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alternate imparipinnate leaves have coriaceous leaflets and little 

 caducous stipules. 1 The flowers form compound ramified racemes at 

 the ends of the branches ; the accompanying bracts and articulated 

 bractlets fall off early. 



The flower of Baudouinia* has ten stamens 3 just as in Storckiella 

 vitiensis ; but they are hypogynous as in Martia, and somewhat 

 unequal in length. 4 The gynseceum is shortly stipitate like that of 

 Storckiella, and its ovary contains three or four descending ovules 

 separated by oblique false dissepiments, and the fleshy stipitate fruit 

 is divided into as many one-seeded chambers. The two known 

 species, natives of the islands to the east of South Africa, have not 

 altogether the general habit and foliage of Leyiiminosa. They are 

 small trees possessing shortly-petiolate simple entire leaves, and with 

 two little lateral caducous stipules. The flowers are axillary, in few- 

 flowered false racemes. 



Ditparquetia, 6 though with a convex receptacle and hypogynous 

 perianth, comes equally near Cassia and St orchidia. But its 

 corolla presents an anomaly which is rare in Casalpiniea ; its pignora- 

 tion is vexillary. The five petals are very unequal and dissimilar ; 6 

 around these are four sepals of which the two lateral, irregular and dis- 

 similar, 7 are overlapped by the posterior, while this is again overlapped 

 by the anterior which is largest of all. The androceum consists of 

 a variable number of hypogynous triadelphous stamens ; there are 

 often four, two lateral isolated, and two posterior united into one 

 bundle ; orthis bundle may consist of three stamens. All have flattened 

 filaments, and introrse anthers dehiscing by two longitudinal clefts. 8 

 Each cleft corresponds to a deep groove, which appears to divide the 

 cell completely into two locelli ; and each cell ends above in a long 

 point. 9 The superior shortly stipitate ovary contains two superposed 



1 The leaf-buds axillary to the leaves are s H. Bh., in Adansonia, vi. 189. — Olh/o- 

 often very big and globular. stemon Dentil, Gen., 570, 1002, n. 'ill; in 



2 H. Bn., in Adansonia, vi. 193, t. 5 ; viii. Trans. Linn. Soc, xxv. 305, t. 39 (post.). 



301. — B. H., Gen., 1003, n. 326 a. 6 Especially the two anterior, which are very 



3 More rarely only eight or nine. Each has small, with glandular-ciliate edges. We for- 

 an obconical or obpyramidal filament, tapering merly considered them staminodes. 



slowly though considerably towards the base, with ' On the anterior edge is a sort of irregular 



a basifixed introrse two-celled anther, tapering wing or auricle. We formerly described them 



and penicillate at the apex, and dehiscing by as external pieces of the corolla, 



two longitudinal clefts, which extend down- 8 These clefts only extend about half-way 



wards by degrees. down the anther. 



4 Becoming shorter as they are more pos- 9 For these reasons each cell may be taken for 

 terior. a distinct anther, as we formerly described it. 



