Receptacle not swelling on one side; carpel central. Stamens numerous.
Fruit with an irregularly 5-angled stone. Flowers in panicles.—Species
3. Central Africa. They yield tanning and dyeing materials, oil, medicaments, and edible fruits (cocoa-plums).  Chrysobalanus L.

29. Filaments united in a long strap. Anthers 10-20. Ovary completely
1-celled.—Species 17. Central Africa. Some species yield timber
(Griffonia Hook. fil.)  Acioa Aubl.

Filaments free or united at the base only.  30

30. Receptacle prolonged above into a scale-like appendage. Stamens 6-7.
Ovary completely 1-celled. Stipules large.—Species 3. West Africa.  Magnistipula Engl.

Receptacle without a scale-like appendage. Stipules small.  31

31. Ovary completely 1-celled. Fertile stamens 3-10. Fruit 1-seeded.—Species
3. East Africa and Madagascar.  Hirtella L.

Ovary completely or incompletely 2-celled. Fertile stamens 10-20. Fruit usually 2-seeded.—Species 25. Tropical and South Africa. Some of them yield timber, tanners’ bark, medicaments, and edible fruits, from which also oil, glue, and an inebriating drink are prepared. (Parinari
Aubl.) (Plate 65).  Parinarium Juss.

FAMILY 104. CONNARACEAE.

Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, pinnate, but sometimes with 3 leaflets only, exstipulate. Flowers in fascicles, racemes or panicles, regular, hermaphrodite or polygamous. Calyx 5-cleft or 5-parted. Petals 5, free, rarely slightly united, imbricate in the bud. Stamens 5-10, free or united at the base. Carpels 1-5, free, superior. Ovules 2 to each carpel, erect or ascending, straight. Ripe carpels dry, dehiscing by a longitudinal slit, rarely indehiscent, usually solitary. Seeds with an aril often adnate to the testa.—Genera 12, species 140. Tropical and South Africa. (Plate 66.)

1. Sepals imbricate in the bud. Seeds exalbuminous. [Tribe CONNAREAE.].  2

Sepals valvate in the bud. Seeds albuminous. Stamens 10. Carpels 5.
[Tribe CNESTIDEAE.]  8

2. Ripe carpel indehiscent, nearly always 2-seeded. Seeds with a large, adnate aril. Calyx hardened in fruit. Petals greatly exceeding the sepals. Stamens 10, very unequal, surrounded by a disc. Carpel 1.
Flowers in clusters, springing from the old wood.—Species 3. Equatorial
West Africa (Gaboon). (Anthagathis Harms).  Jollydora Pierre

Ripe carpel (or carpels) dehiscing lengthwise, usually 1-seeded.  3

3. Fruit-carpels narrowed at the base into a distinct stalk. Seeds attached to the ventral suture, with a free aril. Calyx not enlarged in fruit.—Species
18. Central Africa. Some are used medicinally. (Plate 66.)  Connarus L.

Fruit-carpels not stalked. Seeds attached at their base. Carpels (at the
time of flowering) 3-5.  4

4. Calyx scarcely or not enlarged in fruit, small, usually flaccid.  5

Calyx conspicuously enlarged and hardened in fruit, leathery to woody.
Stamens 10. Carpels 5.  6

5. Leaves trifoliolate.—Species 25. Tropics. Some are used medicinally.  Agelaea Sol.

Leaves pinnate, with several pairs of leaflets. Stamens 10. Carpels 5.
Styles 2-cleft at the apex. Calyx persistent.—Species 7. Tropics.
Some are poisonous. (Under Rourea Aubl.)  Byrsocarpus Schum. & Thonn.

6. Calyx tightly clasping the fruit, herbaceous at the time of flowering. Styles short; stigmas capitate. Seeds with very convex cotyledons.—Species
40. Tropics. Some are poisonous or used in medicine.  Rourea Aubl.

Calyx not clasping the fruit. Stamens very unequal. Styles long.  7

7. Stem twining. Inflorescence paniculate. Calyx leathery at the time of flowering. Seeds with flat cotyledons.—Species 2. Equatorial
West Africa.  Paxia Gilg

Stem erect. Inflorescence racemose-fasciculate. Anther-halves distant from one another, the pollen-sacs placed crosswise.—Species 1. Equatorial
West Africa. (Jaundea Gilg).  Yaundea Gilg

8. (1.) Ripe carpel indehiscent, not stalked, with a crusty pericarp. Seeds enveloped by a thin aril. Carpel 1. Stamens 5-7, alternating with as many glands. Calyx deeply divided, persistent, but not enlarged in fruit. Low trees. Leaves unifoliolate. Flowers in clusters.—Species 2.
West Africa.  Hemandradenia Stapf

Ripe carpel (or carpels) dehiscing lengthwise.  9

9. Receptacle prolonged into a stalk-like androphore. Sepals red, free. Petals yellow, clawed, with 2 glands above the claw. Styles long. Erect shrubs.—Species 1. Northern West Africa (Liberia).  Dinklagea Gilg

Receptacle not prolonged. Petals without glands. Mostly climbing shrubs.  10

10. Sepals united to the middle, ovate-triangular. Petals linear, four times as long as the calyx, rolled inwards at the tip. Stamens very unequal.
Styles long; stigmas lobed.—Species 6. West Africa.  Spiropetalum Gilg

Sepals free or nearly so. Petals not more than twice as long as the calyx.
Styles short; stigmas capitate.  11

11. Fruit-carpels glabrous on the inside, short-haired on the outside, prolonged into a stalk at the base. Seeds without a distinct aril, but with
a fleshy testa. Embryo long and narrow. Petals longer than the calyx.—Species 10. West Africa.  Manotes Sol.

Fruit-carpels covered with long stiff hairs on the inside and usually also on the outside. Seeds with a very small adnate aril at the base. Petals as long as or shorter or somewhat longer than the calyx. Stamens subequal.—Species 30. Tropical and South Africa. Some are used medicinally.  Cnestis Juss.

FAMILY 105. LEGUMINOSAE

Leaves usually compound and stipulate. Anthers 2-celled. Ovary superior, 1-celled. Ovules inserted at the ventral suture. Style simple, but sometimes with a tooth near the apex. Stigma entire. Fruit 1-, 2-, or transversely several-celled, opening in two valves or along the ventral suture, or separating transversely in two or more joints, or indehiscent.—Genera 261, species 3300 (FABACEAE, including PAPILIONACEAE, CAESALPINIACEAE and MIMOSACEAE.) (Plate 67.)

1. Petals valvate in bud. Flowers regular. Leaves twice pinnate, rarely
(Acacia) reduced to the broadened stalk. [Subfamily MIMOSOIDEAE.]  2

Petals imbricate in bud or wanting. Flowers more or less irregular (sometimes nearly regular.)  28

2. Calyx with imbricate aestivation. Unarmed trees. [Tribe PARKIEAE].  3

Calyx with valvate aestivation.  4

3. Flowers in long spikes, yellowish. Fertile stamens 5, sterile ones 10-15.—Species
3. West Africa. They yield timber, oil, and edible seeds.
(ovala-seeds)  Pentaclethra Benth.

Flowers in globular or club-shaped heads. Fertile stamens 10.—Species
7. Tropics. They yield timber, tanners’ bark, vegetables, medicaments, edible fruits, from which a drink is prepared, and oily seeds, which are also used as a condiment, a substitute for coffee, a fish-poison, and for improving bad water.  Parkia R. Br.

4. Stamens as many or twice as many as the petals.  5

Stamens more than twice as many as the petals. Trees or shrubs.  25

5. Anthers without glands. [Tribe MIMOSEAE.]  6

Anthers crowned, at least in the bud, by a sometimes caducous gland.
Stamens 10.  9

6. Fruit dehiscing by two valves which separate from the persistent sutures.
Petals united below.  7

Fruit dehiscing by two valves which do not separate from the sutures, or indehiscent.  8

7. Fruit and seeds slightly 4-angled, the former prickly. Petals red. Stamens
8-10. Herbs or undershrubs. Flowers in heads.—Species 1. West
Africa.  Schranckia Willd.

Fruit and seeds flat.—Species 20. Tropics to Egypt, one species naturalized. Some yield timber or medicaments or serve as ornamental plants.  Mimosa L.

8. Fruit broadly linear. Seeds placed transversely. Petals free, white.
Stamens 10. Ovary stalked. Unarmed shrubs or trees. Flowers in heads.—Species 1 (L. glauca Benth.). Naturalized in the Tropics. It yields timber, fodder, edible fruits, ornamental seeds, and medicaments.  Leucaena Benth.

Fruit narrowly linear. Seeds placed obliquely or longitudinally.—Species
7. One of them naturalized in the Tropics, the others natives of Madagascar.
Seeds used as ornament. (Acuan Medik.)  Desmanthus Willd.

9. Seeds albuminous. [Tribe ADENANTHEREAE.]  10

Seeds exalbuminous. [Tribe PIPTADENIEAE.]  19

10. Flowers in heads.  11

Flowers in spikes or racemes.  12

11. Flowers partly (the upper) hermaphrodite, partly (the lower) male or neuter. Ovary stalked. Ovules numerous. Fruit obliquely-oblong, opening by two valves. Herbs or undershrubs. Stipules membranous, cordate.—Species 1. Tropics. Used as a vegetable.  Neptunia Lour.

Flowers all hermaphrodite. Ovary sessile. Ovules 1-2. Fruit sickle-shaped, indehiscent. Shrubs. Stipules spinous, recurved.—Species
1. South Africa.  Xerocladia Harv.

12. Flowers partly (the upper) hermaphrodite and yellow, partly (the lower) neuter and white or red. Fruit not winged. Shrubs or trees.—Species
12. Tropical and South Africa. Some species yield ebony-like wood and medicaments. (Cailliea Guill. & Perr.)  Dichrostachys DC.

Flowers partly hermaphrodite, partly male or female, or all hermaphrodite; no neuter flowers. Trees.  13

13. Fruit winged or distinctly 4-angled, transversely septate, indehiscent.  14

Fruit neither winged nor distinctly 4-angled.  16

14. Fruit 2-winged. Ovary stalked. Flowers sessile.—Species 1. Madagascar and Mauritius.  Gagnebina DC.

Fruit 4-winged or 4-angled. Ovary sessile or nearly so. Flowers stalked.  15

15. Fruit 4-winged.—Species 3. Central Africa. They yield timber, a substitute for soap, poison, and medicaments.  Tetrapleura Benth.

Fruit 4-angled. Leaves with 4-5 pairs of pinnae.—Species 1. Central
Africa.  Amblygonocarpus Harms

16. Fruit distinctly dehiscing in two valves.  17

Fruit indehiscent.  18

17. Seeds few, very flat, winged, with a long funicle.—Species 3. Equatorial
West Africa.  Newtonia Baill.

Seeds numerous, thick, red. Leaflets numerous.—Species 1 (A. pavonina
L.). Naturalized in the tropics. It yields timber, gum, dyes, medicaments, and edible oily seeds, which are also used as ornaments.  Adenanthera L.

18. Calyx large, tube- or urn-shaped, with ovate, acute teeth. Stamens inserted at the base of the petals. Leaves with one pair of pinnae and several pairs of very large oblong leaflets. Spikes arranged in panicles.—Species 1. Equatorial West Africa (Cameroons). Yields timber and medicaments.  Calpocalyx Harms

Calyx small, bell-shaped, with short segments. Stamens free. Leaves with 2-5 pairs of pinnae and small or rather small leaflets.—Species 3.
North and Central Africa. They yield timber and edible fruits. (Including
Anonychium Benth.)  Prosopis L.

19. (9.) Flowers in heads. Ovary sessile, with many ovules. Fruit transversely septate. Trees.—Species 5. Tropics. They yield timber and a substitute for soap. (Under Parkia R.Br.)  Xylia Benth.

Flowers in spikes or racemes. Shrubs or trees.  20

20. Flowers sessile.  21

Flowers short-stalked.  23

21. Calyx saucer-shaped, cleft to the middle. Petals free. Disc cupular, thick. Fruit large, elliptical, 1-celled. Seeds winged, with a long funicle. Trees. Leaves with 1-2 pairs of pinnae. Spikes panicled.—Species
1. Equatorial West Africa. Yields timber.  Fillaeopsis Harms

Calyx bell-shaped, shortly toothed. Disc inconspicuous or wanting.  22

22. Petals obviously united below. Fruit 1-celled, opening in two valves.—Species
13. Tropics to Delagoa Bay. Some species yield ebony-like wood.  Piptadenia Benth.

Petals free or nearly so. Fruit with thick, persistent sutures, the valves splitting transversely into one-seeded joints. Endocarp separating from the exocarp and persisting round the seeds. Shrubs.—Species 10.
Tropical and South Africa. Some species (especially E. scandens L. with fruits attaining a yard in length) yield soap-bark, fibre, vegetables, fish-poison, and edible oily seeds which are also used in medicine and as ornaments. (Gigalobium P.Br., Pusaetha L.)  Entada Adans.

23. Disc cupular, thin. Ovary stalked. Seeds winged. Trees. Leaves with one pair of pinnae. Flowers with a very short stalk.—Species 1.
Equatorial West Africa. Yields timber. (Including Cyrtoxiphus Harms)  Cylicodiscus Harms

Disc inconspicuous or wanting. Ovary sessile or nearly so. Shrubs.
Leaves with 3-12 pairs of pinnae.  24

24. Calyx-teeth more or less unequal. Buds oblique. Fruit woody, transversely septate, opening in two valves. Leaves with 3-6 pairs of pinnae.—Species
1. German East Africa.  Pseudoprosopis Harms

Calyx-teeth equal. Fruit leathery, with persistent sutures, the endocarp separating from the exocarp. Leaves with 6-12 pairs of pinnae.—Species
5. South Africa and southern Central Africa. They yield fish-poison and are used in medicine.  Elephantorrhiza Benth.

25. (4.) Filaments free or the inner united into a ring. Petals white or yellow.—Species
80. They yield timber, fibre, soap-bark, gum (especially from A. Senegal Willd., Verek), tanning and dyeing materials, perfumes, oil, and medicaments; some are used as ornamental plants. (Including
Vachellia Arn.) [Tribe ACACIEAE.]  Acacia Willd.

Filaments united into a tube, at least at the base. Petals white or red.
Flowers in heads. Unarmed plants. [Tribe INGEAE.]  26

26. Fruit strongly curved or coiled, thick, leathery, separating into one-seeded
joints or indehiscent. Petals united beyond the middle. Trees.—Species
3. Tropics; one species naturalized. They yield timber, gum, tanning and dyeing materials, edible fruits, and medicaments.  Pithecolobium Mart.

Fruit straight or nearly so.  27

27. Fruit dehiscing elastically. Petals united to the middle. Shrubs.—Species
5. Tropics. They yield timber, gum, and medicaments, and are used also as ornamental plants.  Calliandra Benth.

Fruit dehiscing in two straight and thin, not elastic valves, or indehiscent.
Petals united to the middle or beyond.—Species 45. Tropical and
South-east Africa; several species also cultivated in Egypt. Some species (especially A. Lebbek Benth.) yield timber, tanners’ bark, gum, condiments, and medicaments, or serve as ornamental plants. (Including
Zygia Benth.)  Albizzia Durazz.

28. (1.) Petals 1-6, the posterior one (the one next the placenta) inside of all in the bud, not forming a papilionaceous corolla, or wanting altogether.
Embryo usually with a straight radicle. [Subfamily CAESALPINIOIDEAE.]  29

Petals 5, the posterior outside in bud, usually constituting a papilionaceous corolla. Sepals united below. Stamens 10, more rarely 5-9. Embryo usually with an inflexed radicle. Leaves simple, unifoliolate, digitate, or once pinnate. [Subfamily PAPILIONATAE.]  104

29. Calyx undivided or shortly lobed in the bud, usually more deeply divided at the time of flowering.  30

Calyx, already in the bud, divided down to the receptacle or nearly so.  39

30. Stamens 1-10. Corolla of 5 petals, nearly regular. Trees or shrubs.  31

Stamens 16 or more. Corolla of 6 petals, or of a single petal, or wanting.
Calyx undivided in bud. Leaves imparipinnate or unifoliolate. Trees.
[Tribe SWARTZIEAE.]  37

31. Leaves undivided, 2-lobed, 2-parted, or of 2 leaflets. [Tribe BAUHINIEAE.]  32

Leaves pinnate, with many leaflets. Stamens 10.  34

32. Ovary and fruit with a very long stalk, the fruit turgid. Ovules few.
Style short. Stamens 10. Petals red. Calyx 5-lobed, imbricate in bud. Climbing shrubs. Leaves undivided, penninerved or faintly trinerved.—Species 3. West Africa. (Bandeiraea Welw.)  Griffonia Baill.

Ovary and fruit with a short or rather short stalk, the fruit not turgid.  33

33. Receptacle (calyx-tube) very long. Petals yellowish. Stamens 10, partly sterile. Leaves undivided, ovate or elliptical. Racemes many-flowered.—Species
1. Madagascar. (Under Bauhinia L.)  Gigasiphon Drake

Receptacle (calyx-tube) not very long.—Species 40. Tropical and
South Africa, and Egypt. Some species yield timber, fibre, tanning and dyeing materials, edible roots, oily seeds, and medicaments, or
serve as ornamental plants. (Plate 67.)  Bauhinia L.

34. Leaves once pinnate, with a terminal leaflet. Calyx campanulate, subequally 5-lobed. Petals subequal, white or red. Ovules numerous.
Fruit opening by two valves. Shrubs. Flowers solitary or in racemes.—Species
8. Madagascar and East Africa.  Cadia Forsk.

Leaves twice pinnate. [Tribe DIMORPHANDREAE.]  35

35. Ovary sessile or nearly so. Ovules 2. Style very short. Fruit with a thin, leathery rind, indehiscent. Seeds suborbicular. Flowers in spikes.—Species 2. Central Africa to Transvaal. They yield gum.  Burkea Hook.

Ovary stalked. Ovules more than 2. Fruit with a thick, leathery rind.
Flowers in racemes. Trees.  36

36. Calyx-lobes unequal. Petals with a long claw. Stamens with a glandular connective. Style long. Fruit long, wavy, indehiscent. Leaflets small.—Species 1. Madagascar and Seychelles.  Brandzeia Baill.

Calyx-lobes subequal. Stamens with a glandless connective. Style short. Fruit oblong, dehiscing by two valves. Seeds oblong. Leaflets large.—Species 5. Tropics. They yield timber, tanning and dyeing materials, medicaments, and poisons especially used in ordeals. “Sassy tree.” (Fillaea Guill. & Perr.).  Erythrophloeum Afz.

37. (30.) Corolla of 6 petals, almost regular. Stamens 16-18. Ovary sessile.
Ovules 2. Leaves unifoliolate.—Species 2. West Africa to the
Great Lakes. They yield timber.  Baphiopsis Benth.

Corolla reduced to a single petal or wanting. Ovary stalked. Ovules more than 2. Leaves pinnate.  38

38. Receptacle (calyx-tube) very short, almost wanting. Petal 1. Fruit linear.—Species
2. Tropics. Yielding timber. (Tounatea Aubl.).  Swartzia Schreb.

Receptacle bell-shaped. Petals none. Fruit ovate.—Species 1 (C. africana Lour.). Central Africa. Yields timber, gum, edible fruits, and medicaments.  Cordyla Lour.

39. (29.) Leaves, at least some of them, twice pinnate. [Tribe CAESALPINIEAE.]  40

Leaves all once pinnate, rarely simple.  52

40. Common petiole very short, ending in a spine; rachis of the pinnae very long, flattened, leaf-like; leaflets very small. Stipules spinous.
Trees or shrubs. Calyx imbricate in bud. Petals 5, subequal, yellow.
Stamens 10. Ovules numerous. Fruit linear, tardily dehiscing or indehiscent. Seeds oblong, placed lengthwise, albuminous.—Species 2, one of them a native of South Africa, the other naturalized in the tropics.
They yield timber, bast for paper-making, a substitute for coffee, and medicaments, and serve also as garden- or hedge-plants.  Parkinsonia L.

Common petiole distinctly developed; rachis of the pinnae not leaf-like.  41

41. Stem herbaceous or woody at the base only. Petals 5, subequal, yellow.
Stamens 10. Ovules numerous. Fruit dehiscing by two valves, membranous or thin-leathery. Seeds transverse, ovoid, exalbuminous.—Species
3. South Africa and southern Central Africa. (Melanosticta
DC.)  Hoffmannseggia Cav.

Stem woody throughout, shrub- or tree-like.  42

42. Flowers sessile, in elongate panicled spikes. Calyx 5-cleft, with semiorbicular lobes. Petals 5, equal, oblong, much exceeding the calyx. Stamens
10, unequal. Anthers basifixed. Ovules 2-3. Trees.—Species 1.
West Africa (Cameroons).  Stachyothyrsus Harms

Flowers more or less stalked, in racemes or panicles.  43

43. Flowers polygamous. Calyx slightly imbricate in bud. Petals 3-5, subequal, white or greenish. Stamens 6-10. Seeds transverse, albuminous.
Trees. Leaves without stipules.—Species 2, one a native of
Central Africa, the other naturalized in North Africa. Used as hedge-plants and yielding timber.  Gleditschia L.

Flowers hermaphrodite. Stamens 10.  44

44. Petal 1, greenish-yellow. Calyx valvate in bud. Ovules very numerous.
Styles long. Trees.—Species 1. Madagascar.  Aprevalia Baill.

Petals 5.  45

45. Sepals united high up, excepting one, valvate in bud. Petals unequal, red. Ovules numerous. Fruit straight, turgid, dehiscing by two valves. Seeds transverse. Trees. Bracts coloured.—Species 1.
Madagascar. Used as an ornamental plant.  Colvillea Boj.

Sepals free above the receptacle.  46

46. Sepals valvate in bud. Petals yellow or red. Ovules numerous. Style thread-shaped. Fruit dehiscing by two valves. Seeds transverse, oblong, albuminous. Trees. Stipules indistinct. Flowers large.—Species
3. Tropics; also cultivated in various regions. Ornamental plants. “Flame-tree.”  Poinciana L.

Sepals imbricate in bud. Seeds exalbuminous.  47

47. Ovule 1, very rarely ovules 2. Seed 1, placed lengthwise. Fruit winged at the top, indehiscent. Petals subequal, white or yellow. Spinous climbing shrubs. Flowers small.—Species 1. Abyssinia. (Cantuffa
Gmel.).  Pterolobium R.Br.

Ovules 2 or more. Seeds placed transversely.  48

48. Fruit woody, not winged, 2-seeded, opening by two valves. Ovary short-stalked,
2-ovuled. Stigma peltate. Stamens hairy at the base. Petals unequal. Receptacle oblique.—Species 2. German East Africa.
(Under Peltophorum Vog.).  Bussea Harms

Fruit membranous or leathery.  49

49. Fruit winged at both sutures, indehiscent. Stigma broad-peltate. Filaments hairy at the base. Petals subequal, yellow. Trees—Species 1.
Central Africa and northern South Africa.  Peltophorum Vog.

Fruit winged at one suture only or not winged. Stigma small, sometimes
concave.  50

50. Fruit winged, indehiscent. Receptacle (calyx-tube) very oblique. Petals subequal, yellow. Stamens bent downwards.—Species 5. West
Africa and Madagascar.  Mezoneurum Desf.

Fruit not winged. Receptacle not very oblique.  51

51. Fruit membranous, lanceolate, dehiscing in the middle of the valves.
Seeds oblong. Sepals subequal. Petals oblong, subequal, yellow.
Stamens erect, hairy at the base. Ovary short-stalked. Ovules 2-3.
Trees.—Species 1 (H. campecheanum L.). Cultivated in the tropics.
Yields timber (log-wood), dyes, gum, and medicaments, and serves also as a garden- and hedge-plant.  Haematoxylon L.

Fruit leathery, dehiscing at the sutures or indehiscent. Seeds ovoid or globose. Petals yellow or red. Stamens bent downwards. Ovules few.—Species 10, of which 7 are natives of tropical and South Africa,
3 naturalized there as well as in Egypt and Madeira. They yield timber, tanning and dyeing materials, oily seeds, and medicaments, and are also used as garden- and hedge-plants. (Including Guilandina L.).  Caesalpinia L.

52. (39.) Anthers attached by the base or nearly so, rarely by the back, and then opening by apical pores. Seeds usually albuminous. [Tribe
CASSIEAE.]  53

Anthers distinctly attached by the back, opening by longitudinal slits.
Seeds usually exalbuminous. Trees or shrubs.  58

53. Petals 1-2 or 0. Ovules 2-3. Fruit indehiscent, 1-2-seeded. Trees.
Leaves unequally pinnate.  54

Petals 3-5.  55

54. Stamens 2-3.—Species 10. Tropics. They yield timber and edible fruits from which an intoxicating drink is prepared.  Dialium L.

Stamens 8-10. Petals none.—Species 1. East Africa. Yields timber.  Andradia Sim

55. Petals 3, narrow, yellow. Fertile stamens 2; anthers opening by a terminal pore. Staminodes 3, petaloid. Ovules 4-5. Trees. Leaves unequally pinnate.—Species 1. Equatorial West Africa. Yields timber.  Distemonanthus Benth.

Petals 5. Stamens 4-10.  56

56. Sepals 4. Petals unequal, red. Stamens 4-5, some of them with cohering anthers. Ovules 2. Fruit 4-winged. Leaves unequally pinnate.—Species
1. Equatorial West Africa. (Oligostemon Benth.)  Duparquetia Baill.

Sepals 5. Leaves equally pinnate or simple.  57

57. Leaves simple, undivided. Stamens 10. Filaments thickened above.
Anthers opening below the top. Ovules few. Fruit fleshy, with transverse partitions. Trees.—Species 2. Madagascar.  Baudouinia Baill.

Leaves pinnate.—Species 40. They yield timber, gum, tanning and dyeing materials, fish-poison, medicaments (especially senna-leaves),