310 xlvii. § cesalpiniejE (oliver). [Schotia. 



ceous, dehiscent or subindehiscent. Seeds exalbuminous." — Unarmed 

 trees or shrubs. Leaves abruptly pinnate with coriaceous often small 

 leaflets ; stipules small. Flowers red or purple, clustered in short 

 often dense panicles, heads, or racemes. Bracts and bracteoles cadu- 

 cous or subpersistent. 

 Confined to South extratropical Africa, with the following exceptions : — 



Leaflets small. Flowers in dense heads. Calyx-tube campanu- 



late, shorter than the lobes 1. S. capitata. 



Leaflets 4-6 in. FJowers in short dense racemes. Calyx-tube 



narrow, funnel-shaped, as long as or longer than lobes . . 2. S. humboldtioides. 



1. S. capitata, Bolle in Peters 1 Mossamb. Bot. 18. Glabrous. Leaflets 

 (in 4 or more 1 pairs) sessile, coriaceous, obovate-oblong, mucronate 

 or apiculate, narrowed or cuneate at base (in our fragment 3—7 lines 

 long-). Flowers numerous in dense heads. Calyx-tube campanulate. 

 Petals obovate distinctly clawed, half as long- again as the calyx-lobes. 

 Stamens much exserted, alternately shorter, connate at base. Ovary 

 glabrous, stipitate, stipes adnate to tube of calyx ; ovules about 10. 



Mozamb. Distr. Inhambane, under the Tropic of Capricorn, Dr. Peters. 



We have probably the same plant from Delagoa Bay, Forbes. M. Baillon, in " Adan- 

 sonia" (vi. 197), distinguishes a plant from this locality, collected by Forbes, as var. For- 

 btsiana otS.speciosa (S. tamariudifolia, Afz.). Dr. Peters' plaut I have not examined. 



2. S. humboldtioides, Oliv. A glabrous tree of 25-30 ft. ; 

 extremities (in our specimens) tumid immediately under each node, 

 narrowing gradually nearly to the middle of the internode. Leaves 

 J-l ft. long, 2— 4-jugate, glabrous ; leaflets thinly coriaceous, the 

 lowest pair near the base of the leaf, obliquely elliptic-oblong, or vary- 

 ing from lanceolate- to oblanceolate-oblong, narrowly acuminate, base 

 very oblique rounded; 4J-6in. long, If- 2^ broad; petiolule 0-1 line. 

 Racemes solitary, or 2 or 3 from the axils, 1 J-2 in. long, densely 

 many-flowered. Bracteoles broadly ovate, about J line long. Flowers 

 patent on pedicels of about 1 line. Calyx f— f in. long, puberulous or 

 glabrate, the tube but slightly exceeding the limb. Petals oval or ob- 

 lanceolate narrowed at base, slightly longer than calyx-lobes. Fila- 

 ments glabrous, very shortly unequally coherent at the base. Ovary 

 and gynophore pilose ; ovules 4-5. Legume .... 



Upper Guinea. Biver Camaroons, Mann ! 



This plant so much resembles species of the Indian genus Humboldtia, that in the 

 "Genera Plantarum" it is referred to as an African species of that genus. Excepting in 

 the long narrow calyx-tube and fewer ovules, I do not find any technical character of 

 importance to distinguish it from the other species of Schotia. The minute bracteoles, 

 which persist until flowering, do not enclose the young bud. 



At Kew there are fragments of perhaps a Schotia, in fruit only, from the Batoka 

 highlands. The legumes are 2-valved coriaceous obloug, 2-3 in. long, f-1 in. broad, 

 the valves tawny-tomentose separating forcibly. Leaflets apparently in about 4 pairs, 

 2 in. long, oblong, emarginate. 



