Burkea.| LEGUMINOSZ (Harv.) 27 L 2 
appressedly pubescent on both sides, pale underneath ; racemes in a 
terminal panicle, many-flowered; bracts linear-subulate, deciduous ; 
pedicels at length longer than the calyx; inner sepals with scarious, 
denticulate margins ; petals broadly obovate, longer than the calyx, the 
claw and the base of the filaments hirsute; style glabrous, equalling 
the ovary, stigma from a conical base broadly peltate ; legume ovato- 
lanceolate, acute, multistriate, puberulous, strongly compressed, 1-2- 
seeded. Sond. J. c. See 
Has. Crocodile River and forests on the North side of Magaliesberg, Transvaal, 
Zeyher, No. 554. (Herb. Hk., Sd.) eee! hee See 
‘A very tall tree. Twigs furrowed, rusty. Leaflets opposite, 4 lines long, 1 line 
wide. Racemes 3-4 inches long. Legume 2-2} inches long. ip ae ere 
LXXIL. BURKEA, Hook. oes 
Calyx 5-parted, the segments equal, imbricate. Petals 5, subequal, 
patent. Stamens 10; filaments very short, the alternate slightly long- 
est; anthers oblong, equal, tipped with a deciduous gland. Ovary sub- 
sessile, 2-ovuled ; sfyle very short ; stigma obliquely peltate, concave, 
with a wavy margin. Legume plano-compressed, oblong, narrowed at 
base, stipitate, thinly coriaceous, indehiscent. Seeds ovate-orbicular. 
Embryo straight. Benth. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 593-594- 
_ Ashrub or small tree. ‘Leaves abruptly bipinnate ; pinnz in 2 pairs, opposite ; 
leaflets about 8 on each pinna, alternate, distant. Racemes axillary, many-flowered. 
Named in compliment to Mr. Joseph Burke, a collector, employed by the late Earl 
of Derby, and who, jointly with the late Mr. Charles Zeyher, accomplished a very 
extensive journey beyond the Gariep, making large collections of plants. = __ 
1. B. africana, Hook. MSS. Ic. Pl. lic. ree” 
Has. Magaliesberg, Burke § Zeyher! (Herb. Hk.,D., Sd.) 
12-18 feet high. Branches thick, short, the younger coveret 
tum. Stipules minute. Petioles 3-6 inches long, with ' 
alternately pinnate pinnez ; pinnules petiolulate, ol 
the younger minutely silvery, the older coriaceous and giz ute. 
shorter than the leaves. Flowers small, subsessile. Sepals 1 
twice as long sa the calyx, "Us 
Calye s-parted nearly to the base, more or less unequal. Petals 5, 
clawed, more or less unequal. Stamens 10, free, the 3 upper commonly 
sterile (sometimes wanting); fertile anthers opening by 2 terminal pores: 
or short clefts. Ovary sessile or stipitate, multiovulate; style filiform ; 
stigma simple. Legume terete or compressed, linear, many-seeded. Hndl. 
Gen. 6781. DC. Prod. 2, 489. : 
_ A vast tropical and subtropical genus of trees, shrubs, suffrutices, and herbs. ee 
Leaves alternate, simply and abruptly pinnate, often having glands on the petioles. — 
wers yellow or orange. Name, the kaoova of Dioscorides. : Se 
ANALYSIS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN SPECIES. 
I. Sepals obtuse: 
Shrubs or large suffrutices : leafl. pale and pubescent beneath: — 
Leafl. lanceolate, acute or acuminate ; jugal glandsslender ( 
Leafl. oval-oblong, obtuse ; jugal glands tubercular — 
Suffruticose. Leafl. glabrous, green, chlongleaineishiiie 
Herbaceous. Leafl. glabrous, oblong-obovate, obliqui 
ees gume oblong-orbicular, flat ...:  .. « 
II. Sepalsvery acute. Suffruticose, Leafl. minute, lin 
