Tas, 8494, 
STRONGYLODON psevpo.ucives. 
Madagascar, a 
Lreuminosar. Tribe PHASEOLEAE. 
StroneyLonon, Vogel; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 532. 
Strongylodon pseudolucidus, Crab; species S. /ucido, Seem. proxima bractcis 
bracteolisque multo majoribus, floribus minoribus recedit. 
Frutex scandens; ramuli glabri, striatuli. Folia trifoliolata, ad 12 cm. longa, 
petiolo 7-8 cm. longo supra canaliculato glabro suffulta; stipulae late 
deltoideae, circiter 4 mm. longae et late, virides, distincte plurinervatae ; 
foliola lateralia valde inaequilatera, latere altero dimidiatim ovata, basi 
rotundata, altero dimidiatim suboblonga, basi: late cuneata vel rotundato- 
cuneata, ad 8°5 em. longa et 5 em. lata, terminalia a lateralibus circiter 
3 cm. distantia, ovata, basi latissime cuneata vel rotundata, ad 9 em. longa 
et 5°5 cm. lata, omnia apice acuminata, mucronulata, glabra, viridia, 
membranacea, e basi trinervata, nervis secundariis (e costa ortis) 4-5 cum — 
nervulis pagina superiore conspicuis inferiore prominulis vel subpromi- 
nulis; petioluli 5 mm. longi, pilis albis brevibus hic illic instructi; stipellae 
lineari-lanceolatae, acutae, petiolulis subaequales. Jacemi axillares, ad 
7 em. longi, pedunculo communi 5 cm. longo glabro suffulti; nodi 
conspicui, flores tres gerentes; bracteae hyalinae, fugaces, circiter 5 mm. 
longae, brevissime ciliatae; pedicelli ad 2°5 cm. longi, glabri, summo apice 
bracteolis duobus hyalinis rotundatis ad 4 mm. longis brevissime ciliatis 
ante anthesin deciduis instructi. Calyx cylindricus, circiter 8 mm. longus, 
lobis brevibus rotundatis ciliolatis. Vexillum sub anthesin reflexum, 
oblongo-lanceolatum, apice emarginulatum, basi latere utroque auricu- 
latum, 22 mm. longum, fere 12 mm. Jatum, ungui circiter 4 mm. longo 
suffultum ; alae 12 mm. longae, fere 4°5 mm. latae, ungui 9 mm. longo 
suffultae ; carina 2 cm. longa, 6 mm. lata, ungui 8 mm, longo adjecto. 
Stamen vVexillare liberum. Ovarium 3 mm. longum, stipite circiter 1 em. 
longo suffultum, uni- vel bi-ovulatum; stylus gracilis, circiter 15 mm. 
Jongus.—S. ruber, Thw. Enum. Pl. Zeyl. p. 89; Baker in Hook. f. Fi. Brit. 
Ind. vol. ii. p. 191; Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. Ixvi. pars 2, p. 411; 
non Vogel.—W. G. CRarB. “ 
The Leguminous genus Strongylodon is widely spread 
from the Mascarenes to Melanesia with, however, two more 
or less distinct centres in Madagascar and in the Philippines, 
in each of which areas three or four endemic species appear 
to occur. The oldest of the known species is one which is 
widely spread in Polynesia from the Sandwich Islands to 
Fiji, first described in 1786 by the younger Forster as 
Glycine lucida, and in 1836 treated by Vogel as the basis of 
this distinct genus undér the name S. ruber. Thirty years 
later Seemann again dealt with the plant under the more 
Mary, 1913. 
