236 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). _ [ Ecastaphyillum. 
74, ECASTAPHYLLUM, Rich.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 
Plant. i. 045. 
Calyx with the two upper teeth broader and the lowest rather longer 
than the others. Standard broad-ovate or orbicular; wings Sale: 
keel slightly incurved, obtuse, its petals connate at the apex on the back. 
Stamens all connate in a sheath slit above, or the upper one free or 
absent, or the sheath also slit below or the lowest sometimes also free; 
anthers small, erect, the cells dehiscing by a small apical slit. Ovary 
stalked, biovulate ; style almost straight; stigma small, terminal. Pod 
orbicular or broad-oblong, flat or corky, indehiscent, 1-seeded, sub- 
sal at the upper suture.— Loosely branched or sarmentose 
shrubs. 
A small genus; all the species American ; two also West African. 
Poles ean a eee 
Po a a ee 
1. E. Brownei, Pers.; DC. Prod. ii. 420. A shrub 12-20 ft. high, 
with firm woody terete purplish-black branches, thinly silky when 
young. Petioles 4-8 in. long, firm, woody; leaves simple, oblong, 
3-4 in. long by about half as broad, blunt or pointed, the base rounded, 
texture coriaceous, both sides glabrous, or the lower when young thinly 
silky. Flowers in small cymose panicles 1-2 in. long in the axils of the 
leaves. Pedicels a line long. Calyx campanulate, } in. deep, thinly 
silky, the teeth short, deltoid. Corolla white, more than twice as long 
as the calyx. Stamens 10, in two bundles of five each. Pod nearly 
round, short-stalked, 1-1 in. broad, finally 1-3 in. thick, subligneous. 
—Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 232; Benth. Lc. 50. Amerimnum Sieber, 
ae in Sieber Pl. Exsicc. 86.  Pterocarpus Ecastaphyllum, Linn. Sp. 
OX. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Senegambia, Sieber! Perrottet ! and 
others. Guinea proper, Vogel! Barter! Mylne! Fernando Po, Mann! 
Lower Guinea. Uongo, Prof. Smith! 
In Tropical America, from Florida to South Brazil. 
2. E. monetaria, Pers.; DC. Prod. ii. 421. Stems firm, woody, 
terete, wide-climbing, glabrous. Petioles } in. or less long; leaves 
rarely simple, 7—8 in. long, 3-4 in. broad ; leaflets usually 3-5, oblong, 
4—6 in. long, the base rounded, the point narrowed, coriaceous, both sides 
glabrous. Flowers in small sans a in the axils of the leaves. Calyx 
and corolla asin Sp. 1, but the stamens 9 only. Pod roundish, oblong, 
blunt at both ends, 1-14 in. long, not so much thickened as in the pre- 
ceding, dark brown, subligneous. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Senegambia, Heudelot! ee 
In America, from the West Indies to Brazil. According to Bentham, 1. c. E. Richara 
and Plumieri, Pers., E. Berterii, DC., E. hygrophilum and nitidum, Mart., and E. 
Benthamianum, Miq., are not distinct, 
