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NATURAL HIS TOE Y OF PLANTS. 



Calyx gamosepalous, subentire truncate or shortly 5-toothed ; 2 

 superior teeth absent or sometimes subconnate. Standard large, 

 patent or reflexed, bare or callous within above claw, more rarely 

 (Ofosema 1 ) furnished with inflexed auriculate appendages ; wings free 

 falcate-oblong, free or cohering at apex ; keel curved obtuse. Stamens 

 10, 2-adelphous (9-1) at base; vexillary stamen alwa}<s or after- 

 wards free {Padbrvggecf), or oftener more or less connate at middle 

 with remainder ; anthers uniform • connective often subglandular. 

 Germen sessile or shortly stipitate ; ovules co ; style terete glabrous 

 inflexed ; apex subtruncate or capitate. Legume linear oblong or 

 lanceolate, piano-compressed rigid, coriaceous or woody, 2-valved or 

 oftener late or scarcely dehiscent. Seeds exarillate. — Trees, or erect 

 or climbing shrubs ; leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets 3 usually stipellate ; 

 stipules small ; flowers scattered or fascicled along rachis of ter- 

 minal, simple or branched racemes ; bracts and bractlets deciduous 4 

 {Tropical Asia, Africa, and Oceania?). 



61 ? Sarcodum Lour. 6 — Flowers (apparently) of Mittetia ; calyx 

 subtruncate ; teeth very short. " Standard large patent ; wings 

 oblong ; keel curved obtuse. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1) ; anthers 

 uniform. Grermen sessile, surrounded at base by an annular disk, 

 co-ovulate. Legume linear straight terete fleshy (indehiscent?). — 

 A high-climbing shrub ; leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets go, small 

 oblong stipellate ; racemes terminal subpanicled ; younger bracts 

 subulate-acuminate hairy" 7 (Cochinchina). 



62. Wistaria Nutt. 8 — Calyx 4-toothed ; superior tooth shortly 

 2-toothed or 2-crenate at apex • 3 inferior teeth usually a little longer 



large, often evergreen reticulate 



1 Benth., in PI. Jungh., i. 248. 



2 Miq., Fl. Ind.-Bat., i. p. i. 150. 



3 Rather 

 penniveined 



4 This genus, closely allied to the large-leaved 

 Tephrosias, to Mundulea, Gliricidia, and some 

 species of Lonchocarpus and Wistaria, appears 

 to be entirely artificial, and perhaps would be 

 better considered a section of Wistaria. 



5 Wight, Icon., t. 86, 207.— A. Rich., FL 

 Abyss. Tent., t. 35. — Hook., Icon., t. 788. 



Benth., Fl. Hongk., 78; Fl. Austral, ii. 211. 



Baker, in Oliv. Fl. T,op. Afr., ii. 126. — H. Bx., 

 in Adansonia. vi. 222. — Walp., Sep., i. 799; 

 v. 514; Ann., i. 254; iv. 572. 



6 Fl. Cochinch., ed. Ulyssip. (1790), 462.— 

 DC, Prodr., ii. 522. — b! H., Gen., 498, n. 

 103. 



' A very uncertain genus, which, "judging 

 from the characters given by Lotjheiko and an 

 imperfect specimen, appears to be allied to Mil- 

 letia; but the legume is different, and the leaves 

 are rather those of Tephrosia." (Bexth.) 



8 Gen. N. Amer. Plant., ii. 115 (err. Wis- 

 teria). — DC, Prodr., ii. 390.— Spach, Suit, a 

 Buffon, i. 256.— Exdl., Gen., n. 6671.— B. H., 

 Gen., 499, n. 105. — Thyrsanthus Ell., in Journ. 

 Acad. Philad., i. 371.— Diplonyx Rafix., Fl 

 Intdov , 101. 



