Dalhrnjia!] XL. leguminos^. ' 271 



single or few and distant along the centre of the pod, very flat and renifornK 

 — Trees or Avoody climbers. Leaves pinnate, without stipellae, the leaflets 

 usually alternate. Flowers small, usually numerous in axillary or terminal 

 dichotomous cymes or irregular panicles. Bracts and bracteoles usually 

 minute. 



A large genus dispersed over the tropical regions of the New and the Old World. The 

 only Aubtraliau species has also beeu found in New Guiuea. 



i. D, densa^ Benth, in Hook. Loud, Joiirn, ii. 217. A small tree, with 

 tEe branches sometimes weak or climbing. Leaflets 7 to 15, broadly oblong, 

 or oval-elliptical, very obtuse, \ to \\ in. long, glabrous above, minutely pu- 

 bescent underneath. Panicles or clusters of raeemes, under 2 in. long, not 

 much branched. Flowers scarcely above 2 lines long. Calyx nearly glabrous, 

 about 1 line long, the teetb very sliort and broad. Claws of the petals as 

 long as the calyx. Ovary glabrous; style rather slender. Pod very thin, 

 obtuse, \\ to nearly 3 in. long, about \ 'in. wide, slightly reticulate along the 

 centre, on a stipes of about 2 lines. 



Queensland. Prince of Wales Islands, It, Brown; Albany IslauJ, V. ffilL Also 

 in New Guinea. The Australian specimens have rather more leaflets than the ISew Guinea 

 ones, Lut do not otherwise differ. The species is allied to the common B, tamanndijolia, 

 I^oib, from E. India and the Archipelago, and has the same pod. but much lai-gcr broader 

 and fewer leaflets and smaller flowers. 



68, LONCHOCARPUS, H. B. and K, 



Calyx truncate or very broadly and shortly toothed. Standard oi-blcular 

 obovate or rarely oblong^ wings usually slightly adhering to the keel ; keel 

 nearly straight or incurved, obtuse. Upper stamen free at the base, con- 

 iiate with the others iu the middle ; anthers uniform. Ovary with 2 or more 

 ovules; style incurved, stigma small, terminal. Pod very flat oblong or 

 Jroadly linear, thin or rather thick and coriaceous, indehiscent, the upper oi 

 both margins sometimes thickened or bordered by a prominent nerve, but not 

 ;;;i»>ged- Seeds usnally 1 or 2, rarely more, flat, reniform or orbicular.— 

 Trees or woody climbers. Leaves pinnate; leaflets usually few, opposite, 



S l^i'g^ 



With a terminal odd one ; stlpelltB none or small and setaceous. _ ^ 

 small or none. Racemes or raceme-like panicles axillary or forinin|_ 

 toiiiinal panicles. Flowers violet purple or white, usually m pairs or n clu - 

 ters along the rhachis. Bracts small, deciduous ; bracteoles also small, but 

 often more persistent. 



A numerous genus i 



oily Australian snpfios 



^-lan species 

 species, generically di 



" er that of dassa. In tiowe.^ Lonchoearpn. cannot always ^' ;}f'^^}^^JZ'^^,i, 

 ^tiuMi the pod is always thiuuer and iudekiscent, the pod aloue distinguishmg the geuus 



'erris and Ponyam'ia. 



. 1- L. Blackii, BeutL A tall woody climber, the young t>ianchc J^^ 

 f«l'age rusty-pubesJent. at length glabrous. Leaflets 7 o 11, «^'; J' f;«^*'j 

 «";! obtusely acuminate. 1 to°li or rarely above 2 m. long « ^ w >f 

 Petiolules, with small se aceous stipellse. Rowers dui-k purple, m long loose 



