LEGUMINOSH-PAPILIONACE. 363 
apex. Stamens 10, free; anthers oblong uniform. Germen stipitate ; 
ovule 1, descending; style short incurved ; stigma introrse lateral. 
Legume. . . .?—Tall trees; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; leaf- 
lets coriaceous exstipellate ; stipules....?; flowers in much branched 
terminal racemes; bracts and bractlets small caducous' (North 
Brazil’). 
276. Baphia Arzeu.'—Receptacle very short; disk thin nearly 
absent, or produced into a short ring round gyneceum. Calyx gamo- 
sepalous subglobose or ovoid, valvate, very shortly 5-toothed at apex ; 
finally splitting into 5 subequal strips, more frequently unequally 2- 
cleft on anthesis (Bracteolaria‘) or spathaceous (Delairia'’). Petals 
subsessile ; standard orbicular or broadly elliptical ; wings oblique; 
keel slightly incurved obtuse. Stamens 10, subhypogynous or 
slightly perigynous; filaments free; anthers uniform. Germen 
subsessile ; ovules o, more frequently few ; style incurved subulate ; 
apex minute stigmatiferous; legume linear, lanceolate or falcate, 
acute at both ends, plano-compressed coriaceous, continuous within 
or slightly stuffed, 2-valved. Seeds few, suborbicular or ovate ; 
embryo fleshy ; radicle incurved.—Trees or shrubs; leaves alternate 
1-foliolate; stipules small; flowers® solitary or fascicled axillary, or 
in short terminal, rarely branched, racemes ; bracts small caducous ; 
bractlets large deciduous, or short inserted on top of pedicel and 
persisting below flower (Zropical Africa’). 
277. Leucomphalus Bzntu.*—Flowers nearly of Baphia; calyx 
subglobose, cleft on anthesis. Stamens 10, free ; anthers linear longer 
than filaments. Germen long stipitate; ovules few. Legume long- 
stipitate, falcate-ovate coriaceous rather turgid, continuous within, 
2-valved. Seeds 1, 2, oblong; hilum lateral, enlarged into a thick 
fungoid aril—A shrub; leaves 1-foliolate; flowers’ in terminal 
1 The habit is of Dipterya, to which this genus 
comes really very near, differing in its free 
stamens and its united 2 superior calyx-lobes. 
2 Species 2. BENTH., loc. cit. 
3 In Lodd. Bot. Cab., iv. t. 367.—DC., 
Prodr., ii. 424.— EnDL., Gen., n. 6812.—B. H., 
Gen., 553, u. 263.—H. By., in Adansonia, vi. 
212. 
4 Hocust., in Flora (1841), ii. 638. 
5 Dusvx., in Ann. Se. Nat., sér. 1, ix. 406.— 
Carpolobia Don (G.), Gen. Syst., 1.370 (part.).— 
Ewopu., Gen., u. 5655. 
§ White or yellow. 
7 Species about 8. Hoox., Niger, 320.— 
Harv., hes. Cap., t. 20.—H. By., in Adan- 
sonia, loc. cit., 213, 214—Baxrr, in Oliv. #1. 
Trop. Afr., ii. 247.—Watp., Rep., v. 565 ; 
Ann., ii. 308, 
8 Niger, 322, t. 31—B. H., Gen., 553, nu. 264. 
9 White. 
