270 • XI" LEGUMlNOSiE. [FlemiiKjia. 



66. ABHUS, Linn. 



* Calyx campanulate, truncate or shortly and broadly toothed. Standard 

 ovate, the short claw adhering to the base of the staminal tube; keel much 

 curved, the petals united from the base, often longer than the wings. Stamens 

 9 united in a sheath open on the upper side, the upper one deficient. 

 •Ovary sessile, with several ovules; style short, incurved; stigma terminal. 

 Pod oblong or linear, flat, 2-valved, with cellular partitions between the seeds. 

 Seeds not strophiolate. — Steins usually twining or trailing, woody at the base. 

 Leaves abruptly pinnate, with several pairs of small leaflets, without stipellse, 

 the common petiole ending in a short point. Eacemes terminal or axillary, 

 the flowers in clusters on lateral thickened nodes. Bracts minute or none; 

 bracteoles none. 



A small genus dispersed over the tropical regions both of tlie New and the Old A^orlJ, 

 the only Australian species extending over the whole range. It is in some measure iutcr- 



meJiate between the tribes Viciea^ Phaseolea^ and Dalbergle<je, 



1. A.] 



pubescent, 

 usually about 



Glabrous or slightly 



Leaflets in 7 to 10 pairs, oblong-elliptical or rarely obovate, 

 L \ in. long. Eacemes with 1 or 2 leaves, or at least with a leaf- 

 less pair of stipules below the flowers, the flowering part 1 in. or rather more 

 in length, the nodes rather crowded. Flowers pink, or rarely white or pur- 

 ple, 5 to 6 lines long, the keel narrow, longer than the wings. Pod sessile, 

 1 to 1^ in. long, 6 to 7 lines broad, almost squared at both ends and at- 

 tached by the inner angle, glabrous or scaly outside. Seeds usually black 

 with a large scarlet spot, sometimes brown with a darker spot, or white and 

 unspotted.— Lam. lUustr. t. 608. f. 1 ; W, and Arn. Prod. i. 236 ; A. paacu 

 floras, Desv. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ix. 418 ; A. sqnamulosas, E. Mey. Couim. PL 

 Afr. Austr. 126, 



N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, i2. Browriy Henne. 



Queensland. Burdckia Expedition aud Port Deuisoa, Fltzalan, Very common m 

 India and the ArcLipclago, exteudiug iuto tropical and southern Africa, aud frequent also, 

 but perhaps naturalized, in several parts of S. America. 



Tribe VITL Dalbergie/E.— Trees or woody clim1)ers. Leaves pinnnte, 

 with 5 or more leaflets or sometimes one large leaflet, very rarely 3. Stipends 

 none, or small and subulate. Stamens all united in a sheath or tube or ii>^^ 



Pod iudebisceat. 



African. 



67. DALBERGIA, Linn, 



Calyx-teeth short, the lowest rather longer. Standard obovate or orbicular^; 

 keel obtuse. Stamens all united in a slieath open on the upper side, or m 

 equal bundles, or reduced to 9, the upper one deficient; anthers s"^^ | 

 erect, didymous, opening at the top. Ovary stipitate, with 1 or few ovule^; 

 style incurved, with a terminal stigma. Pod thin and flat, oblong, ^^"*i^|' jg 

 rarely falcate, indehisceiit, the margins neither thickened nor winged. bt'C 



