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nate leaves possess two caducous lateral stipules. The flowers form 
terminal racemes; each flower is axillary to a coloured caducous 
Tamarindus indica. 
Fie. 75. 
Diagram. 
Fia. 76. 
Longitudinal section of flower. 
Flower (2). 
bract, and is accompanied by two large lanceolate lateral bractlets 
placed edge to edge, and at first enveloping the whole flower-bud. 
Vouapa (figs. 77-30) comes very near Zamarindus in its androceum, 
the number of fertile stamens being often reduced to three, accom- 
panied by a variable number of staminodes. But the reduction of 
the corolla is yet more marked ; there is only one large petal, the 
posterior one; the four others are reduced to little tongues or are 
even altogether absent ; and moreover the two accompanying lateral 
bractlets become large, coriaceous, and concave like the bowl of a 
spoon, touching by their thick edges, and completely enclosing the 
bud in a sort of sac before expansion. The four imbricated sepals 
become quite membranous and are often ill-developed. The other 
characters are extremely variable in the score or so of species forming 
1 AvBL., Guian. (1775), 25, t. 7.—J., Gen, 
350.—Lamx., Dict., viii. 699; IIL, t. 26.— 
Emum., ii. 87.—Voa., in Linnea, xi. 411.— 
Enpu., Gen., n. 6803.—B. H., Gen., 579, 1003, 
DC., Prodr., ii. 511.—Spacu, Suit. d Buffon, i. 
120.—ENDL., Gen., n. 6803.—H. By., in Adan- 
sonia, vi. 177 ; ix. fasc.'7.— Outea AUBL., op. cit., 
28, t. 9—J., loc. cit., 347.—LaMx., Dict., iii. 
291; Suppl., iv. 237; IU, t. 26.—DC., loc. cit., 
510.—Spacn, loc. cit., 119.— Macrolobium 
Scunes., Gen., i, (1789), 30, n. 12.—VagL, 
n, 342.—Kruegeria Nucx., Elem., iii. (1790), 
65, n. 13889.— Anthonota P. Bravv., Fl. Ow. et 
Ben., i. (1804), 70, t. 42 —DC., loe. cit., 510.— 
Desvx., in Ann, Se. Nat., sér. 1, ix. 480,—EnDL., 
Gen, n. 6797.—Scytodiwm Voe., in Linnea, 
xi. 411, 
