306 MR. G. BENTHAM'8 SYNOPSIS OF DALBERGIEJE, 
ramulis gracilibus, floribus parvis, ovulis cirea 4, staminibus mona- 
delphis, legumine oblongo hine alato.— Brachypterum Benthamii, 
Thw. Enum. Pl. Ceyl. p. 93.— Foliola quam in D, scandente majora, 
pleraque. 2-3-pollicaria, maxima usque ad 4$ poll. longa, 2 poll. lata, 
obtusa у, breviter et obtuse acuminata nec mucronata, petiolulo 14-2 
lin. longo. Inflorescentia pube minima sericeo-rufescente vestita, 
irregulariter paniculata; fasciculorum rhaches plermque in ramulos 
graciles sparsifloros abeunt, superiores вере abbreviate, 2-3-florz. 
Pedicelli vix lineam longi. Flores vix 3 lin. longi, eeterum iis D. 
scandentis similes. Legumen (ex Thwaites) 1—13 poll. longum, 6-7 
lin.latum. Species ulterius comparanda cum formis nonnullis aub D. 
Heyneana enumeratis quarum legumen ignotum. 
Hab, Ceylon, Walker; also Thwaites, whose specimens, however, I have 
not seen. 
'This and the two preceding species differ from the other Brachyptera 
in their inflorescence, which is nearer to that of some Dipteroderrides, 
and possibly, when better known, will have to be removed into that 
`+ section, next to D. Heyneana. 
Sect, 2. EUDERRIS. 
* Americane. 
10, D, curawENsis (Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras, Leg. ined.), foliolis 
sub-5 ovatis v. ovali-oblongis acuminatis basi rotundatis coriaceis 
glabris supra nitidis subtus pallidis v. glaucescentibus, racemis flori- 
bundis rufo-pubescentibus simplicibus, pedicellis fasciculatis, legumine 
oblongo-lineari tenui acutiusculo hinc alato. — Degwelia scandens, 
Aubl. Pl. Gui. p. 750, t. 300, quoad specim. florid. excl. leg.; Lon- 
chocarpus pterocarpus, DC, Prod. ii. p. 260.~Alte seandens. Foliola 
9-3-pollicaria v. maxima usque ad 7 poll. longa, 4 poll. lata, Racemi 
axillares v. laterales, 4-8-pollicares, a basi floribundi, Flores 4-5 lin. 
longi. Ovula 2. Legumen sessile, monospermum 2-3-pollicare, 2- 
spermum 4--5-роШеаге, circa 9 lin. latum, inclusa ala 1j lin. lata. 
Hab. Tropical America, Cayenne, Aublet, Perrottet ; Surinam, Wall- 
schnagel, n. 839, also Kegel, 1174 (Miquel); British Guiana, Rob. 
rpg lst coll. n. 564, 2nd coll. n. 953; Rich. Schomburgk, 
n. . 
Aublet’s flowering specimens in the British Museum certainly belong 
· to this species, although his figure even of the flowering plant is not a 
very good representation of it, and the fruit, evidently mismatched, is 
precisely that of the Miillera moniliformis when reduced to a single 
seed. The D. guianensis, in the shape of the pod, comes as near to the 
section Brachypterum as to Euderris, but ] have placed it in the latter 
on account of the very close resemblance of the whole plant ta the two 
following species, | | 
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