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subequal imbricated. Petals 5; highest petal largest unguiculate, 
very complex cucullate in estivation, usually outermost; 4 anterior 
smaller, or very smal] scale-like, or more rarely 0. Germen stipitate, 
more or less excentric, 2— -ovulate; style slender; apex truncate 
or capitate stigmatiferous. Legume obliquely-orbiculate ovate 
oblong or falcate, plano-compressed 2-valved ; placental suture some- 
times thickened or dilated. Seeds 1 or few, orbiculate compressed ; 
embryo exalbuminous; cotyledons thick; radicle straight included. 
—Unarmed trees; leaves pari- or more rarely imparipinnate ; 
leaflets 1, or pauci-, more rarely multijugate; stipules leaf-like or 
-small caducous, more rarely 0; flowers in simple or branched, ter- 
minal or axillary racemes; bracts caducous; bractlets 2, rather thick 
or coriaceous, inclosing bud as 2 valves, finally spreading (Zropical 
America and Africa). See p. 101. 
37. Berlinia Sotanp.—Flowers large (of Vouapa); sepals 5, thin 
imbricated; highest petal largest; 4 anterior, a little smaller or 
oftener rudimentary or 0. Stamens 10, or more rarely 5 alterni- 
petalous, fertile; filaments free or connate close to base; anthers 
uniform introrse. Germen very excentric, stipitate, mserted high 
below androceum, o-ovulate, style slender ; apex truncate or capitate, 
stigmatiferous. Fruit . . .?—Unarmed trees; leaves paripinnate ; 
leaflets coriaceous; stipules small caducous, or more rarely broad 
leaf-like ; flowers in simple, or oftener compound, much-branched 
terminal racemes; bracts coriaceous caducous; bractlets broadly 
concave thick spathulate, inclosing bud as valves, finally spreading 
or deciduous (Western Tropical Africa). See p. 104. 
38. Daniella Brnn.—Flowers subregular; receptacle narrowly 
turbinate, lined by a disk. Sepals 4, slightly unequal, coloured 
imbricated. Petals 5; highest small or rather large; 4 anterior 
usually rudimentary or 0; 2 lateral rarely rather large, imbricated. 
Stamens 10, free (of Berlinia). Germen excentric stipitate cc-ovulate ; 
style terminal; apex capitate stigmatiferous. Legume stipitate 
obliquely ovate-oblong, subfalcate plano-compressed coriaceous 
2-valved; endocarp separating elastically. Seed usually 1, com- 
pressed ; embryo exalbuminous; radicle short straight—Unarmed 
trees ; leaves paripinnate; leaflets coriaceous ; stipules lateral 
caducous; flowers in compound much-branched racemes at extre- 
