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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



two-lobed, more rarely bifoliolate with the petiole prolonged into a 

 point between the two symmetrical leaflets ; the lateral stipules 

 vary in form, and are often small and caducous. The flowers are 

 racemes, simple and axillary or terminal, or ramified and terminal. 



Griffonia} comes very near Baukinia, from which it is distinguished 

 by its subcampanulate imbricated calyx, inserted on top of the tubular 

 receptacle. The five petals are nearly equal, and are also imbricate. 

 The ten stamens, inserted in the throat of the receptacle, are free and 

 fertile, with versatile introrse two-celled anthers. The gynseceum, 

 too, is inserted on the edge of the receptacular tube on the side 

 oppcsite to the vexillary petal. The ovary, borne on a long foot, 

 coutains an indefinite number of ovules, whose placenta is on the 

 side next the receptacular cavity ; it is surmounted by a short style, 

 tapering at the apex. The fruit is a stipitate obliquely oblong 

 turgid bivalve few-seeded pod. Griffonia consists of two or three 

 species of climbing shrubs from the west of tropical Africa,* with 

 alternate simple coriaceous leaves, and flowers in simple or compound 

 racemes, terminal, axillary, or more or less supra-axillary. 



Cercis Siliquastrwn. 



FlG - 8 7- Fig. 88. 



Inflorescence. Longitudinal section of flower (f). 



The flowers of the Judas Tree (Cercis? Fr., Gainier; figs. 87-91) 



151. — Lixdl., Litrod. to Bot., 78, fig. 35. 



A. Rich., Mem., ed. 9, i. 85. — Dttch., Elem., 

 166, fig. 77— Netto (L.), in Ann. Sc. Nat'., 

 ser. 4, xx. 177 ; in Compt. Rend. Acad. Sc 

 14 Mai, 1S66. 



1 H. B>\, in Adansonia, vi. 188, t. 2 (nee 



B. H.). — Bandeireea Wblw., ex B. H., Gen. 

 577, 1003, n. 335.— Oliv., Fl. Trop. Afr., ii' 

 284. 



s H. B>\, loc. cit., 229.— Bento., in Trans. 

 n. Soc, xxv. 30, t. 40. Despite the date 

 printed on these Transactions the p:ipcr \v;is 

 published considerably before Bentham & 

 Hookee's Genera, in which the generic name 

 Bandeireea figures for the first time. Hence the 

 priority belongs altogether to the name Grif- 

 fonia. 



3 Cercis L., Gen. n. 510.— J., Gen., 351.— 



