66 SCHOMBURGK’S GUIANA PLANTS. 
persistente subspinescente mucronata, carinali convexa apice 
in alam oblongam v. ovato-cultriformem legumine ipso — 
longiorem producta, intus fungosum uniloculare. Semen — 
unicum, oblongo-subreniforme, radicula brevi incurva.— | 
Frutices scandentes, elati. Folia alterna, ampla, impari- 
pinnata. Panicule terminales ample. Bractez et bracteole | 
lineares, v. subulatze.— 1. C. robustum, (Mart.); foliis glabrius- 
culis, foliolis 13-17 ovato-oblongis basi oblique rotundatis 
supra laevibus subtus glanduloso-punctatis, leguminibus longe: 
spinosis, ala falcato-oblonga.— 2. C. tomentosum, (Guillem. | 
Ms.) ; foliolis 13-17 ovato-oblongis basi oblique truncato-cor- 
datis supra pubescentibus subtus rachi et panicula dense 
ferrugineo-tomentosis, leguminibus breviter spinosis, ala late 
falcato-ovata.— Brasilia, Guillemin. Caxoeiras do Campos, 
P. Claussen. . | 
175. Drepanocarpus inundatus, Mart.—Benth.. Ann. Mus. 
Vind. II. p. 96.—Falls of the Essequibo and Rupunoony.- 
Schomburgk, n. 520, also n. 327, the specimens in fruit, v. 
not those in flower. French Guiana, Perottet. On the Rio 
Negro. Martius. On the Amazon. Péppig. 
176. D. feroz, Mart.—Benth. Ann. Mus. Vind. ll. p. 96.— 5 
British Guiana.  Schomburgk, n. 267.— In these specimens, — 
as in Martius’, the leaflets are above an inch long, and under 
twenty in number. £z 
The D. lunatus, of which I have specimens both from the 
West Indies and from tropical Africa, belongs to my first — 
section, not to the second where I had erroneously placed it. r 
177. Macherium affine, Benth. Ann. Mus. Vind. M. p. 98. — 
—A tree from thirty to forty feet high. Woods near the — 
Parime and Conocon mountains. Schomburgk, n. 78. E 
No. 357, of Gardner's Organ mountain collection, is à. 
Macherium, allied to M. sericiflorum, (Vog.); but apparently — 
new. a 
178. M. leiophyllum, Benth. l. c. p. 100.—Nissolia leiophylla, —— 
DC. Prodr. ll. p. 258.—Sides of rivers, British Guiana; where 
it is known by the name of Boheery Die, or Bat-flower- 
Schomburgk, n. 482. French Guiana, Perrottet—The pod 
