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apice obtusus, tenuissime puberulus. Vexillum sessile, or- 
biculatum, emarginato-bifidum, calycem æquans; alæ lineari- 
oblongæ, vexillo sublongiores; carinæ petala alis consimilia 
nisi paullo latiora. Legumen (vix maturum) 3 poll. longum, 
9 lin. latum, rectum, stylo acuminatum, valvulis planis 
coriaceis glaberrimis. Semina circa 3. 
Differs from the preceding species in its smaller flowers, 
with a less coriaceous calyx shorter in proportion to the petals, 
besides the general pubescence of the branches. — 
3. Baphia hematoxylon, Hook. fil.; glabra, foliolis ovali- 
oblongis aeuminatis, calyce membranaceo glabro tridentato.— 
Podalyria hoematoxylon, Schum. et Thonn. Beskr. p. 202.— 
Carpolobia versicolor, G. Don, Gard. Dict. 1. p. 970 ?— 
Cape Coast, Don, Vogel; also Guinea, Thonning. 
Although. we have no hesitation, at the suggestion of Dr. 
Planchon, in referring the above three plants to the genus 
Baphia of Afzelius, so imperfectly figured and described by 
Loddiges (Bot. Cab. t. 367); yet we do not feel justified in 
identifying the B. hematoxylon as a species with the original 
B. nitida, which is said to have pinnate leaves. Brunner (Flora 
1840, v. 2. Beibl. p. 22), describes a plant which he supposes 
may be B. nitida, which is evidently the Dialium nitidum, and 
can hardly be the one Afzelius had in view. Desvaux has 
described, under the name of Delaria pyrifolia, a Guinea plant 
Which must belong either to the present or to one of the two 
following genera. The calyx and inflorescence described by him 
are those of Baphia, but the broad leaves and stipitate ovary 
refer rather to Leucomphalus. The same author's Delaria 
ovalifolia is probably very different. We know of no Brazilian 
plant at all like it. 
BnacrEonaRia, Hochst. Char. Gen. Calyx spathaceus antice 
fissus, demum bipartitus, segmentis reflexis, zstivatione val- 
vatis, integris v. postico bidentato. ` Petala subsequilonga, 
calycem superantia ; vexillum orbiculatum, ale et carinz 
petala ovata. Stamina 10, libera, omnia fertilia, antheris 
oblongis. ^ Ovarium subsessile, villosissimum, biovulatum, 
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