Bandeiraa.] xlvii. § C2Esalpinie^e (Oliver). 285 



2. B. simplicifolia, Benth. in Linn. Trans, xxv. 306. Branching 1 

 shrub, with glabrous shining- branches. Leaves subcoriaceous, shortly 

 petiolate, ovate-oblong, obtuse or rounded above, 3-nerved, glabrous, 

 shining, 2 in. long. Racemes dense, erect, terminal or extra-axillary, 

 on long peduncles, with the calyx hoary-tomentose. Calyx-tube gra- 

 dually dilating, ventricose and 5-fid above. Petals ovate-oblong, obtuse, 

 shortly clawed, spreading, greenish. Filaments pubescent below. 

 Gynophore equalling the petals, filiform. — Schotia simplicifolia, Vahl; 

 DC. Prod. ii. 508; Schum. et Thonn. PI. Guin. 212. 



Upper Guinea. Gold Coast, Thonning. 



The above description is taken from Schumacher and Thonning. I have 

 not seen a specimen. Dr. Baillon figures in Adansonia, vi. 2, fig. 1, a specimen of 

 Vahl's type from the Jussieuan Herbarium. The racemes are represented as lateral, 

 extra-axillary, ascending and shorter than or scarcely equalling the leaves, as well as 

 terminal. The trinervation of the leaves is conspicuous, the lateral nervures consider- 

 ably within the margin and evanescing above the middle. In the herbarium of the 

 British Museum is a Bandeircea from Cape Coast (Brass), in which the leaves are less 

 distinctly 3-nerved than in B. speciosa, and the racemes shorter, though exceeding the 

 leaves. I think this probably B. simplicifolia; indeed I much doubt if 2?. speciosa be 

 specifically distinct. 



3. B. tenuiflora, Benth. in Linn. Trans, xxv. 307. Climbing shrub, 

 attaining 15-20 ft., glabrous throughout. Leaves thinly coriaceous, 

 subsessile, elliptic-oblong, shortly and rather obtusely acuminate or 

 cuspidate or obtuse, shining above, venation prominent beneath, the 

 lowest pair of lateral nervures intramarginal, and inconspicuous above ; 

 2-5 or occasionally 6 in. long, 1-2J in. broad ; petiole J-2 lines. Ra- 

 cemes many-flowered, terminal, pedunculate. Bracts ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute, deciduous, 1 line long. Pedicels J— J in. Calyx-tube f-1 in. 

 long, glabrous, sulcate below when dry, campanulate and shortly 

 deltoid-toothed above. Petals oval or oblanceolate, narrowed below, 

 J in. long. Filaments filiform, glabrous. Ovary shortly and broadly 

 oblong, on a very slender stipes, projecting | in. ; ovules 4. Legume 

 (immature ?) in the specimen, J-f in. long, rounded above, bearing 

 laterally the slender subulate style; 1-1 J lines long, much inflated, 

 thinly crustaceous, black, smooth and glabrous. — Griffonia physocarpa, 

 Baill. in Adansonia, vi. 188 t. 2, figs. 2-5. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann! 



14. BAUHINIA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen.* Plant, i. 575. 



Calyx-tube turbinate, campanulate to elongate-cylindrical, limb spatb- 

 aceous or 5-toothed, -lobed, or -partite. Petals 5, subequal, or posterior 

 smaller, sometimes with a bifid basa 1 callus, imbricate in aestivation. 

 Stamens 10 or fewer, 2, 4-5 or all antheriferous ; filaments of perfect 

 stamens free or nearly so, unequal ; anthers ovate-oblong or linear, 

 dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary stipitate or subsessile, 2— go -ovulate ; 

 style slender, filiform, or very short; stigma terminal, dilated and 

 obliquely peltate or inconspicuous. Legume oblong or linear, coriaceous 

 or woody indehiscent or 2-valved, 2-co -seeded. Seeds compressed, 



