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teeth reaching a third of the way down. Corolla twice the calyx, the 
ee sulphur-yellow, spotted with red; standard round; wings ob- 
ong, both with a long claw; keel shorter. Upper stamen free, the 
rest all connate. Ovary linear, silky, sessile, 4-5-ovulate. Pod un- 
known. 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch! 
78. LONCHOCARPUS, H. B. K.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 
Plant. i. 548. 
Calyx campanulate, the teeth deltoid or rarely lanceolate. Standard 
orbicular, obovate or rarely linear-oblong; wings obliquely oblong or 
falcate, slightly adhering to the keel above the claw; keel arcuate or 
nearly straight, the petals slightly cohering along the back. Upper 
Stamen free at the Pee united with the others at the middle in a 
closed tube; anthers versatile. Ovary more or less stalked, bi- or 
multiovulate ; style incurved, filiform; stigma small, terminal. Pod 
oblong or elongated, flat, membranous or coriaceous, indehiscent, the 
Style-scar terminal, sutures not winged but the upper sometimes late- 
rally dilated. Seeds 1 or few.—Trees or woody climbers, with the habit 
of Millettia. 
A considerable genus. 
American. 
Flowers solitary or in pairs. ; 
Standard densely and permanently argenteous on the back . 1. L. sericeus. 
Standard glabrous on the back. 
Erect trees. : 
Lower teeth of calyx deltoid . . . . ... =. ~~ 2 L. laxiflorus. 
L. pallescens. 
Lower teeth of calyx lanceolate 
Woody climbers. 
Calyx a line deep, grey-silky. . . . . 
Calyx 2 lines deep, densely brown-silky . 
Flowers densely fascicled. 
Standard linear-oblong, a line broad . 
Standard ovate, # inch broad «1. .°. ss 6 <5 fs 
1. L. sericeus, H. B. K.; DC. Prod. ii. 260. An erect tree 30-40 
ft. high, the young branches densely ferruginous-silky. Petioles 1-2 
in. long ; Teahets 7—11, oblong or slightly obovate, 2-3 in. long, blunt, 
the base rounded, subcoriaceous, upper surface glabrous, lower densely 
finely brown-silky. Flowers in dense pendent racemes 4-6 in. long 
on firm woody peduncles nearly as long. Pedicels densely silky, equal- 
ling the calyx, which is 3-4 lines deep, densely brown-silky, almost 
truncate. Flowers often in pairs. Bracts small, silky, rounded. Co- 
rolla a—? in. deep, lilac, the standard round, more than 4 in. broad, 
densely and permanently argenteous on the outside. Pod oblong, 
3—4 in. long, 3-Z in. broad, narrowed at the base to a Jong pedicel 
more or less silky, finally subligneous, the upper suture with a project- 
ing ridge on each side.—Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. Suppl. 88. 2o- 
binia sericea, Poir. L. pywidarius, DC. 1.c. L, tomentosus, Tulasne in 
Arch. Mus. Par. iv. 82. Var. 8 (L. Formosianus, DO. 1.¢.), branches and 
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One species Australian, the others all African and 
. D cyanescens. 
. L. macrostachyus. 
Ct 
6. L. fasciculatus. 
7. L. Barteri. 
