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nate leaves possess two caducous lateral stipules. The flowers form 

 terminal racemes; eacli flower is axillary to a coloured caducous 



Tamarindus indica. 



Fig. 74. 

 Flower (\). 



Fig. 75. 

 Diagram. 



Fig. 76. 

 LontntiuliiiHl section of flower. 



bract, and is accompanied by two large lanceolate lateral bractlets 

 placed edge to edge, and at first enveloping the whole flower-bud. 



Vouapa) (figs. 77-S0) comes very near Tamarindus in its androceum, 

 the number of fertile stamens being often reduced to three, accom- 

 panied by a variable number of staminodes. But the reduction of 

 the corolla is yet more marked ; there is only one large petal, the 

 posterior one ; the four others are reduced to little tongues or are 

 even altogether absent ; and moreover the two accompanying lateral 

 bractlets become large, coriaceous, and concave like the bowl of a 

 spoon, touching by their thick edges, and completely enclosing the 

 bud in a sort of sac before expansion. The four imbricated sepals 

 become quite membranous and are often ill-developed. The other 

 characters are extremely variable in the score or so of species forming 



1 Aubl., Guian. (1775), 25, t. 7. — J., Gen., 

 350.— Lamk., Diet., viii. 699; 111, t. 26.— 

 DC, Prodr., ii. 511.— Spach, Suit, a Bvffon, i. 

 120.— Endl,, Gen., n. 6803.— H. Bn., in Adan- 

 sonia, vi. 177 ; ix.fase. 7. — Outea Aubl., op. cit., 

 28, t. 9. — J., loc.cit., 347.— -Lamk., Diet., iii. 

 291 ; Suppl., iv. 2:57 ; III, t. 26.— DC, loc. cit., 

 510. — Spacii, loo. cit., 119. — Macrolobium 

 Sciiueb., Gen., i (17S9), 30, n. 12.— Vaill, 



Eimm., ii. 37. — VoG-., in Linncea, xi. 411. — 

 Endl., Gen., n. 6803.— B. II., Gen., 579, L003, 

 n. 342. — Kruegeria Neck., Elem., iii. (1790), 

 65, n. 1389.— Anthonota V. Beattv., /'/. Ow. ei 

 Ben., i. (1804), 70, t. 42 —DC. !<■<: cit., 510.— 

 Desyx., in Ann. Sc. Nat.,seT. 1, ix. 130.— Endi., 

 Gen., n. 6797. — Scytodium Yog., in Lit 

 \i. til. 



