294 xlvii. § c^salpinie^: (oliver). [Berlinia. 



2 in. broad, flat, with the ventral suture thickened and laterally ridged ; 

 valves rugulose, tawny. Stipes very oblique, thick, 1 in. long. — Adan- 

 sonia, vi. t. 3, fig. 10. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Smeathmann! Bassa Cove, Ansell ! CamaroonB 

 river, Mann I Old Calabar, Mann I W. C. Thomson! Gaboon, Griffon du Bellay. 



Mozamb. Distr. Rovuma river, Dr. Kirk I The specimen, however, is mounted 

 along with the legume of an Afzelia, so that it is possible there may have been trans- 

 position of labels. 



Var. Heudelotiana (Baillon in Adans. vi. 185, t. 3, figs. 8, 9.) Flowers smaller, 

 about 14 in. in length. Bracteoles thinner, sericeous throughout internally. Calyx 

 nearly glabrous. (Style short, circinate in our specimens.) 



Senegambia, Heudelot! Mr. Barter sent the same variety, but with larger flowers, 

 from the Niger Expedition, the name of the locality not clear. If the difference in 

 length of the style be constantly associated with the other characters named, M. 

 Baillon's 6pecies probably ought to be maintained. 



Vahl, in the " Skrivter af Naturhistorie Selskabet " (1802). p. 117, published a genus 

 of Leguminosae under the name Westia, basing it upon two plants ( W. grandiflora and 

 W. parviflora) from Upper Guinea. The description being wholly insufficient to 

 enable one to identify the genus, I applied to Prof. Lange, of Copenhagen, through 

 whose kindness I have been allowed to examine one of Vahl's species — W. grandijlora 

 (Guinea, Isert coll.) This turns out to be Berlinia acuminata, Sol. As W. parvi- 

 Jlora must be gerierically distinct, the right course appears to be simply to suppress the 

 genus. 



2. B. auriculata, Benth. in Linn. Trans, xxv. 309. A small glabrous 

 tree, with terete smooth branches. Leaves 2-3-jugate, leaflets thinly 

 coriaceous, elliptic-oblong or the lower smaller leaflets ovate-oblong, 

 obtusely pointed or rather obtusely broadly and usually obliquely acu- 

 minate, rounded at base, glabrous, reticulation subprominent, lower 

 3-5 in., upppr from 5-9 in. long, 2-3 in. broad ; petioles £ in. more or 

 less. Stipules inconspicuous. Flowers in short terminal panicled pu- 

 berulous racemes, overtopped by the leaves. Bracts small, very early 

 caducous. Pedicels J-J in. long, slender. Involucral bracteoles thinly 

 coriaceous, oblanceolate-oblong, obtuse, puberulous outside, §— § in. 

 long. Calyx glabrous, tube slender, J in. long, segments linear, nearly 

 equal, ciliolate, J in. Posterior petal lj-lf in. long, lamina bilobate, 

 1 in. broad, cuneately narrowed into a long winged claw distinctly 

 auricled at the base ; lateral and anterior petals shorter than or equalling 

 the calyx, more or less dilated and abruptly acuminate. Stamens 10, 

 all perfect; filaments filiform elongate, excepting the posterior one 

 very shortly and unequally connate at base. Ovary pubescent-tomen- 

 tose, shortly stipitate ; style long, filiform ; stigma capitellate. Ovules 

 about 6. Legume .... 



Upper Guinea. River Camaroons, Mann! 



Very nearly allied to B. acuminata, var. Heudelotiana, more nearly perhaps than is 

 the latter to the large-flowered form of B. acuminata with silky calyx and thick invo- 

 lucral bracteoles. The minor characters, however, noted in the claws, with the smaller 

 flowers and relatively longer, claw of the posterior petal, distinguish our specimens. 



3. B. bracteosa, Benth. in Linn. Trans, xxv. 309. Tree of 40 ft., 

 flowering branches stout, terete, glabrous, excepting the hoary- 

 puberulous inflorescence. Leaves 4-3-jugate, 1-1 J ft. long; leaflets 

 subopposite or a short distance apart, thinly coriaceous, oblanceolate- 



