LEG UMIN0S2E-PAPILI0NA GEM. 239 



glandular, often 12-lobed, 1 0-furrowed. Calyx companulate or 

 sacciform ; mouth oblique truncate, quite entire or sometimes cleft 

 and 1-2-lobate, more rarely minutely toothed, very rarely more 

 deeply, unequally or nearly equally, 5-toothed. Petals very un- 

 equal ; standard large or elongated, erect or patent, sometimes 

 falcate, raised on a short or long claw, without appendages at base ; 

 wings short or very short, more rarely 0; keel smaller than stan- 

 dard, longer or shorter than wings ; all petals free or more or less 

 connate dorsally. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous ; 9-connate at middle; 

 vexillary stamen free, or connate close to base with remainder ; 

 anthers uniform. Grermen stipitate ; ovules co ; style curved beard- 

 less ; apex subulate, stigma minute terminal. Legume stipitate, 

 nearly straight or falcate, linear, tapering at apex and base, compressed 

 or subterete, more rarely flat at base, sinuous or constricted between 

 seeds, sometimes 2-valved, sometimes dehiscing as a follicle along 

 superior suture, more rarely hardly dehiscent, seeds oblong, exaril- 

 late, uniform in colour or particoloured ; hilum lateral, oblong or 

 linear. — Trees or erect shrubs, thick, more rarely subherbaceous ; 

 twigs often prickly ; leaves alternate pinnate 2-foliolate ; stipels 

 gland-like ; stipules small ; inflorescence racemose ; racemes axillary 

 leafless, or terminal bearing leaves at base ; flowers' solitary or in twos 

 or threes in axil of each bract ; bracts alternate'- {All hot region^). 



21. Strongylodon Vog. 4 — Receptacle slightly concave, lined by a 

 disk ; disk somewhat projecting round stalk of germ en, shortly 

 toothed, calyx gamosepalous ; teeth 5, nearly equal (2 superior 



1 Scarlet, purplish, or greenish yellow, usually Lmdov., 103), including the species whose calyx 



handsome. is not spathe-like. 



- In Bentham's opinion {Gen., 532) the fol- 3 Species about 25. J acq., Hort. Schombr., 



lowing genera, proposed by various authors, t. 216, 406; Fragm., t. 119. — Roxb., PL Coro- 



scarcely form well-defined sections of this genus : mand,, t. 219, 220. — Peesl, Symbol., t. 46, 47, 



(a) Micropteryx Waif, (in Linncea, xxiii. 739 ; 68. — Wight, Icon,, t. 58, 247. — Bbot., in 



Ann., ii. 425), keel gamopetalous, overlapping Trans. Linn. Soc, xiv. t. 10-12. — Sweet, Brit. 



dwarf wings. — (b) Duchassaingia Walt. (loc. Fl. Gard., t. 142, 214. — Benth., in Mart. Fl. 



cit., 741), keel gamopetalous, claw of standard Bras., Papil., 172 ; Fl. Austral,, ii. 253. — 



long.— (c) Stenotropis Hassk. (Retzia, i. 183), Habv. & Sond., Fl. Cap., ii. 236. — Haby., 



petals of keel free, calyx sometimes cleft. — (d) Thes. Cap., t. 61, 62. — GATOICH., in Freyc. 



CMrocalyx Meissn. (in Hook. Journ., ii. 97), Toy. Lot., t. 114. — A. Run., Fl. Abyss. T 



teeth of calyx rather long, distinct. — (e) Flypa- t. 41. — Bakeb, in Olir. Fl. Trap. .(/):, ii. 181. 



phorus Hassk. (Jlort. Bog., cd. nov., 197), — Sot. Reg., t. 313, 389, 736, 750, 12 16, i:?27, 



legume fiat, empty for a considerable distance 1617.— Lot. Mag., t. :s77, 2161, 2 131, 3227, 



from base, containing seeds at apex, turgid over 323 4. — Walp., Rep.,\. 768; ii. 901; v. 535; 



seeds, 2-valved. — (f) Maerocymbiwm Walp. (in Ann., ii. 423 ; iv. 557. 



Flora [1853], 149), standard (called sphalma) 4 In Linncea, x. 585.— E.\di, Gen., 66 



shorter than calyx. — (g) Xyphantus Raeiit. (Fl. B. II., Gen., 532, n. 203. 



