110 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Schizolobium 1 possesses altogether the flowers of Tachigali, and 

 hence seems properly inseparable from it ; though it has been placed 

 in a different series, Eucasalpiniece, because of its bipinnate leaves. 

 The oblique-mouthed receptacle, the imbricated sepals and petals, 

 the decandrous androceum, the pluriovulate gynseceum inserted on 

 the posterior wall of the receptacle, are the same in both genera. 

 The pod is flattened and bivalve; its dry thin enclocarp, which 

 separates from the exocarp, contains a compressed seed with a 

 coloured embryo surrounded by copious albumen. This genus con- 

 tains one or two species from tropical Africa." The leaves have 

 very numerous small leaflets, and the flowers, which also lack 

 lateral bracelets, form simple axillary or ramified terminal racemes. 

 Schizolobium by its foliage links Amherstiea with Eucasalpiniea, as 

 Tachigali on the other hand links it with Sderolobica? 



V. BAIT HINT A SERIES. 



Bauhinia* (figs. 85, 86) has regular hermaphrodite or polygamous 

 flowers, pentamerous or more rarely tetramerous. In those species 

 of the genus where the flower is most complete and often nearly 

 regular, we find a pentamerous calyx and corolla," to whose pieces 

 the ten free stamens are superposed, all inserted on a more or less 



1 VoG., in Linneea, xi. 399. — E> T DL., Gen., n. clavalo." — [OlJVEB (Fl. Trop. Afr., ii. 294), 

 6760. — B. H., Gen., 569, n. 318. having examined one of Vahl's species, //'. 



2 Tut., in Arch. Mus., iv. 157. — Wali\, grandiflora, writes: — "'I his turns out to be 

 Rep., v. 557. Berlinia acuminata Sot. As J/', parvijtora 



3 Among Amherstiea? has been placed, with must be generically distinct, the right course 

 doubt, the very little known genus Westia (Yaiie, appears to be simply to suppress the genus." — As 

 Skriv. Nat. Selsk., vi. 117), containing two (?) this sheet is passing through the press I learn 

 species from tropical America, which have been that W. parvijlora has been determined by Prof, 

 referred by some authors, though doubtfully, to Baillon to belong to Sapindacea?. — Tr.]. 



the genus Youapa (Endl., Gen., 1427, n. 6797). 4 Bauhinia PlTTM., Nov. Oen., t. 13. — L., 



It is thus characterized by Bentham and Hooker Gen., n. oil. — ADAMS., Fam. Jes PL, ii. 317 — 



{Gen., 583, n. 356) :— " Calycis ? (corolla!, J., (?<?»., 351. — Lamk., Diet., i. 388j Suppl., i. 



Vahl) tubus discifer elongatus ; segmenta (4?) 598; III., t. 329. — K., in Ann. Sc. Nat., si'r. 



spathulata, imbricata (Pttala 0?). Stamina 1, i. 84. — DC, Prodr., ii. 512. — SPACH, Suit, (i 



10, libera. Ovarium stipitatum oo -ovvlalum. Buffon, i. 123. — E>"DL., Gen., n. 6790. — B. H., 



Legumen stipitatum, e stipite erecto horizon tali Gen., bib, n. 333 (inch : Casparia K., Amaria 



compressum coriacewm, suturis incrassatis. — Mt/T., Schnella Kadd., Caulotretus Rl< n., 



Arbor. Folia imparipinnata ; foliolis paucijugis Lacara STREKG.,Perlel/<i Mai:t.. I', ml, tin Cay., 



coriaceis. Flores majusculi racemosi ; racemis Phanera Lot'R., Pileosligma HoCHST., Lasio- 



in paniculum terminalem dispositis. Braclea bemaNzQ.). — Canschenapou Rheed. (ex Ada>s.). 



ovata. Bracteolm (calyx diphyllus, Vahl) * There are often tetramerous flowers even on 



amplce, ante anthesin flores includentes, alabastro the plants bearing the pentamerous ones. 



