tas. 8819. 
BAIKIAEA INSIGNIS. 
Tropical West Africa. 
LEGUMINOSAE. Tribe AMHERSTIEAE. 
Barkrans, Benth. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 581. 
Baikiaea insignis, Benth. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vol. xxv. p. 314, t. 41 (1865) ; 
Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. ii. p. 309 (1871); Gard. Chron. 1918, vol. xiv. 
p. 56; species foliolis acuminatis floribus speciosissimis insignis. 
Arbor 10-13 m. alta (teste Mann) ; ramuli flexuosi, fere glabri, crebre lenticel- 
lati. Foliola 8, 4 vel 5, alterna vel subopposita, oblique oblongo-elliptica, 
sensim acuminata, subobtusa, basi obtusa uno latere umbonato-incrassata, 
12-30 em. longa, 4-8 cm. lata, integra, coriacea, utrinque crebre reticulata, 
infra nitidula; costa media supra plana, infra prominens; nervi laterales 
numerosi, inconspicui; petioluli incrassati, usque ad 1 cm. longi, trans- 
verse rugosi; stipulae parvae, ovato-lanceolatae, squamiformes. lores 
maximi, pauci, nutantes, ad apices ramorum conferti, alabastro dense 
fusco-velutini; bracteae et bracteolae late ovatae, concavae, 3-4 mm. 
longae, mox deciduae ; pedicelli robusti, usque ad 2 cm. longi, velutini. 
Calycis tubus crassus, turbinatus, circiter 1 cm. longus; segmenta anguste 
imbricata, linearia, usque ad 11 cm. longa, extra brunneo-velutina, intus 
adpresse sericeo-pilosa, sub anthesin recurvata. Petala usque ad 20 cm. 
longa, obovata, basi in unguem longe attenuata, utrinqgue medium versus 
laxe pilosa, dorsale intra aurantiaco, cetera alba, conspicue nervosa. 
Stamina 10, exserta; filamenta inferne inaequaliter connata, medio et 
infra pubescentia ; antherae curvatae, 1°2 cm. longae. Ovariwm longe 
stipitatum, circiter 8-ovulatum, dense villosum; stylus 5 cm. longus, 
glaber, gracilis, stigmate depresso-globoso coronatus. Fructus immaturus 
curvatus, circiter 18 em. longus et 4°5 cm, latus, transverse rugosus, 
minute velutinus.—J. HuTcHrinson. 
The genus Baikiaea was named in honour of the late 
Dr. William Balfour Baikie, of the Naval Medical Service, 
who was surgeon to the Niger Expedition of 1854 and 
did much to further our acquaintance with the vegetation 
of West Africa. The species now figured was first col- 
lected by the late Mr. G. Mann in the island or fernando 
Pe in 1863, and described by Mr. Bentham as B. insignis 
in 1865; it has since then been met with on the African 
continent in Lagos, the Cameroons, and the French 
Gaboon. There is a closely allied species, B. minor, 
OcToBER-DECEMBER, 1919. 
