Entry for BANDEIRÆA simplicifolia Benth. [family ]
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 2, page 1, (1871) Author: Papilionaceae by Mr. J. G. Baker; Caesalpinieae and Mimoseae by Prof. Oliver)
Notes
The above description is taken from Schumacher and Thonning. I have not seen a specimen. Dr. Baillon figures in Adansonia, vi. 2, fig. 1, a specimen of Vahl's type from the Jussieuan Herbarium. The racemes are represented as lateral, extra-axillary, ascending and shorter than or scarcely equalling the leaves, as well as terminal. The trinervation of the leaves is conspicuous, the lateral nervures considerably within the margin and evanescing above the middle. In the herbarium of the British Museum is a Bandeiræa from Cape Coast (Brass), in which the leaves are less distinctly 3-nerved than in B. speciosa, and the racemes shorter, though exceeding the leaves. I think this probably B. simplicifolia; indeed I much doubt if B. speciosa be specifically distinct.
