262 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



64. Gliricidia H. B. K. 1 — Receptacle cupuliform or shortly obco- 

 nical, lined by a concave disk not produced round gynseceum. Calyx 

 gamosepalous, either nearly entire and evenly truncate, or oftener 

 very shortly 5-toothed ; 2 superior teeth sometimes subconnate. 

 Standard large reflexed, without callosities ; claw articulated at base ; 

 limb bare or furnished with small inflexed auriculate appen- 

 dages ; wing's 2 falcate-oblong free ; keel curved obtuse. Stamens 

 10, 2-adelphous (9-1); anthers uniform; connective long ovate, 

 often coloured. Grermen stipitate oc -ovulate ; style curved or inflexed, 

 glabrous or furnished with small hairs below stigma ; stigma terminal 

 small or minutely capitate. Legume stipitate, broadly linear piano- 

 compressed, sometimes unequally constricted between seeds, con- 

 tinuous within, 2-valved ; valves coriaceous thick. Seeds exarillate. 

 — Trees or shrubs ; leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets exstipellate, rather 

 large, quite entire, reticulate penniveined, often spotted ; stipules 

 small ; flowers 3 (sometimes appearing before the leaves) in racemes 

 inserted in axils or at old defoliated nodes ; bracts and bracelets 

 small or {Tropical America?). 



65. Diphysa J acq. 5 — Beceptacle slightly concave, lined by a disk. 

 Calyx gamosepalous ; lobes 5, unequal ; 2 superior broader obtuse ; 

 lowest longer and narrower than remainder, very acute, arched. 

 Standard unguiculate suborbicular, with 2 callosities within ; wings 

 curved oblique ; keel curved, more or less acute or beaked. Stamens 

 10, 2-adelphous (9-1) ; anthers uniform. Germen stipitate oc -ovu- 

 late arched, continuous with curved subulate glabrous style ; stigma 

 small or minutely capitate, terminal. Legume stipitate elongated; 

 endocarp linear subplane, much narrower within, scarcely or not 

 hollow between seeds ; sutures linear bare, either scarcely prominent, 

 or produced longitudinally into a subulate keel ; exocarp separable 

 from endocarp, inflated and dilated at each face into a reticulated, 

 vesicular or compressed keel-like membrane. Seeds ovate or oblong, 

 more rarely transversely elongated compressed.— Shrubs or trees, 

 often glandular; leaves imparipinnate; leaflets entire exstipellate 



Nov. Gen. et Spec, vi. 393.— B. H., &en., Prodr., 1C6 ?.— DC, Prodr., ii. 260, 216 [Lon- 



499. n. 107. chocarpus).— Gbjsbb., Cat. PI. Cub., 77. 



* Sometimes transversely folded. 5 8tirp j ;/ , ,. ._. Igj t 181> fig i51._l.vmk., 



J Pmk or lllac - Diet., ii. 289; III., t.6i >:>.— I n '.. Prorfr.,ii.269.— 



4 Jacq., Amer., 211, t. 119 {Sobinia).— Sw., Emdl., Gen., n. 6555.— B. H., Gen., 500, n. 112. 



