100 SCHOMBURGK’S GUIANA PLANTS. 
ineequilateris 2—3-nerviis glabriusculis, florum  fasciculis 
axillaribus, pedunculo communi brevissimo.—Arbor, ramis 
tenuibus ramosissimis.  Ramuli, pedicelli, petioli et nonnun- 
quam nervi foliolorum pilis brevibus subglandulosis pubescen- 
tes. Folia iis Bauhiniarum bifoliolatarum similia. Petiolus 
2—3 lin. Foliola 1—142 poll. longa, 4 poll. lata, nerv 
majore lateri interiori approximato. Pedicelli vix à poll., 
ad axillas bractearum ovatarum, concavarum, imbricatarum 
nati. Sepala 4, membranacea, decidua. Petala 5, parum 
inzequalia, cum staminibus disco crassiusculo subperigyno 
inserta. Ovarium pubescens 1-(vel 2-?) ovulatum. Stylus 
glaber inflexus, stigmate magno capitato. Legumen, nondum 
maturum, 3 lin. longum et latum, plano-convexum, carnosum, 
extus verrucosum pubescens. 
Besides the above, I have seen the «bos following -— 
can species in the Paris Herbarium :— 
C. crassifolia; foliolis unijugis ovatis emarginato-acumi- 
natis valde inzquilateris penninerviis coriaceis glaberrimis 
fasciculis florum axillaribus, pedunculo communi brevissimo: 
—Foliola 24 poll. Flores majores quam in affinibus.—* $ 
Brasilia.” 
C. marginata; foliolis unijugis ovali-oblongis emarginato- 
acuminatis valde inæquilateris penninerviis vix coriaceis 
glabris, floribus subracemosis axillaribus, pedunculo communi 
pedicellis multo breviore.—Foliola 14-pollicaria, acumi 
sinu latiusculo emarginato, arista minima intra emarginatura- 
Pedicelli semipollicares. Legumina vix 2 lin. longa, fu fusco- 
villosa. 
. C. racemosa; foliolis unijugis siphanigic obtusis valde in- 
eequilateris penninerviis coriaceis glabris, racemis axillaribus 
foliis vix brevioribus, — ne a 
E Guiana Gallica? — 
= These American Ojminarà are precisely Miei to 
Asiatic and African decandrous ones, in the flower and 
inflorescence; but they may perhaps be distinguished as 
section by their small nearly orbicular fruit. I have 
- indeed seen it ripe, but i in three of hesaba fiet ec 
