78. Flowers in terminal, few-flowered corymbs. Filaments hairy at the base. Fruit flat, ovate, beaked, opening by two valves. Low, glandular shrubs.--Species 1. East Africa (Somaliland). The seeds are edible. =Cordeauxia= Hemsl. Flowers in racemes springing from the axils of the leaves or from the old wood. 79 79. Fruit lanceolate, flat, bursting in the middle of the valves, but remaining closed at the sutures. Sepals 5. Corolla yellow. Filaments erect, hairy at the base. Stalk of the ovary free. Trees. (See 51.) =Haematoxylon= L. Fruit more or less ovate and turgid, opening in two valves. Filaments usually glabrous.--Species 20. West Africa and Madagascar. Some species yield timber and resin (copal). =Cynometra= L. 80. (58.) Petals reduced to minute scales or wanting. Trees. 81 Petals well developed. 87 81. Bracteoles large, enclosing the bud, persisting during the time of flowering. Calyx consisting of 1-5 scale-like sepals, or replaced by a 10-lobed disc, or wanting altogether. 82 Bracteoles small, not enclosing the bud, falling off early. Calyx of 4-5 well-developed sepals. 83 82. Disc fleshy. Petals 5, awl-shaped. Stamens 5-6. Stipules small, connate.--Species 4. West Africa. =Didelotia= Baill. Disc none. Stamens 10-20, more or less united at the base. Ovules few. Fruit oblong or linear, opening in two valves. Seeds exalbuminous.--Species 20. Central Africa. The seeds of some species are eaten and the bark is used as a substitute for cloth. (Under _Didelotia_ Baill.) =Brachystegia= Benth. 83. Sepals 5. Petals 0. Stamens 5. Disc expanded. Ovary in its centre, subsessile. Ovules numerous. Style very short; stigma peltate. Fruit linear, indehiscent. Seeds albuminous. Leaves equally pinnate. Flowers polygamous-dioecious. Bracteoles very small, deciduous.--Species 1 (_C. Siliqua_ L., carob-tree). North Africa. The fruits are edible, and used as fodder and for preparing brandy and medicaments; the seeds serve as a substitute for coffee. =Ceratonia= L. Sepals 4. Stamens 8-10. Disc not expanded. 84 84. Petals 5, scale-like. Stamens 10. Leaves equally pinnate. Flowers in panicles.--Species 12. Central and South Africa. They yield timber, gum, and edible seeds from which meal is prepared. (_Theodora_ Medik.) =Schotia= Jaqu. Petals none. 85 85. Stamens 8, alternatingly unequal. Ovary sessile. Ovules numerous. Leaves unequally pinnate. Flowers in compound racemes. Bracteoles linear.--Species 1. Equatorial West Africa (Gaboon). =Hylodendron= Taub. Stamens 10, rarely 8, but then equal in length. Ovary short-stalked. Ovules few. 86 86. Stamens unequal, 10. Fruit oblong, winged, indehiscent. Seeds pendulous. Leaves equally pinnate. Flowers in simple racemes.--Species 1. Madagascar. =Apaloxylon= Drake Stamens equal in length. Fruit broad-oblong to orbicular, dehiscing in two valves. Leaves unequally pinnate.--Species 5. Central Africa to Delagoa Bay. (_Apalatoa_ Aubl.) =Crudia= Schreb.