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apex. Stamens 10, free; anthers oblong uniform. Germen stipitate ; 

 ovule 1, descending; style short incurved; stigma introrse lateral. 

 Legume .... ? — Tall trees ; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; leaf- 

 lets coriaceous exstipellate ; stipules ....?; flowers in much branched 

 terminal racemes ; bracts and bractlets small caducous 1 {North 

 Brazil' 2 ). 



276. Baphia Afzel. 3 — Eeceptacle very short; disk thin nearly 

 absent, or produced into a short ring round gymeceum. Calyx gamo- 

 sepalous subglobose or ovoid, valvate, very shortly 5-toothed at apex ; 

 finally splitting into 5 subequal strips, more frequently unequally 2- 

 cleft on anthesis (Bracfeolaria 4 ) or spathaceous (Delairicf). Petals 

 subsessile ; standard orbicular or broadly elliptical ; wings oblique ; 

 keel slightly incurved obtuse. Stamens 10, subhypogynous or 

 slightly perigynous ; filaments free; anthers uniform. Germen 

 subsessile ; ovules co, more frequently few ; style incurved subulate; 

 apex minute stigmatiferous; legume linear, lanceolate or falcate, 

 acute at both ends, piano-compressed coriaceous, continuous within 

 or slightly stuffed, 2-valved. Seeds few, suborbicular or ovate ; 

 embryo fleshy ; radicle incurved. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate 

 1-foliolate; stipules small ; flowers 6 solitary or fascicled axillary, or 

 in short terminal, rarely branched, racemes ; bracts small caducous ; 

 bractlets large deciduous, or short inserted on top of pedicel and 

 persisting below flower {Tropical Africa 1 ). 



277. Leucomphalus Benth. 8 — Flowers nearly of Baphia ; calyx 

 subglobose, cleft on anthesis. Stamens 10, free; anthers linear longer 

 than filaments. Germen long stipitate ; ovules few. Legume long- 

 stipitate, falcate-ovate coriaceous rather turgid, continuous within, 

 2-valved. Seeds 1, 2, oblong; hilum lateral, enlarged into a thick 

 fungoid aril. — A shrub; leaves 1-foliolate; flowers 9 in terminal 



1 The habit is of Dipteryx, to which this genus Carpolobia Don (G.), Gen. Syst., i. 370 (part.). — 

 conies really very near, differing in its free Endl., Gen., n. 5655. 



stamens and its united 2 superior calyx-lobes. 6 White or yellow. 



2 Species 2. Benth., loc. cit. 7 Species about 8. Hook., Niger, 320. — 



3 In Lodd. Bot. Cab., iv. t. 367.— DC, Harv., Thes. Cap., t. 20.— H. Bn., in Adan- 

 Prodr., ii. 424. — Endl., Gen., n. 6812.— B. H., soma, loc. cit., 213, 214. — Bakkr, in 01, v. i'l. 

 Gen., 553, n. 263. — H. Bn., in Adansonia, vi. Trap. AJ'r., ii. 247. — Walp., Rep., v. 665 ; 

 212. Ann., ii. 308. 



4 Hochst., in Flora (1811), ii. 638. 8 Niger, 322, t. 31.— B. H., Gen., 553, n. 261. 

 6 Desyx., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 1, ix. 406. — '' White. 



