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" The Outea bijuga, DC. is certainly closely allied to the African 

 Afzelia, Anthonota, Intsia, and Berlinia, and also to the American 

 Eperua, Parivoa, Outea, and Vouapa: but if these are kept distinct, 

 Outea is certainly the one of them all it is farthest from in habit 

 and in the pod. I am not acquainted with the Intsia Madagasca- 

 riensis; but the I Amboinensis is probably a congener of, if not the 

 same species as Outea bijuga, and I think, as far as we know both 

 Intsia and Outea bijuga, cannot well be generically separated from 

 Afzelia. Intsia Madagascar iensis is said to have unequally pinnate 

 leaves; but the allied genera Eperua and Parivoa appear to have 

 them both abruptly and unequally pinnate on the same plant." Ben- 

 tham, in litt. 



Plate 51. — Afzelia bijuga : a branch, with fruit and flower-buds, 

 of the natural size. Fig. 1. A flower-bud, with its pedicel and bract- 

 lets. 2. Diagram of the flower. 3. An opened flower-bud. 4. 

 Petals, from the same. 5,6. Fertile stamens. 7. Pistil. 8. Same, 

 with the ovary divided longitudinally. — All these details magnified. 

 9. A legume, of the natural size, with one valve removed. 10. A 

 seed divided. 



99. B A U H I N I A, Linn,, Benth. 



1. Bauhinia Brasiliensis, Yogel. 



Bauhinia Brasiliensis, Yogel, in Linnaea, 13, p. 302. 



Hab. Brazil; common in the Organ Mountains, and near Rio 

 Janeiro. 



2. Bauhinia grandiflora, Juss. 



Bauhinia grandiflora, Juss. in Poir. Diet. Suppl. 1, p. 600; DC. Prodr. 2, p. 513. 



Hab. Peru, in the vicinity of Lima. " The tree perhaps not there 

 indigenous." 



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