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at the base, more or less connate with the others about the middle or 
quite free; filaments not dilated; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile or 
rarely stalked, often surrounded by an annular disk or short sheath, multi- 
ovulate ; style inflexed, terete, glabrous, with a small terminal stigma. 
Pod linear-lanceolate or oblong, compressed, coriaceous or woody, two- 
valved, ultimately dehiscing.—Shrubs_ or trees, distinguished from 
Lonchocarpus only by the pod ultimately dehiscing, so that for want of 
fully ripe fruit the place of several of the species is uncertain. 
A moderate-sized genus, with one Australian and two Cape species; the others which 
are not African plants of Tropical Asia. 
Leaves and branches glabrous or subglabrous. 
Exstipellate. 
Standard 1 in. broad 
Standard 4 in. broad 
Stipellate. 
Standard naked on the back; leaflets 7-9 
Standard silky on the back; leaflets 11-21. 
Stamens monadelphons . fee 
Stamens diadelphous. 
. MW. macrophylla. 
. M. Manni. 
. MW. Thonningii. 
. WM, drastica. 
On FF w We 
Corolla 3 in. deep; leaflets 14-2 in. long - HM. gracilis. 
Corolla 9-12 lines deep ; leaflets 4-5 in. long . . I. versicolor. 
a beneath and branches pubescent. 
ixstipellate. 
= climber; corolladin. deep . . . =... . + % + Vy Jf eropaglla, 
rect trees; corolla 9-12 lines deep. : 
Standard naked on the back . . . . - - - - - - 8 MM. aboensis, 
Standard silky on the back. : 
beaiom 7-9 5-41 lone 2. 5 a .) pews 8 
apulies 17-21 POW longs hehe Y ; 
Ppa a a . 11. M. rhodantha. 
1 macrophylla, Hovk. 7. Fl. Nigr. 318, t. 32-3. A smal] tree 
with terete branches. Leaves glabrous, long-stalked, the rachis often 
a foot long, firm, and glabrous like the twigs. Leatlets in ee 
and a terminal one, the upper ones obovate-oblong, 4—6 in. long, “4-3 
in. broad, the apex not narrowed, upper surface deep green, glabrous, 
lower pale-green, very finely silky, the veins raised and ferruginous. 
Petiolules 2-8 lines long, without. stipelle. Flowers in lax long- 
stalked erect racemes a foot long, the lower ones 5—6 in a cluster on 
short branches. Bracts lanceolate, deciduous, equalling the silky pe- 
dicels, 4 in, long. Calyx deeply campanulate, 3-4 lines deep, densely 
brown-silky, the teeth very nearly obsolete. Corolla an inch long, 
purplish, the standard an inch broad, not silky on the back, the upper 
filament free to the middle. Pod oblong-lanceolate, 4-5 in. long, 1} in. 
broad, glabrous when mature, very coriaceous, 4—6-seeded, not at all 
torulose. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Vogel! 
2. M.? Mannii, Baler. A tree or shrub with glabrous = 
Petioles ee long. Leaves 8-9 in. long, with 15-17 obovate-ob- 
i the 
ons pointed subcoriaceous opaque pale-green glabrous leaflets, 
"Upper ones 3-3} in. long, 12.18 lines broad, the main veins beneath 
