188 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Spatholodus. 
58. SPATHOLOBUS, Hassk.; Benth. et Hook. f. 
Gen. Plant. i. 584. 
Upper two teeth of calyx subconnate, the others equal. Standard 
ovate, obtuse, exappendiculate ; wings linear-oblong ; keel nearly 
straight, obtuse, equalling the wings. Upper stamen usually free, but 
in our plant connate with the others; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, 
biovulate ; style incurved, beardless ; stigma small, terminal. Pod sub- 
sessile or stipitate, linear-oblong, often falcate, flat and indehiscent in 
the lower part, the apex convex, single-seeded and dehiscing.—W ide- 
climbing shrubs. 
A small genus, the other species all Tropical Asiatic. 
1. S.? africanus, Baker. Stems firm, woody, climbing to 4 
length of 100 ft., the young branches slightly grey-tomentose. Petioles 
4—5 in. long, firm, woody, tomentose; leaflets 8, central one obovate, 
5—6 in. long, 3-4 in. broad, slightly repand upwards, apex blunt, emar- 
ginate, base subcuneate, coriaceous, upper surface glabrous, lower 
finely grey-pubescent all over, veins and veinlets raised. Flowers 1 
ample panicles 1-2 ft. long with narrow racemose branches, the lower 
ones stalked and often half a foot long. Pedicels very short, with two 
small rounded bracteoles at the apex adpressed to the calyx, which 1s 
almost tubular, 2 lines deep, densely adpressed erey-silvery, teeth very 
short, subdeltoid. Corolla scarlet, three times the calyx. Ovary linear, 
sessile, slightly silky. Pod not seen. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann! wie 
This closely resembles the common East Indian Butea parviflora of Roxburgh in its 
ample panicles and the shape and texture of its leaves, but the corolla is smaller, te 
calyx less deeply toothed, and the stamens are monadelphous. 
59. GALACTIA, P. Br.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 538. 
Calyx-teeth acuminate, the two upper ones connate, the lowest rather 
longer than the others. Standard ovate or orbicular, subappendiculate 
or the edges at the base inflexed; wings narrow or obovate, adhering 
to the keel; keel equalling or exceeding the wings, not beaked. Upper 
stamen free, or connate with the others at the middle; anthers uw 
form. Ovary subsessile, multiovulate ; style filiform, beardless ; stigm# 
small, terminal. Pod linear, straight or incurved, compressed, tW0- 
valved, thinly septate between the seeds.—Prostrate or climbing her?* 
or erect shrubs. 
A moderate sized tropical genus, with its head quarters in America. 
1. G, tenuiflora, Wight et Arn. Prod. Fl. Ind. 206. Stems slender, 
firm, wide-twining, finely grey-pubescent. Stipules small, lanceolate, 
deciduous. Petioles slender, 1-2 in. long; leaflets 3, the central on€ 
oblong, 2-2} in. long, both ends rounded; petiolules 3—} in. long i 
lateral ones slightly unequal-sided ; texture subcoriaceous, thinly g?¢ 
