LEQUMIN0B2E-C E ' ILPINI1 I J 



dinally rimose; in 2 stamens alternating with standard longei 

 larger fertile; in 8 others smaller; sometimes sterile, more rarely 

 " enl irely absent." Germen shortly stipitate, 2 ovulate ; style slender, 

 stigma small terminal. Fruit shortly stipitate, suborbicular or 

 ovate, compressed, prickly outside, 2-valved. Seed I, descendin 

 funicle dilated at hilum into an aril; embryo exalbuminous fleshy. 

 — Unarmed trees; leaves paripinnate; leaflets few coriaceou 

 stipules minute or ; bracts and bractlets scale-like caducous (Tro 

 pical Asia). Sec \>. 1 39. 



68. Cryptoscpalum Benth. e Calyx tube very short, lined by a 

 disk: segments I, minute scale-like. Petal I, s< isile orbiculafce. 

 Stamens 3 ; filaments short; anthers oblong; cell dehi cing longitu 

 dinally. Germen shortly stipitate, free 2-ovulate; style filiform; 

 stigma terminal truncate. Legume .... ?" A small unarmed 

 tree ; leaves paripinnate ; leaves I 2-jugate coriac< ous oblique, 

 lowest rather smaller ; minute; flowi in short a illary 



racemes; bracti at base of young ra ' liki imbricated, aftei 



deciduous, on raceme minute caducous, bractld rathei lai 

 concave valvate including bud (Tropical Africa). See p. I 10. 



VIII. DIMORPHANDBEiE. 



69. Dimorphandra Schot , i Flo i cle very 



short, rather concave. I) campanulate, evenly 5-lobed or 



5-toothed. Petals '■>. rly equal, imbricated; 



\i>- t petal inn< i mo I 10, free subhy] 5 



oppositipetalous equal free, a introrsi '-celled J-rimose ; 5 



alternipetalous sterile, either sterile, m b clubbed at apex (Eudi 

 morphandraf Mora), or d thicl unevenly obpyramidal 



cohering into a body, more or I 1 projecting fertile stamens and 

 deciduous on anthi Pocillum). Germen central, shortly stipita 

 oo -ovulate ; style very short or ni itigma mall terminal. 



Legume elongated compr< "I coriaceous — subligneo 

 endocarp woody, sometimi parable from exocarp I 



e between eeds, Seeds oi biculai or elongati d, emb 

 i albuminous; radicle short straight included. — Unarmed tre 

 leaves pinnate or 2-pinnat< I pul minute or 0; flow all in 



