144 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
Australia.’ The leaves are alternate, bipinnate, with few, rather broad, 
coriaceous leaflets. The flowers are grouped in terminal ramified 
racemes; the pedicels, articulate at the base, are each axillary to a 
caducous bract. 
At the end of this series we place Brandzeia filicifoliad® (figs. 1385— 
137), whose affinities with Mimosee and Eucesalpinice’ are incontest- 
able, and which has, with the regular flowers of the preceding 
genera, a receptacle yet more concave’ than in Hrythrophleum, and a 
Brandzeia filicifolia. 
Fre. 137. 
Longitudinal section of flower. 
Fie. 136. 
Flower (3). 
more broadly imbricated calyx. The sepals are four’ or five in 
number; and the petals’ which are also imbricated, taper below 
into long claws. The ten stamens, all fertile, are superposed to the 
leaves of the perianth. Each consists of a free involute filament 
finally exserted, and an introrse two-celled anther with a glandular 
connective. The central gynzeceum consists of a stipitate pluriovulate 
ovary,’ surmounted by a style whose stigmatiferous apex is slightly 
dilated. The pod is of variable size, often oblong compressed, covered 
with rusty-coloured velvety down; bordered with somewhat pro- 
minent sutures, rarely flat, but more often irregularly knobbed on 
ing mainly in the greater regularity of its corolla 
men, is E. guineense Don. We find it undis- 
aud in its non-declinate filaments, nude at the 
tinguishable from Mavia judicialis BERTOL. Bs 
a plant from the east coast, of which we have 
only an imperfect specimen before us [see also 
Outv., Fl. Trop. Afr., ii. 320]. 
1 E. chlorostachys—E. Labouchert BENTH., 
Fl. Austral., ii. 297.— Laboucheria chloro- 
stachys ¥. MUELL., loe. cit., 159. 
2 H, By., in Adansonia, ix. 215, t. vi. 
3 It might strictly have been placed in this 
series, for it comes very near Cesalpinia, differ- 
base. 
4 With a lining of glandular tissue, whose 
margin is divided into ten little crenulations. 
5 In this case there is one larger than the 
rest, and evidently representing two leaves. 
§ Whose number may also be reduced to four. 
7 There are usually from ten to twelve 
obliquely descending ovules in two vertical 
rows. 
