240 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



sometimes a little connate), imbricated in aestivation. Petals unequal : 

 standard elongated acute, recurved or reflexed, furnished with an 

 appendage within above claw ; wings shorter, slightly adhering to 

 keel ; keel curved beaked, petals connate. Stamens 1 0, 2-adelphous 

 (9-1) ; anthers uniform. Grermen stipitate, pauci-, usually 1-2-ovu- 

 late ; style slender beardless ; apex capitate stigmatiferous. Legume 

 stipitate, obliquely ovate-oblong ; valves 2, convex coriaceous. 

 Seed thick orbicular exarillate, half surrounded by linear hilum. — 

 Shrubs or undershrubs, twining glabrous ; leaves pinnate 3-foliolate 

 stipellate ; stipules 2, lateral small ; flowers 1 fascicled in simple or 

 oftener branched elongated axillary racemes ; rachis of fascicle 

 node-like ; bracts small or minute, bractlets minute orbiculate, 

 very caducous {Ceylon, South Sea Islands-). 



22. Rudolphia W. 3 — Flowers almost those of Brythrina. Calyx 

 coriaceous, gamosepalous to a considerable height, tubular sub-2- 

 labiate, 2 superior lobes connate into one, entire or shortly emar- 

 ginate or cleft at apex ; lowest a little longer, long acuminate, 

 somewhat arched ; 2 lateral much smaller or hardly visible. Corolla 

 and stamens of Enjlhrina. Germen sessile or stipitate, cc -ovulate ; 

 style usually thickened at middle, hooked beardless at apex ; summit 

 capitate stigmatiferous. Legume surrounded at base by persistent 

 calyx, elongated piano-compressed, shortly acuminate or mucronate 

 at apex, thinly stuffed within, 2-valved; valves finally twisted. Seeds 

 flat. — Twining herbs ; leaves 1-foliolate articulated stipellate ; stipules 

 narrow deciduous ; flowers 4 subaxillary racemose ; fascicles alternate ; 

 rachis of fascicle node-like ; bracts and bractlets narrow {West Indies'). 



23. Mucuna Adams/' — Receptacle cupuliform, lined by a disk ; 

 disk somewhat projecting round gynaeceum, 10-lobed. Calyx thick, 

 teeth very unequal ; 2 superior quite connate ; lowest longer than 

 the others or about equal to superior. Corolla usually large; 



1 " Red, handsome." 6 Fam. des PL, ii. 325.— DC, Prodr., ii. 



2 A. Gray, Unit. States Expl, Exped., Bot., 404.— Endl., Gen., n. 6665.— B. H., Gen., 533, 

 445, t. 48, 49.— WAiP.,12ep.,i.769;^«».,iv.559. n. 205.— Citta Louk., Fl. Coch., 456.— ? Met- 



3 In Neue Schrift. Ges. Nat. Perl., iii. 41. — cranthus LOTJE., loc. cit., 400. — Stizolobium 

 DC, Prodr., ii. 414 (part.). — Endl., Gen., n. Peus., Syn., ii. 298. — Negretia R. & Pav., 

 6669 (nee K.).— B. H., Gen., 532, n. 202. Prodr., 98, t. 2\.— Carpopogon Roxb., Fl. Ind., 



4 Red. iii. 283. — Macroceratides Radd., ex Endl. — 



5 Species 2 or 3. W., Spec, iii. 918. — Vahl, PiUt ra Endl., Prodr. Fl. Norf., 91. — Zooph- 

 Ecl. Atner., ii. 41, t. 30. — ? Plum., PI. Amer., thalmus Be. (ex Adans.). 



ed. Burm., t. 102, fig. 1. 



