LEGUMINOSA-CASALPINIEZ. 143 
longitudinal dehiscence, whose connective is often surmounted by a 
mossy glandular point. The gynzceum is inserted by a long slender 
foot in the bottom of the receptucle. Its ovary’ contains an inde- 
finite number of ovules, and is surmounted by a short style, with an 
undilated stigmatiferous apex. The fruit is an oblong flattened 
coriaceous or woody bivalve pod. The seeds, surrounded by a 
variable thickness of pulp, contain within their coats’ a fleshy 
Brandzeia filicifolia. 
Fig. 185. 
Habit (3). 
embryo surrounded by thick, fleshy or subcorneous albumen. This 
genus consists of unarmed trees from tropical Africa’ and 
? Often covered with very long woolly hairs becomes much thicker in contact with water (see 
(figs.-183, 184). Adansonia, vi. 204), 
* The middle coat is very hard; it is sur- 3 The old specics, named Fillea suaveolens 
rounded by a soft layer, which swells up and by the authors of the Flore Senegambie Tenta- 
