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