Ostryocarpus.] xlvii. § papilionaceje (baker). 241 



teeth reaching a third of the way down. Corolla twice the calyx, the 

 petals sulphur-yellow, spotted with red ; standard round ; wings ob- 

 long-, both with a long claw ; keel shorter. Upper stamen free, the 

 rest all connate. Ovary linear, silky, sessile, 4-5-ovulate. Pod un- 

 known. 



Lower Guinea. Angola, Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch! 



78. LONCHOCARPUS, H. B. K. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 

 Plant, i. 548. 



Calyx campanulate, the teeth deltoid or rarely lanceolate. Standard 

 orbicular, obovate or rarely linear-oblong ; wings obliquely oblong or 

 falcate, slightly adhering to the keel above the claw ; keel arcuate or 

 nearly straight, the petals slightly cohering along the back. Upper 

 stamen free at the base, united with the others at the middle in a 

 closed tube ; anthers versatile. Ovary more or less stalked, bi- or 

 multiovulate ; style incurved, filiform ; stigma small, terminal. Pod 

 oblong or elongated, flat, membranous or coriaceous, indehiscent, the 

 style-scar terminal, sutures not winged but the upper sometimes late- 

 rally dilated. Seeds 1 or few — Trees or woody climbers, with the habit 

 of Millettia. 



A considerable genus. One species Australian, the others all African and 

 American. 

 Flowers solitary or in pairs. 



Standard densely and permanently argenteous on the back . 1 L. sericeus. 

 Standard glabrous on the back. 

 Erect trees. 



Lower teeth of calyx deltoid 2. L.lariflorus. 



Lower teeth of calyx lanceolate 3. L. pallescens. 



Woody climbers. 



Calyx a line deep, grey-silky 4. L. cyanescens. 



Calyx 2 lines deep, densely brown-silky 5. L. macrostachyus. 



Flowers densely fascicled. 



Standard linear-oblong, a line broad 6. L. fascirulatus. 



Standard ovate, f inch broad 7. L. Barteri. 



1. L. sericeus, H. B. K. ; DC. Prod. ii. 260. An erect tree 80-40 

 ft. high, the young branches densely ferruginous-silky. Petioles 1-2 

 in. long; leaflets 7-11, oblong or slightly obovate, 2-8 in. long, blunt, 

 the base rounded, subcoriaceous, upper surface glabrous, lower densely 

 finely brown-silky. Flowers in dense pendent racemes 4-6 in. long 

 on firm woody peduncles nearly as long. Pedicels densely silky, equal- 

 ling the calyx, which is 3-4 lines deep, densely brown-silky, almost 

 truncate. Flowers often in pairs. Bracts small, silky, rounded. Co- 

 rolla -|-f in. deep, lilac, the standard round, more than -J in. broad, 

 densely and permanently argenteous on the outside. Pod oblong, 

 3-4 in. long, |-| in. broad, narrowed at the base to a long pedicel 

 more or less silky, finally subligneous, the upper suture with a project- 

 ing ridge on each side. — Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. Suppl. 88. lio- 

 binia sericea, Poir. L. pyxidarius, DC. 1. c. L. tomcntosus, Tulasne in 

 Arch. Mus. Par. iv. 82. Var. (L. Formosionus. DC. 1. c), branches and 



