XLIII. LEGUMINOa®. 
[Bauhinia . 
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of the petals, the sterile stamens very short ; fertile anther narrow-oblong, about 
Jin. long, dark above, bilobed at the base. Style glabrous ; ovary shortly hairy. 
— B. Pcrsiehii, F. v. M., Wing’s South Sci. Rec. i. new series, Feb. 1885; B. 
monandra, Kurz, Census of Austr. PI. 1889. 
Hab.: Endeavour River. 
Perhaps both B. acuminata and B. monandra may be only escapes from cultivation, for in the 
large number of plant specimens received by me from northern Queensland I have never received 
any portions of these two plants. 
85. AFZELIA, Sm. 
(After Dr. Adam Afzelius, a Swedish botanist.) 
Calyx-tube narrowly infundibuliform or cylindrical, limb 4-partite, segments 
entire, subequal or inner pair slightly longer, imbricate. Vexillum exceeding 
(sometimes many times) the calyx, clawed, lamina bilobate or subentire ; lateral 
and anterior petals minute or squamiform or none. Perfect stamens 7, filaments 
elongate, very shortly coherent at the base ; anthers versatile, oblong, dehiscing 
longitudinally, staminodia 2, subulate or filiform, one at each side of the 
vexillum ; posterior stamen wanting. Ovary shortly stipitate, narrowed above 
into the slender style ; ovules 8 to 10 or more. Legume oblong, elliptic, or 
obovate-oblong, 2-valved, several-seeded ; valves thick, woody, smooth or nearly 
so externally, with transverse cellular or spongy septa internally separating the 
seeds. Seeds (in well-ascertained species) large, oblong or ellipsoidal, smooth, 
black, with a large, cupuliform, closely investing scarlet or yellow arillus invest- 
ing the lower third. Unarmed trees. Leaves abruptly pinnate. Flowers in 
terminal simple or pannicled racemes. Bracteoles inserted on the pedicel at the 
base of the calyx-tube, shorter than the bud, caducous or falling by the time of 
expansion. — Oliver in FI. Trop. Afr ii. 301. 
A genus of about 10 or 12 species confined to the tropics of the Old World. 
1. A. australis (Australian), Bail. Johnstone River Teak. A lofty 
tree, attaining a height of over 100ft. , with an erect trunk over 2ft. in diameter; 
bark covered by rather large lenticellte, and the bark of the trunk exfoliating 
by hard thick oval or oblong patches, similar to some Flindersias and the Red 
Cedar ; wood very hard and durable, of a reddish-brown. Leaves alternate, 
glabrous, of 2 or 3 pairs of very obtuse nearly orbicular leaflets from 3 to 5in. 
long and nearly as broad, very unequal-sided at the base, on petiolules of about 
Jin., the divergent almost parallel veins joining far within the margin, and 
forming an intramarginal one, the netted veinlets numerous and somewhat 
prominent. Flowers pubescent. Calyx-tube ribbed, about Jin. long ; lobes very 
unequal and much imbricate, slightly longer than the tube. Petal orbicular, 
undulate, veined, on a claw about as long as the calyx-lobes. Stamens hairy. 
Ovary stipitate, flat, the edges tomentose. Pod oblong, 6 to 7in. long and over 
2in. broad, glabrous, coriaceous, with transverse veins. Seeds dark-brown, 3 or 4, 
very flat, more or less covered by a mealy substance, oblong or orbicular, about 
ljin. diameter, the short thick funicle expanding into an oblong appressed aril. 
Hab.: Johnstone River, Dr. Thor. L. Bancroft. 
At Baron von Mueller’s request I sent him specimens of A. australis, and that gentleman, 
after comparing them with the specimens he had some time previously received from Queens- 
land and determined to be identical with A. bijuga, A. Gray — and therefore mentioned this tree 
as occurring in Queensland in his Census of Austr. Plants — sends me word that both his and my 
specimens are the same species, and that he still considers the Australian tree A. bijuga, an 
opinion in which I cannot concur, for, besides other distinctions, the bark is very distinct in the 
