Cynometra.] xlvii. § c^esalpinie^e (oliver). 317 



Leaflets 1-2-jugate, ovate-lanceolate, falcate, acuminate. Flowers 



stipitate beyond the bracteoles 4. C. laxiflora. 



Leaflets 2-jugate, ovate-elliptic, acuminate. Bracteoles at base of 

 calyx-tube ' 5. Q. Afzelii. 



1. C. Vogelii, Hook. f. Fl. Nigrit. 328. A small tree or shrub- 

 like ; extremities leafy, glabrous or finely pubescent at first. Leaflets 

 unijugate, rarely bijugate, sessile, more or less coriaceous, oval oval- 

 oblong or oblanceolate-oval, but slightly oblique, narrowed to the 

 broad obtuse usually emarginate or minutely bifid apex, glabrous or 

 with faint pubescence on the midrib beneath, reticulation not prominent, 

 1J-3J in. long, \-\\ in. broad ; petiole short and thick, I in. or less! 

 Flowers white or rose in very short, often dense and many-flowered 

 pubescent racemes or fascicles. Pedicels £-f in., slender. Bracts 

 scarious, concave, broadly rotundate, 1 line long, deciduous, closely 

 imbricate over the unopened racemes; bracteoles concave or condu- 

 plicate, carinate, before the lengthening out of the pedicel wholly en- 

 closing the bud, their margins valvate on the outer convex surface, 

 imbricate on the inner face, caducous or occasionally remaining till ex- 

 pansion on the lower part of the pedicel. Calyx-lobes 4, 2 considerably 

 narrower. Petals subequal, oval or oblong, acute or apiculate. Sta- 

 mens usually 10. Qvary pilose, more or less stipitate, 1-ovulate. 

 Legume thick, falcate, shortly oblong, rugose or corrugate, f-lj in. 

 long. Var. a. Pedicels about ^ in. long. Var. /3. (Heudelotiana, Planch, 

 mss. in Hb.) pedicels \~ § in. long. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot! Rio Nunez, Whitfield! Niger, T.Vogcl! 

 Ansell, Barter! 



In^one of the Senegambian specimens gathered by Heudelot, many of the leaflets 

 are bijugate, but I do not notice*any other difference. 



2. C. Mannii, Oliv. A tree attaining 50-60 ft. (Mann) ; extre- 

 mities puberulous or thinly pubescent. Leaflets usually 3-jugate, those 

 of the upper pair considerably larger, coriaceous, shining above, sessile, 

 obliquely oblanceolate-oval or -oblong, narrowed above into a distinct 

 often narrow emarginate acumen, glabrous, rachis often pubescent; 

 upper leaflets 1J-3 in., lower -J— 1 in. long. Flowers white, in axillary 

 and subterminal pubescent racemes not exceeding 1 J in. in length. Pe- 

 dicels \-\ in. Bracts broadly rotundate, scarious, 1 -2 lines lon°-, 

 caducous ; bracteoles narrow, oblong, keeled, by no means enveloping 

 the bud before the growth of the pedicels, caducous. Calyx-lobes 4, 

 unequal in breadth. Petals 5, linear-oblong or -oval. Stamens 10 ; 

 connective rather broad when fresh. Ovary pilose, uniovulate. Le- 

 gume obliquely obovoid or ovoid, valves rather thin, rugose, 1^-1 \ in. 

 long. 



Upper Guinea. Ambas bay and Gaboon river, Mann ! Old Calabar, Thomson ! 



Congo, Smith! 



Belonging to the same or a new and allied species is a plant collected in Guinea by 

 Hove, in the British Museum Herbarium, with very dense ferruginous racemes ; the 

 leaflets 3-jugate, those of the upper pair 3g in., of the lower 2} 2 in. long, the disparity 

 between the upper and lower leaflets being less marked than in Mr. Mann's plant. 1 

 have not made an analysis of the flower. 



