Baikicea.] xlvii. § clsssalpiniejs (oliver). 309 



recurved, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary stipitate, densely villous, 

 " style elongate, slender, glabrous ;" stigma small ; " ovules about 8." 

 Legume unknown. — Unarmed trees, excepting the inflorescence wholly 

 glabrous. Leaves abruptly pinnate, leaflets 2-1-jugate, coriaceous. 

 Mowers very large in very short few-flowered, terminal or subterminal 

 stout racemes ; bracts and bracteoles very small, caducous. 

 Known only from W. Tropical Africa. 



Leaflets 2-1 pair, usually 2-4 in broad. Racemes 1 in., 3-7 flowered. 



Flowers £ ft. long 1.1?. iruignis. 



Leaflets 3-4 pairs, usually 1| in. broad or less. Racemes 14 in., 10-15 



flowered. Flowers 3-4 in. long 2. B. minor. 



1. B. insignis, Benth. in Linn. Trans, xxv. 314, t. 41. A tree of 

 30-40 ft. ; extremities moderately stout, terete. Leaflets usually in 

 2 or 1 pair, glabrous, variable in size, very coriaceous, the lateral leaflets 

 often alternate, obliquely elliptical or oblong-elliptical, probably ob- 

 tusely pointed or acuminate (our numerous leaflets are nearly all 

 eroded towards the apex), midrib prominent beneath, lateral nervures 

 obscure, and venation minutely areolate inconspicuous ; 3-4 to 10 in. 

 long, lj-4in. broad; petiolules stout, \'m. Axis of raceme 1 in. or 

 less, together with the short thick pedicels and oblong or clavate 

 flower-buds clothed with a short, thick, velvety, darkly ferruginous 

 tomentum. Calyx-tube turbinate, stout, J-f in. long; segments at 

 length about 3 in., silky-villous within. Petals 6 in. more or less, 

 externally thinly pilose as is their midrib within, lateral nervures directed 

 forwards. Stamens alternately shorter, the longer nearly equalling the 

 petals ; the short sheath villous externally. Stipes of ovary about 

 1 in. long. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann! 



2. B. minor, Oliv. Agreeing with B. insignis in general characters, 

 differing in the oval-oblong or ovate-lanceolate leaflets in 3-4 pairs, 

 3-5 in. long, 1^ in. broad, obtusely subacuminate ; racemes with more 

 numerous distichous smaller flowers ; filaments glabrous. Our speci- 

 men is fragmentary. 



Lower Guinea. Congo, Smith ! Consul Burton! 



A. specimen at the British Museum bears an immature pod, oblanceolate-falcate, about 

 4| in. long, 1^ in. broad towards the apex, tipped with the terminal persistent Btyle, 

 and narrowed to the gynophore, which is about l£ in. long. The specimen is labelled 

 " Westia grandijlora, Vahl?" 



24. SCHOTIA, Jacq. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 581. 



Calyx-tube turbinate, campanulate, or narrowly infundibuliform ; seg- 

 ments 4, much imbricate. . Petals 5, slightly unequal clawed or sub- 

 sessile, longer or shorter than the calyx, imbricate. Stamens 10, free 

 or shortly coherent below ; anthers uniform dehiscing longitudinally. 

 Ovary stipitate with elongate style and small terminal stigma ; ovules 

 4-8-10 or more. " Legume oblong, often falcate, compressed, coria- 



