The flowering plants of Africa: An analytical key to the genera of African phanerogramsThonner, Franz
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The flowering plants of Africa: An analytical key to the genera of African phanerograms
Thonner, Franz
Angiosperms -- Africa; Plants -- Africa
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),
fodder, vegetables, edible fruits, and a substitute for coffee; several
species are used as ornamental plants. =Cassia= L.
58. (52.) Ovules 2, rarely 3 or 1, occasionally in some flowers 4.
Ovary or its stalk usually free at the base of the receptacle, more
rarely adnate to it. [Tribe CYNOMETREAE.]. 59
Ovules 4 or more, occasionally in some flowers only 3. Ovary or its
stalk usually adnate to the receptacle by the back. Leaves pinnate.
[Tribe AMHERSTIEAE.] 80
59. Petals none. 60
Petals 1-5. 64
60. Sepals 6, very small and unequal. Stamens 6. Ovary sessile. Shrubs.
Leaves pinnate. Bracteoles large.--Species 1. Southern West Africa
(Congo). =Dewindtia= De Wild.
Sepals 4-5. Stamens 8-10 or 4. Trees. Leaves abruptly pinnate.
Bracteoles small or wanting. 61
61. Sepals 5, distinctly imbricate in bud. Stamens 10. Ovary sessile.
Stigma acute. Bracteoles present.--Species 2. West Africa (Cameroons).
They yield timber. (Under _Copaiba_ Mill. or _Hardwickia_ Roxb.)
=Oxystigma= Harms
Sepals 4. 62
62. Stamens 4, inserted on the outside of a spathe-like disc cleft on
one side. Sepals imbricate in bud. Ovary nearly sessile. Bracteoles
present.--Species 1. West Africa (Cameroons). =Stemonocoleus= Harms
Stamens 8-10. 63
63. Ovary sessile. Fruit sessile, drupe-like, indehiscent. Bracteoles
present.--Species 3. Central Africa. They yield timber, fragrant resin,
arrow-poison, and medicaments. The fruits of one species are edible, of
another poisonous. “Dattock.” =Detarium= Juss.
Ovary stalked. Fruit stalked, oblique, with a leathery rind, dehiscing
by two valves. Bracteoles none.--Species 9. Central Africa. They
yield timber, a resin (copal) used for making ornaments, lacs and
varnishes, dye stuffs, medicaments, and edible seeds. (_Copaiba_ Mill.)
=Copaifera= L.
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