242 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



25. Cochlianthus Benth. 1 — " Calyx ; 2 superior teeth connate into 

 1, nearly entire ; 3 lateral smaller; lowest longer. Standard broadly 

 ovate, furnished with inflexed auriculate appendages ; wings oblong, 

 slightly overtopping standard ; keel linear spirally twisted, not over- 

 topping wings, Vexillary stamen free ; remainder connate ; anthers 

 uniform. Germen very shortly stipitate, oc -ovulate; style filiform 

 beardless ; stigma peltate dilated. Legume linear curved, somewhat 

 flattened, 2-valved, obscurely septate within. Seeds square; hilum short, 

 estrophiolate. — A twining herb, blackening when dry. Leaves pinnate 

 3-foliolate stipellate. Flowers middle-sized, in fascicled racemes on 

 slender axillary peduncles ; rachis of fascicle node-like or shortly de- 

 veloped. Bracts or bractlets minute, very caducous, or 0" (Nepatd). 



26. Butea Koen. 2 — Eeceptacle short, lined by a more or less pro- 

 minent disk. Calyx large, silky within ; teeth or lobes very 

 unequal; 2 superior connate into a broad, entire or emarginate 

 lip ; 3 inferior much smaller, imbricated when very ) T oung. Petals 

 very dissimilar ; standard recurved acute, without appendages ; wings 

 falcate, nearly equal to standard, adhering to standard and curved keel. 

 Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1) ; anthers uniform. Germen sessile or 

 shortly stipitate ; style curved beardless ; stigma terminal, minute or 

 truncate ; ovules 2, descending ; micropyle extrorse superior. Legume 

 shortly stipitate, unequally oblong or broadly linear ; at base flat for 

 a considerable distance, wing-like, indehiscent, effete ; close to apex 

 thick, 1 -seeded 2-valved. Seed piano-compressed, suborbicular or 

 reniform exarillate ; embryo fleshy exalbuminous. — Trees or sarmen- 

 tose twining shrubs ; leaves pinnate 3-foliolate exstipellate ; lateral 

 leaflets very unsymmetrical ; stipules minute caducous ; flowers 3 in 

 short racemes or racemose or fascicled-panicled spikes ; bracts and 

 bractlets caducous {Tropical Asia 4 ). 



27. Spatholobus Hassk.— Eeceptacle minute concave, lined by a 



{Glycine Apios L., Spec, 1067; — Schkchb, Kiieed., Bort. Malab., vi. 29, t. 16, 17 (ex 



Handb., 198).— Tokk. & Gr., Fl. N. Amer., i. Adans., Fam. des PL, ii. 325). 



282.— Nutt., Gen,, ii. 113.— But. Mag., t. '» " Orange or thane-coloured ; handsome." 



1198.— Walk, Hep., i. 770. i Koxb., Fl. Lid., iii. 214.— Wight & Au>\, 



1 In Plant. Jungh., i. 234— B. H., Gen., 533, Prodr., i. 216.— Hook., Pot. Misc., ii. t. mippl, 

 n. 206. 32.— Benth.. in PI. Jungh., i. 238.— Waep., 



2 Koxb., PI. Coromand., i. 22, t. 21, 22.— Hep., i. 769 ; Ann., iv. 560. 



DC, Prodr., ii. 414 (part.).— Endl., Gen., n. * In Flora (1812), ii. Beihl., 52.— Benth., in 



6670 (part).— B. H., Gen., 533, n. 207.— Plaso Plant. Jungh.,\. 238; Gen., 534, n. 208.— Dreb- 



