264 XLVII. § CiESALPINIE^E (OLIVER). 



upper smaller petal with a yellow spot. Legumes obliquely- or falcate- 

 oblong apiculate f-ljin. long, 4-5 lines broad, usually 3-4-seeded, 

 shortly and rather densely setulose and gland-dotted. Seeds much 

 compressed obovate or quadrate- oblong, smooth or slightly transversely 

 striate. Cotyledons flat, deeply emarginate at base, and closely sheath- 

 ing the radicles. — Melanosticta Burchellii, DC. Mem. Legum. t. 69. 

 Harv. Thes. Cap. t. ii. 



South Central. Koobie to N. Shaw valley, Baines ! 



Collected by Dr. Burchell, south of the Tropic. A near ally, M. Sander soni, Harv., 

 grows in the Transvaal. 



5. PTEROLOBIUM, R. Br. ; Benth. et Hook. f. 

 Gen. Plant, i. 567. 



Calyx-tube very short, lobes 5, imbricate, the posterior rather 

 larger and embracing the rest. Petals 5, nearly uniform, spreading, 

 oblanceolate or obovate. Stamens 10, nearly uniform ; anthers uni- 

 form, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary sessile or shortly stipitate, 

 1-2-ovulate ; style rather short in the African species, with a truncate 

 concave stigma. Fruit samaroid, obliquely-oblong, 1 -seeded ; wing 

 produced beyond the seed-cavity, thickened on the upper margin with 

 the scar of the style at or very little below the obtuse or acute apex. 

 " Seed pendulous, flattened, exalbuminous ; radicle short, straight." — 

 Shrubs or trees often scandent, armed more or less with recurved 

 prickles. Leaves bipinnate ; leaflets numerous, small. Flowers whitish 

 in paniculate racemes. Bracts very early deciduous. 



A small genus of the Old World Tropics. The following appears to be endemic, 

 though with a near Indian ally. 



1. P. lacerans, R. Br. in Salt, Abyss. App. 64. A shrub or small 

 tree. Branches armed with short recurved stipular and sparsely scat- 

 tered prickles ; extremities minutely puberulous. Pinnae 8-12 pairs, 

 with recurved prickles on the rachis at their insertion ; leaflets 9-14 

 pairs, oblong, obtuse or subretuse, glabrous or pubescent at least under- 

 neath, venation obscure, 3-4J lines long, on very short petiolules or 

 subsessile. Flowers small whitish in many-flowered rather densely 

 spicate puberulous racemes collected in terminal panicles overtopping 

 the leaves; pedicels patent, often clustered, 1^-3 lines long. Petals 

 nearly uniform oblanceolate but slightly exceeding the calyx-lobes. 

 Ovary very shortly stipitate, 1-2-ovulate; style short and rather thick; 

 stigma truncate, concave. Fruit obliquely oblanceolate-oblong usually 

 obtuse with the scar of the style immediately under the apex, 1J- 2in. 

 long r wing submembranous, with the upper margin thickened, 6-8 lines 

 broad. — Quartinia dbyssinica, Rich, in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2, xiv. 260, 

 t. 14. P. abyssinieum, Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 246. Mimosa? Kantuffa, Bruce, 

 DC. Prod. ii. 431 ; Bruce, Abyss. Atlas, t. 14; Filla'a? Brucei, Fres. 

 in Flora, 1839, 54. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Salt! Schimper! and others. 



Nearly allied to the Indian P. indicum, Kich. I.e. (Ccesalpinia lacerans, Roxb.), the 



