Connanis.] xLvi. connauacla: (bakeu). 45 7 



Leaflets 5-7. Leaves glabrous. 



Carpels solitary. Pod not at all compressed, oblong . . . 2. C. Duparmt^tiamtu 



Carpels 5. Pod obliquely obovate, much compressed . . i. C.Jtoniund^t 

 Leaves ferruginous beneath. 



Pedicels slender, glabrous, exceeding the calyx 4. C. Thomtom. 



Pedicels stout, densely ferruginous, shorter than the calyx . 5. C. SmfathmnmH% 



Petals equalling the calyx ^ (; pubricm,. 



Petals oue-third as loug aa the calyx 7. C'. Manmu. 



1. C. africanusy Lam. Diet. ii. 95. A shrub of 15-20 ft., with woody, 

 terete, glabrous branches. Petiole 2-3 in. long, the upper leaves simple, the 

 lower 3-foliolate ; leaflets elliptical or obovate, 4-6 in. lonj^ by alx)ut half as 

 broad, acuminate, the base rounded, the terminql one on a petiolule about 1 in. 

 long, the lateral ones opposite, shorL-staJked ; texture coriaceous, both sides 

 glabrous, only the main veins raised beneath. Flowers in ample, terminal, 

 thyrsoid panicles, leafy in the lower part. Pedicels ferruginous,' 1 line or 

 less long. Calyx | in. deep, the teeth oblong, obtuse, rather unet^ual, at 

 first imbricated. Petals oblong, three times as long aa the calyx, close and 

 nearly 1 line broad. Longer stamens equalling the corolla. Legume sub- 

 compressed, distinctly stalked, rigid, coriaceous, glabrous, \\ 2 in.' long, \-\ 

 in. broad, the upper edge curved, the Lower nearly straight.— Cav. Diss. vii. 

 375. t. 221. Planch, in Linnaea, xxiii. 426. Omphalobium a/ricanum, DC. 

 Prod. ii. 85 ; Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 156. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet ! Bidjem ! Heudelot .' Sierra Leonr , AftrlUs ! 

 Smeaihmann ! Bun ! Guinea, Barter ! Mann I 



2. C. ? Duparquetianus, Baillon in Adam. vii. 236. A shrub, 12- 

 15 ft. high, with firm, terete, glabrous branches. Petiole 6-8 in. long, gla- 

 brous, woody, much thickened at the base. Leaflets 5-7, oblong or obovate- 

 oblong, the terminal one in one of our specimens 1 ft. long by 6 in. broad, 

 cuspidate, the base subcuneate, the lateral ones not opposite, on dilated indu- 

 rated stalks, \-\ in. long ; texture coriaceous ; upper surface rather glossy, 

 the lower with the veins and veinlets prominently raised, both quite glabrous. 

 Flowers in dense, fascicled, 4-6-flowered racemes under 1 in. long, from the 

 main branches; the peduncles and short pedicels densely ferruginous. Calyi 

 \ in. deep, ferruginous-velvety, the divisions oblong. Petals two to three 

 times as long as the calyx, the longer stamens equalling them. Style 0. 

 Pod like a small acorn, not compressed, oblong, very slightly oblique, | in. 

 long, glabrous, with a short distinct stalk. 



Upper Quinea. Old Calabar, Mann I Duparquet. 



This will doubtless have to form a new genus, but at we do not po»»rM npf fruit, we 

 leave it here for the present. It has no style and only a single carpt-l. The fruit it not at 

 all compressed, and very slightly oblique, and, so far as we can judge from our imperfectly 

 matured specimen, may not unlikely be indehiscent. M. Baillon tMigot to it two ovule*, 

 but we have only been able to see one. 



3. C. floribxindus, Schum.et Thonn. PL Guin. 299. A woody climber. 

 10-15 ft. high, the branches terete, ferruginous when young. Petioles 3 4 

 in. long, firm, glabrous, incrassated at the base. Leaflets 5 7, obovale-ob- 

 long, 4-5 in. long, H-2 in. broad, cuspidate, the base slightly roundwl 

 or subcuneate, the lateral ones opposite or alternate on short petiolulc« , 



