264 XLVII. § CHSALPINIEE (OLIVER). _ [ Hoffmanseggia. 
upper smaller petal with a yellow spot. Legumes obliquely- or falcate- 
splene apiculate 2-11 in. long, 4-5 lines broad, usually 3—4-seeded, 
shortly and rather densely setulose and gland-dotted. Seeds much 
compressed obovate or quadrate-oblong, smooth or slightly transversely 
striate. Cotyledons flat, deeply emarginate at base, and closely sheath- 
ing the radicles—Melunosticta Burchellit, DC. Mém. Legum, t. 69. 
Harv. Thes. Cap. t. ii. 
South Central. Koobie to N. Shaw valley, Baines! 
Collected by Dr. Burchell, south of the Tropic. A near ally, IZ. Sandersoni, Harv., 
grows in the Transvaal. : 
5. PTEROLOBIUM, R. Br.; Benth. et Hook. f. 
Gen. Plant. i. 567. 
Calyx-tube very short, lobes 5, imbricate, the posterior rather 
larger and embracing the rest. Petals 5, nearly uniform, spreading, 
oblanceolate or obovate. Stamens 10, nearly uniform; anthers uni- 
form, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary sessile or shortly stipitate, 
1—2-ovulate ; style rather short in the African species, with a truncate 
concave stigma. Fruit samaroid, obliquely-oblong, 1-seeded; wing 
produced beyond the seed-cavity, thickened on the upper margin with 
the scar of the style at or very little below the obtuse or acute apex. 
“Seed pendulous, flattened, exalbuminous ; radicle short, straight.”— 
Shrubs or trees often scandent, armed more or less with recurved 
prickles. Leaves bipinnate ; leaflets numerous, small. Flowers whitish 
in paniculate racemes. Bracts very early deciduous. 
A small genus of the Old World Tropics. The following appears to be endemic, 
though with a near Indian ally. 
1. P. lacerans, FR. Br. in Salt, Abyss. App. 64. A shrub or small 
tree. Branches armed with short recurved stipular and sparsely scat- 
tered prickles ; extremities minutely puberulous. Pinne 8-12 pairs, 
with recurved prickles on the rachis at their insertion; leaflets 9-14 
pairs, oblong, obtuse or subretuse, glabrous or pubescent at least under- 
neath, venation obscure, 3—44 lines long, on very short petiolules or 
subsessile. Flowers small whitish in many-flowered rather densely 
spicate puberulous racemes collected in terminal panicles overtopping 
the leaves; pedicels patent, often clustered, 14—3lines long. Petals 
nearly uniform oblanceolate but slightly exceeding the calyx-lobes. 
Ovary very shortly stipitate, 1—2-ovulate ; style short and rather thick ; 
stigma truncate, concave. Fruit obliquely oblanceolate-oblong usually 
obtuse with the scar of the style immediately under the apex, 14-2 in. 
long, wing submembranous, with the upper margin thickened, 6—8 lines 
broad.— Quartinia abyssinica, Rich. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Sér. 2. xiv. 260, 
t. 14. P. abyssinicum, Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 246. Mimosa? Kantuffa, Bruce, 
DC. Prod. ii. 431; Bruce, Abyss. Atlas, t. 14; Fillea? Brucei, Fres. 
in Flora, 1839, 54. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Salt! Schimper! and others. 
Nearly allied to the Indian P. indiewm, Rich. l.c. (Casalpinia lacerans, Roxb.), the 
