Sivartzia.] xlvii. § papilionace^; (baker). 257 



fleshy, two-valved or indehiscent. — Unarmed erect trees with impari- 

 pinnate or simple leaves. 



A large genus ; all the other species Tropical American. 



1. S. madagascariensis, Desv. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. i. ix. 424. A tree 

 20-30 ft. high, the branchlets woody, slender, glabrous or a little silky. 

 Petiole an inch long-; rachis 4-6 in. ; leaflets 9-11, the lateral ones 

 alternate on petiolules a line long, oblong, 2-3 in. long, blunt, coria- 

 ceous, upper surface green, glabrous, lower clothed with fine grey or 

 subferruginous silky tomentum. Flowers solitary or in few-flowered 

 irregular racemes, the pedicels firm, slender, spreading or deflexed, 

 1^-2 in. long, densely silky, thickened below the flower; bud glo- 

 bose, densely adpressed silky, 4 lines in diameter. Calyx splitting 

 down to the base as the flower expands, finally spreading or deflexed. 

 Petal orbicular, an inch deep, silky on the back. Anthers mostly small, 

 ovate or subglobose, the outer ones larger oblong. Pod sometimes a 

 foot long, J-f in. thick, cylindrical, slightly furrowed, coriaceous, 

 brown, the space between the pericarp and woody endocarp filled by 

 transverse partitions enclosing gummy matter. — S. marginata, Benth. in 

 Hook. Journ. Bot. ii. 87. 



Upper Guinea. Nupe, Barter! 



North Central. Banks of Lake Tscnad, E. Vogel ! 



Nile Land. Madiy Speke and Grant! Wood very hard, deep red. 



Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch ! 



South Central. Batoka Highlands, Dr. Kirk ! 



Mozamb. Distr. Maravi country, west of Lake Nyassa, Dr. Kirk ! 



91. CORDYLA, Lour. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 562. 



Stamens inserted high up in the calyx, which is entire and turbinate 

 in bud, splitting as the flower expands into four or five irregular divi- 

 sions. Petals none. Stamens indefinite, free or very slightly connate 

 at the base, the filaments filiform ; anthers small, ovate, subuniform, 

 dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary long-stalked, multiovulate ; style 

 short, subulate ; stigma small, terminal. Pod ovoid, acuminate, 

 pulpy, with a coriaceous pericarp. Seeds few. 



A single species, confined to Tropical Africa. 



1. C. africana, Lour.; DC. Prod. ii. 521. A tree sometimes 12 ft. 

 in circumference, the bark grey-corky, the branchlets slender, woody, 

 glabrous or slightly grey- villous. Petiole an inch long; rachis 6-9 

 in. ; leaflets in 9-12 pairs and a terminal one, the former not quite 

 opposite on petiolules 2 lines long, ovate or oblong, lj-2in. long, base 

 rounded, apex blunt, subcoriaceous, both sides glabrous or the midrib 

 beneath a little downy. Flowers in copious 6-12-flowered racemes 

 1-2 in. long. Pedicels \-\ in. long, glabrous or downy. Calyx coria- 

 ceous, 5-6 lines deep, glabrous or more or less grey-downy, slit down 

 into deltoid lobes to where the stamens are inserted, which is about 

 halfway down. Stamens 30-35, \ in. long, the filament yellow, mem- 



