LEGUMTN0SM-a2ESALVINIEjE. 



133 



ill-developed caducous stipules. The flowers form solitary or mul- 

 tiple short racemes on the wood of the old branches ; they are 

 accompanied by scaly caducous bracts and bractlets. 



VII. COPAIVA SERIES. 

 The Copaiva-trees' (Fr., Copdiers ; figs. 123-128), have regular 



Copaifera officinalis. 



Fig. 123. 

 Habit (|). 



hermaphrodite flowers. The little receptacle, convex or slightly 



1 Copaifera L., Gen., n. 512. — J., Gen., 365. — Endl., Gen., n. 6806. — II. Btf., in Adansonia, 



—Lame., Diet., ii/97 ; III., t. 342.— Desf., in vi. 202.— B. II., Gen., 585, L003, n. 362.— 



Mem. Mus., vii. 375, t. 13, 14. — II. 15. K., Copaiba Mabcg., Brasil., 130. — Adans., Fam. 



Nov. Gen. el Spec, vi. 265, t. 659. — DC, des PI., ii. 341. — Copiiba V\<„ Brasil., 56 



Prodr., ii. 508. — Spach, Suit, a Buffon, i. 110. (incl. Guibowrtia Benn., Gorskia Boi i i ). 



