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erect-patent, unequally accrescent, rigid ; one larger wing-shaped. 

 Seed usually 1, ascending; embryo fleshy ; cotyledons thick sub- 

 equal ; radicle short inferior. — A pyramidal tree ; leaves alternate, 

 entire, elongate, usually undulate, thickly parallel penninerved, 

 scarcely reticulated ; stipules small caducous ; flowers in more or 

 less ramified compound racemes, terminal and axillary {Trop. Western 

 Africa). See p. 21 5. 



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