Macrolobium.] xi.vii. § CESALPiNiEiE (oliver). 299 



3. M. demonstrans. Climbing shrub; branches stout, rugose, 

 striate. Leaves 3-jugate, leaflets coriaceous oblong, shortly acuminate, 

 unequally rounded and subauricled on the outer edge at base, smooth 

 and shining above, opaque and ferruginous beneath with prominent 

 midrib and venation ; reaching 8 in. in length by 3— 3-J in. in breadth. 

 Racemes axillary, branched and paniculate, 6 in. long. Bracts sub- 

 tending the branches of inflorescence apparently obsolete or caducous, 

 their stipules lanceolate glabrous J-j in. long. Involucral bracteoles 

 ovate-lanceolate, thickly coriaceous, puberulous. Calyx-lobes 5, sub- 

 equal, membranous, oblong, acute, glabrous, slightly exceeding the 4 

 smaller petals. Posterior petal ample, limb 2-lobate, claw long and 

 stout. Fertile stamens 3, exserted, rest gland-like or 0. Ovary 

 shortly stipitate, rusty-villous, 4-ovulate; style slender, glabrous; 

 stigma capitellate. Legume .... Vouapa (Pentisomeris) demonstrans, 

 Baill. in Adans. vi. 180, t. 3, figs. 1-5. 



Upper Guinea. Gaboon, Duparquet and Griffon du Bellay. 

 Description from Baillon. I have not seen specimens. 



4. M. stipulaceum, Benth. in Linn. Trans, xxv. 308. Small tree ; 

 ultimate branches rather stout, appressed-pubescent or tomentose at 

 first, closely invested by the sheathing stipules which considerably ex- 

 ceed the internodes. Leaves ample, 3-6-jugate, rachis terete, finely 

 tomentose or glabrate ; leaflets submembranous or thinly coriaceous, 

 oval-oblong, finely rather abruptly acuminate, cuneate or rounded at 

 the base, glabrous above, more or less silvery with closely appressed 

 minute silky hairs beneath, midrib prominent ; lower leaflets 2J-4 in., 

 upper 6-12 in. long with the acumen of J-f in., 1J-3 in. broad. 

 Stipules subcoriaceous, ample, acuminate, connate by their inner mar- 

 gins, loosely sheathing the stem, 2-2J in. long, longitudinally nerved. 

 Flowers in small dense many-flowered fascicled rusty-puberulous com- 

 pound racemes or panicles, 2-3 in. long and broad, from the wood of 

 a previous year. Bracts present at flowering, cymbiform, 2 lines long. 

 Pedicels slender, J— § in. Involucral bracteoles obovate obtuse, to- 

 mentose externally, J— J in. long, nearly or quite equalling the flower. 

 Calyx deeply 4-fid, lobes ovate, scarcely acute, posterior lobe bidentate 

 or emarginate, tube turbinate, 1 line. Posterior petal with a broad 

 2-lobed lamina, equalling the claw the margins of which are incurved ; 

 4 smaller petals entire. Perfect stamens 3, filaments elongate ; anthers 

 elliptic-oblong, versatile, remainder very minute or suppressed. Ovary 

 subsessile, pilose ; style elongate, recurved, pilose below ; stigma capi- 

 tate. Ovules 7-8. Legume not seen. 



Upper Guinea. River Gaboon, Mann ! 



17. DANIELLIA, Bennett; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 580. 



Calyx-tube narrowly funnel-shaped, limb 4-partite, segments nearly 

 equal, broadly imbricate, deciduous. Petals 5, the lateral and anterior 

 very minute and evanescent, the posterior only usually apparent at 



