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plano-compressum, coriaceo-lignosum, ad suturam utramque 
presertim. seminiferam incrassatum, 3-6-spermum. | Semina 
orbieulata, funiculo basi carunculato. 
Notwithstanding the coherence of the tenth stamen, we have 
no hesitation in referring this plant to Milletia, an Asiatic and 
African genus, numerous in species, including the two which 
Hochstetter has endeavoured to distinguish under the name of 
Berrebera. The pod, of all the species where it is known, is 
intermediate between that of the shrubby Tephrosie of the 
section Mundulia, and that of Sphinctolobium virgilioides : the 
valves adhere closely round the seeds till perfect maturity, when 
the pod, in drying up, opens sometimes, if not always, in two 
valves, 
Puare XXXII. XXXIII. Fig. 1. wing of the corolla; f. 2. 
keel ; f. 3. stamens and pistil; f. 4. pistil: all magnified. 
B. Aboensis, pube copiosiore, foliolis angustioribus, bracteolis 
majoribus ramulis floriferis magis evolutis.—Abóh, Ansell. 
— Very near the Fernando Po form, and not distinguishable 
asa species. The specimens are, however, incomplete and 
without fruit. ! 
Besides the above, the Senegambian collection contains 
Several species of this and allied genera. Among them two, or 
perhaps three, have every appearance of Milletie, though 
without fruit : a fourth, agreeing with Schumacher’s and Thon- 
ning's Robinia cyanescens, has a somewhat different habit: a 
fifth, the Lonchocarpus laxiflorus, Guill. et Perr., appears to be 
congener with the Abyssinian and Nubian PAilenoptera ; and a 
sixth, in flower only, is evidently the type of a new genus. To 
some of the above may possibly be referable the Robinia multi- 
flora, Schum. et Thonn., R: Thonningii, Schum., and R. Gui- 
 Reensis, Willd., all three Guinea plants. 
There is likewise one W. Tropical African species described 
of the American genus Andira, viz. A. Africana, Guill. et Perr. 
from Senegambia. 
Barn, Afzl. Char. Gen. ref.— Calyx spathaceus, antice fiests, 
postice integer vel 3-5-denticulatus. Corolle sestivatio papi- 
lionacea; vexillum orbiculatum ; ale ovato-oblonge ; carina 
