298 xlvii. § CiESALPiNiEiE (oliver). [MacroloMum. 



compound or simple, axillary, rusty-puberulous racemes 1-2 in. in 

 length, occasionally growing' out to 4-6 in., pedicels 2-4 lines. Bracts 

 very early caducous. Involucral bracteoles thinly coriaceous, 2 J- 3 lines 

 long-. Calyx deeply 4-fid, tube very short, turbinate, 1 line or less, 

 posterior lobe shortly bifid. Posterior petal obcordate-cuneate or 

 cordate also at the base with a distinct claw, twice as long- as the 

 calyx ; four smaller petals oval to obovate, often much shorter than 

 calyx-lobes. Perfect stamens 3, exserted, remainder unequal, shorter 

 than calyx, with imperfect or effete anthers. Ovary subsessile pubes- 

 cent ; style slender, glabrous. Ovules 4-5-8. Legume flat, thickly 

 coriaceous, oblong or broadly oblong obtuse at each end, ventral suture 

 thickened with a double laterally prominent margin, valves shortly 

 tawny- or rusty-tomentose, obliquely rugose ; 7 in. to 1 ft. long, 1|-3J 

 in. broad. — Anthonotha macrophylla y P. de Beauv. Fl. Owar. i. 71. t. 42; 

 Adansonia, vi. t. 3. fig. 6 (Vouapa). 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia (Vouapa macrophylla, /S. Heudelotiana, Baill. in 

 Adans. vi. 179), Heudelot! Fernando Po, Barter! Mann! Confluence of Quorra and 

 Tschadda, Barter! Old Calabar, W. C. Thomson! and probably the same, Sierra 

 Leone, Smeathmann ! Don! 



Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto, Angola, Dr. Weltoitsch ! 



M. Baillon, I.e., describes besides, as collected by Heudelot in Senegambia, Antho- 

 nota crassifolia, sp. nov., differing from M. Palisoti in its more coriaceous leaves and 

 very contracted fascicled racemes from the old wood. Probably not distinct. The 

 lateral slender branchlets bearing the short fascicled racemes on their lower nodes, and 

 apparently terminating in a single leaf, at first sight strongly suggest their being leaves 

 florif'erous in their lower portions. This is well shown in Dr. Welwitsch's magnificent 

 series of this species. (Petal on expansion greenish-white, at length cinnamon-yellow. 

 Dr. W.) 



2. M. Heudelotii, Planch. ; Benth. in Linn. Trans, xxv. 308. Tall 

 or climbing shrub j branches slender, striate, puberulous. Leaves 3-2- 

 jugate, rachis 2J-4 in. long; leaflets firmly membranous, ovate-ellipti- 

 cal or elliptical, shortly and rather obtusely acuminate, mostly 

 rounded at base, early glabrous, midrib and lateral nerves prominent, 

 reticulation subprominent beneath, 2J-3J in. long, 1 J-lf in. broad ; 

 petiolules stout, 1-2 lines. Flowers fascicled at intervals along, or on 

 short lateral branches of, slender elongate leafless puberulous racemes ; 

 pedicels 2—3 lines. Bracts minute caducous. Involucral bracteoles 

 \ in. long, elliptical, obtuse, concave. Calyx-tube very short, lobes of 

 • limb thin, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, the posterior broader and minutely 

 bifid. Posterior and 2 lateral petals subequal, slightly exceeding calyx, 

 bilobate, subsessile or very shortly clawed ; 2 anterior petals minute, 

 squamiform. Fertile stamens 3, elongate, glabrous; rest minute, 

 abortive. Ovary tomentose, subsessile ; style short, incurved, glabrous. 

 Ovules 3—4. Legume 2—4 in. long, oblique, broad, thickly coriaceous, 

 tomentose or villous, obliquely rugose, ventral suture thickened with a 

 double raised line. — Vouapa (Triplisameris) eccplicans, Baill. in Adans. 

 vi. 181. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Senegambia, Heudelot! Kio Nunez, 



