126 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
alternate imparipinnate leaves have coriaceous leaflets and little 
caducous stipules.' The flowers form compound ramified racemes at 
the ends of the branches; the accompanying bracts and articulated 
bractlets fall off early. 
The flower of Baudouinia* has ten stamens* just as in Storckiella 
vitiensis ; but they are hypogynous as in Martia, and somewhat 
unequal in length. The gynzceum is shortly stipitate like that of 
Storchiella, and its ovary contains three or four descending ovules 
separated by oblique false dissepiments, and the fleshy stipitate fruit 
is divided into as many one-seeded chambers. The two known 
species, natives of the islands to the east of South Africa, have not 
altogether the general habit and foliage of Leguminose. They are 
small trees possessing shortly-petiolate simple entire leaves, and with 
two little lateral caducous stipules. The flowers are axillary, in few- 
flowered false racemes. 
Duparquetia, though with a convex receptacle and hypogynous 
perianth, comes equally near Cassia and Storckiella. But its 
corolla presents an anomaly which is rare in Cesalpiniee ; its preeflora- 
tion is vexillary. The five petals are very unequal and dissimilar ;° 
around these are four sepals of which the two lateral, irregular and dis- 
similar,’ are overlapped by the posterior, while this is again overlapped 
by the anterior which is largest of all. The androceum consists of 
a variable number of hypogynous triadelphous stamens; there are 
often four, two lateral isolated, and two posterior united into one 
bundle ; orthis bundle may consist of three stamens. All have flattened 
filaments, and introrse anthers dehiscing by two longitudinal clefts.* 
Each cleft corresponds to a deep groove, which appears to divide the 
cell completely into two locelli; and each cell ends above in a long 
‘point.’ The superior shortly stipitate ovary contains two superposed 
1 The leaf-buds axillary to the leaves are 
often very big and globular. 
2H. By., in Adansonia, vi. 193, t. 53 viii. 
301.—B. H., Gen., 1003, n. 326 a. 
3 More rarely only eight or nine. Each has 
an obconical or obpyramidal filament, tapering 
slowly though considerably towards the base, with 
w basifixed introrse two-celled anther, tapering 
and penicillate at the apex, and dehiscing by 
two longitudinal clefts, which extend down- 
wards by degrees. 
4 Becoming shorter as they are more pos- 
terior. 
5 H. By., in Adansonia, vi. 189.—Oligo- 
stemon BENTH., Gen., 570, 1002, u. 322; in 
Trans. Linn. Soc., xxv. 305, t. 39 (post.). 
§ Especially the two anterior, which are very 
small, with glandular-ciliate edges. We for- 
merly considered them staminodes. 
7 On the anterior edge is a sort of irregular 
wing or auricle. We formerly described them 
as external pieces of the corolla. 
8 These clefts only extend about half-way 
down the anther. 
® For these reasons each cell may be taken for 
a distinct anther, as we formerly described it. 
