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
Petals with an almost free, notched scale. Disc free. Filaments
glabrous. Fruit almost globose; pericarp crustaceous or woody, hispid
on the outside, woolly within.--Species 3. West Africa. Yielding
timber. =Eriocoelum= Hook. fil.
27. (23.) Sepals narrowly imbricate in bud. 28
Sepals broadly imbricate in bud. 33
28. Stamens 5. Petals hooded, without scales. Disc 5-lobed. Ovary
2-celled. Fruit indehiscent, with a crustaceous pericarp. Seeds with an
aril. Leaves with numerous leaflets. Inflorescences arising from the
older parts of the stem.--Species 1. Madagascar. =Pseudopteris= Baill.
Stamens 6-10. 29
29. Stamens 6-7. Petals hairy, with 1-2 scales adnate by their edges.
Ovary 2-celled. Fruit compressed, dehiscent, with a cartilagineous
endocarp. Seeds with an adnate aril. Leaves with 4-11 pairs of
leaflets. Flowers in terminal panicles.--Species 3. Central Africa.
=Aporrhiza= Radlk.
Stamens 8-10. 30
30. Ovary 2-celled. Fruit indehiscent. Stamens 8. 31
Ovary 3-celled. Fruit tardily dehiscent. Stamens 8-10. Petals furnished
at the base with a scale adnate at each side. 32
31. Leaflets in 3-4 pairs, toothed, pellucidly dotted, beset with scaly
glands when young. Fruit 2-lobed, with a fleshy pericarp. Seeds without
an aril.--Species 1. South Africa (Cape Colony). (Under _Sapindus_ L.)
=Smelophyllum= Radlk.
Leaflets in 5 pairs, entire, beset with stellate hairs. Fruit with a
crustaceous pericarp. Seeds with a free aril.--Species 1 (_E. Longana_
Lam.). Cultivated in the tropics and in Egypt and naturalized in the
Mascarene Islands. Yields timber and edible fruits. (Under _Nephelium_
L.) =Euphoria= Commers.
32. Petals saccate at the base. Stamens 8, rarely 10. Fruit
large, bluntly 3-angled. Seeds enveloped at the base by an adnate
aril.--Species 3. West Africa. The aril is poisonous when unripe
or over-ripe, but edible when ripe, and used for preparing oil and
medicaments; from the fragrant flowers an aromatic liquid is prepared.
“Akee-tree.” (Under _Cupania_ L.) =Blighia= Koen.
Petals funnel-shaped. Stamens 10. Seeds enclosed in the fleshy testa.
Leaflets in 4-6 pairs, toothed.--Species 3. West Africa. =Lychnodiseus=
Radlk.
33. (27.) Stamens 5. Ovary 2-celled. Fruit compressed, dehiscent, with
a spongey pericarp. Seeds with a free aril.--Species 1. Madagascar.
=Tinopsis= Radlk.
Stamens 8-24. 34
34. Stamens 8. 35
Stamens 10-24. Seeds without an aril. 42
35. Leaves twice pinnate. Petals small. Fruit 1-celled, indehiscent,
with a crustaceous pericarp. Seeds with a membranous aril and
a crustaceous testa.--Species 10. Madagascar and East Africa.
=Macphersonia= Blume
Leaves once pinnate. 36
36. Petals with 1 scale. Seeds without an aril; testa membranous,
leathery, or crustaceous. 37
Petals with 2 scales, usually formed by the inflexion of their edges,
rarely (_Molinaea_) without scales. Seeds with an aril, rarely
(_Sapindus_) without, but then with a bony testa. 38
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