100 LEGUMINOSAE. (Strongylodon. 
On dry rocky hills and plains ed be islands, to a height of about 1000 ft., much more 
common “former! y than now. Nat.name: «Wiliwili». The tree loses its geht in late summer, 
eported fr 
ardly be a doubt, that Nadéaud’s Tahitian species is ated ase the present one. 
11. STRONGYLODON, Vogel. 
Calyx-teeth short, broad, obtuse. Standard ovate-oblong, acute, recurved 
or even reflexed, with 2 callose crests on the inner side above the claw. 
Wings much shorter than the standard and adherent to the keel, which 
is as long as the standard, much curved, beaked, with its two petals 
connate. Vexillar stamen quite free; anthers uniform. Ovary stipitate, 
with 1 or few ovules. Style very long, filiform, beardless; stigma terminal, 
minute. Pod obliquely ovate-oblong, 2- ates , the valves convex and 
coriaceous. Seeds large and thick, suborbicular, suspended by a broad 
and flat funis and half surrounded by a linear, not strophiolate rhaphe. 
Cotyledons thick, consolidated. — Tall woody twiners. Leaves pinnately 
3-foliolate, stipellate. Flowers showy, red, fascicled on long axillary 
aye e peduncles. Bracts minute; Pa Ae at the base of the calyx. 
us of 2 species, one growing in the Philipines, with perhaps a third one from 
the ew "Hebrides 
S. luci idum, Seem. Fl. Vit. p. 61. — A tall woody twiner with 
herbaceous Sone es, sibiectin bl is Leaflets membranous, round- 
ish, ovate to oblong-ovate, 2'/2—5 2—3', en petiolules of 2—4”, 
iphnerved, “euieaaia glossy, the ree lower ones uneven-sided, the 
pre stipellae half as long as the petiolules; the petiole 2!/2—4', with 
small ovate or deltoid persistent stipules at its base. Racemes drooping, 
: Sead 10—18’ long. Flowers bright scarlet, generally | in fascicles of 
long, the bracts at their base short conical, wart-like 
the base of the calyx ovate obtuse, 1/ long and soon caducous. Calyx 
campanulate, 4”, the 2 upper teeth connate. Standard: reflexed on a 
short claw, 15“ long and 6” broad. Wings and keel on longer (3“) claws, 
the former less than half the length of the standard, oblong, obtuse, the 
keel falciform acute. Ovary glabrous, with 2 oiies Pod chartaceous, 
transversely rugose, obliquely ovate or subrhomboidal, complanate, with 
both sutures acute, 3'/2—4' long and 2‘ broad, on a stipes of 1/2’. Seeds 
. 67. — 
Rhynchosia lucida, DC. — S. ruber, Misa in Linnaea, X, 585. — A. Gray, 
Bot. U. 8. E. E. p. 446, pl. 48. — Mucuna altissima, Hook. & Arn. Bot. 
Beech. p. 81. — Mrs. Sinclair, pl. 5 
All islands, in dense bore: at elevations hone 3000 ft., festooning trees; most common 
in Hamakua and Hilo, Hawaii. Nat. names: «<Kaiwi» and <Nukuiwi> (from «iwi», the 
name of a red bird, and jae bill). pipet of great beauty, worthy of-cultivation. 
The species occurs also in Tahiti, the Viti Islands and Ceylon 
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