182 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
2-valved. Seeds oo, transverse; albumen fleshy ; embryo greenish 
cotyledons cordate at base; radicle short straight.—Unarmed trees ; 
leaves alternate imparipinnate; stipules short, very caducous; in- 
florescence of Martia (Oceania). See p. 125. 
54, Baudouinia H. By.—Flowers of Storchiella ; sepals and petals 
5, hypogynous imbricated, stamens 10, hypogynous free, all fertile ; 
anthers basifixed, penicillate at apex, anther-cells 2, dehiscing longi- 
tudinally ; posterior stamens slightly shorter. Germen central 
free, shortly stipitate, 3-4-ovulate ; style subulate, apex minute 
stigmatiferous. Fruit fleshy, obliquely stipitate, cylindrical, 
obliquely or subtransversely septate between seed. Seeds... .? 
Small trees; leaves alternate simple; stipules very short and 
caducous; flowers in axillary pedunculate, few- or rarely 1-flowered, 
spurious racemes (Zropical Africa and western adjoining islands). 
See p. 126. 
55. Duparquetia H. Bn.—Perianth hypogynous. Sepals 4, 
large unequal; lowest sepal outermost coriaceous; highest sub- 
‘petaloid: 2 lateral innermost petaloid, unequally 2-lobed, very 
unsymmetrical. Petals 5, very disparate, imbricated vexillary in 
estivation ; 3 higher petals membranous ovate-lanceolate ; highest 
outermost; 2 lower minute scale-like, furnished with unequal 
glandular cilia. Stamens 4, 5, hypogynous 3- adelphous; 2 lateral 
free; 2, 3, superior connate ; filaments short flat; anthers basifixed 
elongated 2-celled introrse; locelli free acuminate at apex, furrowed 
longitudinally, rimose within and above. Germen shortly stipitate, 
central, longitudinally 4-winged, 2-ovulate; style subulate; apex 
minute stigmatiferous. Legume elongated 4-winged . .. .?—An 
unarmed shrub ; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; leaflets large petiolu- 
late ; stipules lateral ovate; flowers in dense terminal racemes ; 
bracts and bractlets scale-like caducous (Western tropical Africa). 
See p. 126. 
56. Moldenhauera Scurap.—Flowers 4, 5-merous; receptacle 
shortly conical. Sepals hypogynous valvate. Petals unguiculate 
subfimbriate, corrugated-imbricate. Stamens 8 or 10, hypogynous 
free; 7 or 9 posterior short straight; anthers erect subbasifixed 
2-celled introrse, 2-rimose to a greater or less extent from apex to 
