110 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
Schizolobium’ possesses altogether the flowers of Zachigalt, and 
hence seems properly inseparable from it; though it has been placed 
in a different series, Eucesalpiniee, because of its bipinnate leaves. 
The oblique-mouthed receptacle, the imbricated sepals and petals, 
the decandrous androceum, the pluriovulate gyneceum inserted on 
the posterior wall of the receptacle, are the same in both genera. 
The pod is flattened and bivalve; its dry thin endocarp, which 
separates from the exocarp, contains a compressed seed with a 
coloured embryo surrounded by copious albumen. This genus con- 
tains one or two species from tropical Africa.’ The leaves have 
very numerous small leaflets, and the flowers, which also lack 
lateral bractlets, form simple axillary or ramified terminal racemes. 
Schizolobium by its foliage links Amherstiee with Hucesaipiniee, as 
Tachigali on the other hand links it with Sclerolobiee.® 
V. BAUHINIA SERIES. 
Bauhinia’ (figs. 85, 86) has regular hermaphrodite or polygamous 
flowers, pentamerous or more rarely tetramerous. In those species 
of the genus where the flower is most complete and often nearly 
regular, we find a pentamerous calyx and corolla,’ to whose pieces 
the ten free stamens are superposed, all inserted on a more or less 
1 Voa., in Linnea, xi. 399.—ENDL., Gen., n. 
6760.—B. H., Gen., 569, n. 318. 
2 Tun. in Arch. Mus., iv. 157.— Watp., 
Rep., v. 557. 
3 Among Amherstiee has been placed, with 
doubt, the very little known genus Westia (VAHL, 
Shriv. Nat. Selsk., vi. 117), containing two (?) 
species from tropical America, which have been 
referred by some authors, though doubtfully, to 
the genus Vouapa (ENDL., Gen., 1427, n. 6797). 
It is thus characterized by BENTHAM and HooKER 
(Gen. 583, n. 356) :—‘ Calycis? (corolla, 
Van) tubus discifer elongatus ; segmenta (4 ?) 
spathulata, imbricata (Petala O?). Stamina 
10, Libera. Ovariwm stipitatum ow -ovulatwm. 
Legumen stipitatum, e stipite erecto horizontali 
compr cori suturis incrassatis,— 
Arbor. Folia imparipinnata ; foliolis paucijugis 
coriaceis, Flores maj i is 7 is 
in paniculum terminalem dispositis. Bractee 
ovate. Bracteole (calyx diphyllus, Vaut) 
ample, ante anthesin flores ineludentes, alabastro 
ie? 
clavato”’—[Oniver (Fl. Trop. Afr., ii. 294), 
having examined one of Vaxt’s species, W. 
grandiflora, writes:—“ This turns out to be 
Berlinia acuminata Sou. As W. parviflora 
must be generically distinct, the right course 
appears to be simply to suppress the genus.”—As 
this sheet is passing through the press I learn 
that W. parviflora has been determined by Prof. 
Battton to belong to Sapindacee.—Tx.]. 
4 Bauhinia Prum., Nov. Gen., t. 13.—L., 
Gen., n. 511.—Apans., Fam. des Pl., ii. 317.— 
J., Gen., 351.—Lamx., Dict., i. 388; Suppl, i. 
598; Iil., t. 329.—K., in Ann. Se. Nat., sér. 
1, i. 84.—DC., Prodr., ii. 512.—Spacu, Suit. & 
Buffon, i. 123.—Envu., Gen., n. 6790,—B. H., 
Gen., 575, n. 383 (incl.: Casparia K., Amaria 
Murt., Schnella Rapp., Caulotretus Ricu., 
Lacara Srrena., Perlebia Mart., Pauletia Cav., 
Phanera Lovr., Pileostigma Hocust., Lasio- 
bema M1Q.).— Canschenapou RWEED. (ex ADANS.). 
5 There are often tetramerous flowers even on 
the plants bearing the pentamerous ones. 
