248 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



persistent striated; flowers 1 1, 2, or oo at each axil, in crowded 

 racemes ; pedicels often geminate ; bracts stipuliform persistent, free 

 or variably connate ; bractlets 2, lateral below flower, usually larger 

 membranous striated, persistent (All hot regions"). 



38? Platycyamus Benth. 3 — "Lobes of calyx short, 2 superior 

 connate into one, emarginate. Standard suborbicular, narrowed and 

 without appendages at base ; wings falcate oblong ; keel about equal 

 to wings ; petals free. Stamens, vexillary free, remainder connate ; 

 anthers uniform. Genu en sessile, oo-ovulate ; style filiform curved 

 beardless ; stigma small terminal. Legume 4 large, broadly linear 

 piano-compressed, 2-valved ; superior suture, winged. Seeds broad 

 reniform piano-compressed estrophiolate. — Stem woody (arborescent ? 

 or high climbing ?) ; leaves pinnate 3-foliolate stipellate ; leaflets 

 large; stipules deciduous or 0. Flowers 5 rather large, racemose 

 along branches of a terminal panicle, one flower to each bract. 

 Bracts small deciduous; bractlets minute, very caducous" (Brazil''). 



39. Dioclea H.B.K. 7 — Receptacle obconical oblique lined by a 

 glandular disk somewhat projecting round gynaeceum. Calyx gamo- 

 sepalous subgibbous ; lubes 4 (2 superior connate into one broader 

 entire), much imbricated. Standard orbicular or reflexed, furnished 

 at base with inflexed auriculatc appendages, and sometimes with 

 2 interior scales ; wings obovate or oblong, equal to or a little 

 shorter than keel, free; keel curved, obtuse or beaked. Stamens 10, 

 2-adelphous ; vexillary stamen free at base, higher more or less 

 connate with remainder ; 9 filaments connate into a sheath, oblique 

 at base, broadly cleft dorsally ; anthers uniform, or 5 alternate 

 smaller effete [Packylobium, Platylobium). Germen shortly stipitate 

 2- cc -ovulate ; style curved beardless, thickened or dilated at apex; 

 stigma evenly or obliquely truncate, terminal often puipy. Legume 



Blue, red, or white ; handsome. a genus, as before observed, anomalous among 



J Vent., Ch. de Plant., t. 26.— Bot. Map., t. Ccesalpinieas. See pp. 92, 170. 

 1512, 2111, 3165. — Bexth., in Ann. ivien. b " Bed (?)." 



Mis., ii. 114; in Jovni. Linn. Soc, ii. 33 ; in 6 Species 1. P. RegneWi Bexth., loc. cit. 



Mart. FL Bras., Papil., t. 31-33 ; Fl. Austral., 7 y or _ Gen . et Spec, vi. 437 (nee Spreng.).— 



ii. 242.— Bakes, in Oliv. Fl. Trap. Afr., ii. DC, Prodr., ii. 403.— Endl., Gen., n. 6662.— 



1/ ^ 5 - B. H., Gen., 536,n.216. — Hi/menospron Spreng., 



3 In Mart. Fl. Bras., Papil., 323.— B. H., Syst., Cur. Post., 2$3.— Crepidotropis Walp., 

 Gen., 531, n. 200. in Linnaa, xiv. 296.— Trichodoum P. BeaW., 



4 " Entirely that of Phyllocarpus" (Benth.), ex H. By., in Adansonia, vi. 228. 



