LEGUMIN08JE-PAPILT0NACEJE. 313 



nearly equal or 2 superior connate to a greater height, sometimes 

 nearly to apex. Petals elongated ; standard long obovate ; wings 

 obliquely oblong ; keel adhering to and often about equal to wings, 

 slightly curved, often bearing a small membranous appendage on 

 each side, obtuse at apex. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1); anthers 

 uniform. Germen sessile or shortly stipitate ; ovules cc ; style 

 slender, more or less curved at apex ; stigma terminal or oblique, 

 usually broadly capitate. Legume subterete, subtubular, or rather 

 compressed, transversely constricted or nearly even between seeds ; 

 segments ovate or cylindrical, truncate at both ends ; septa between 

 seeds finally vanishing. Seeds suborbicular or ovate, exarillate. — 

 Erect or diffuse herbs, glabrous or silky; leaves 1-foliolate 2-stipel- 

 late or more rarely 3-foliolate ; stipules scarious narrowed, free or 

 connate ; flowers in terminal or more rarely axillary racemes ; 

 pedicels articulated at base and apex, usually 2 at axil of each bract ; 

 bracts and bractlets usually scarious deciduous {All tropical regions 1 ). 



161. Phylacium Benn.- — Calyx gamosepalous sub- 2 -labiate ; 2 

 superior lobes entirely or almost entirely connate. Petals rather 

 long-unguiculate ; standard obovate or suborbicular, callous and 

 bearing 2 inflexed auriculate appendages within above base ; w T ings 

 subfalcate, sometimes auriculate subcalcarate at base ; keel shorter 

 than wings, curved obtuse. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1); vexil- 

 lary stamen afterwards connate with remainder; anthers uniform. 

 Germen subsessile, surrounded at base by a disk prolonged into a 

 ring ; ovule 1 ; style curved, slightly thickened above middle, subu- 

 late at apex ; summit capitate stigmatiferous. Legume ovate piano- 

 compressed, acuminate by style, reticulated indehiscent. Seed sub- 

 orbicular compressed exarillate.— Twining herbs ; leaves pinnate 

 3-foliolate ; leaflets stipellate, rather large ; stipules narrow caducous ; 

 flowers in a short, irregularly cymiferous axillary raceme ; bracts 

 mostly small ; 1 or few much increasing in size after anthesis, plaited 

 cucullate membranous-foliaceous veined ; bractlets 2, inserted at apex 

 of pedicel {Indian Jrc/iipelago 3 ). 



1 Species 15. Wight, Icon., t. 92, 250, 251.— 2 Plant. Jar. Ear., 159, t. 33.— Endl., G, ii., 



Haky. & Sond., Fl. Cap., ii. 230.— I '.a kick, in n. 6598. — B. II., Gen., 523, n. 179. 

 Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., ii. 1139. — Walp., Rep., i. 3 Species 1. /'. bracteoswm Benn., loo. cit — 



719; ii. 899; v. 528; Ann., ii. 419; iv. Walp., llep.,\. 72(j; v. 520; Ann., iv. 533. — 



548. P. seandeus IIassk., Cart. Hort. />'«,■/., 227. 



