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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



lets 2, inserted at apex of pedicel {Temperate Asia, Australia, North 

 America 1 ). 



167? Ougeinia Benth. 2 — Receptacle small cupshaped, lined by a 

 very thick glandular disk. Calyx markedly perigynous ; lobes 5, 

 obtuse unequal ; 2 superior connate into a broad, emarginate or 2- 

 toothed lip ; lowest lobe larger than lateral. Petals shortly ungui- 

 culate ; standard suborbicular or broadly obovate ; wings obliquely 

 oblong, slightly adhering to keel ; keel about equal to wings, slightly 

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

 Germen sessile elongated; ovules co ; style curved; apex capitate 

 globose stigmatiferous. Legume elongated flat ; segments 1- oo t 

 long oblong, rather thick, reticulated, scarcely dehiscent. 3 Seeds 

 compressed reniform exarillate. — A tree ; leaves pinnate 3-foliolate ; 

 leaflets large stipellate ; stipules deciduous ; flowers very crowded in 

 short racemes densely fascicled at old nodes ; pedicels filiform ; bracts 

 small scale-like ; bractlets inserted at top of pedicel below flower, 

 subpersistent {Fast Indies*). 



VII. DALBEEGIEiE. 



168. Dalbergia L. r. — Receptacle cupuliform, lined by a disk. 

 Calyx gamosepalous ; teeth 5, unequal imbricated ; lowest often 

 longer than others ; 3 superior broader. Corolla papilionaceous ; 

 petals unguiculate ; standard ovate or obovate, more rarely orbicu- 

 lar ; wings obliquely oblong ; keel obtuse, petals dorsally connate 

 at apex. Stamens 10 ; either 1-adelphous, sheath longitudinally 

 cleft above; or 2-adelphous (9-1) ; more rarely 9, vexillary stamen 

 absent ; anthers small erect didymous ; cells usually dorsally apposed, 

 more or less longitudinally rimose from apex. Germen stipitate ; 

 ovules few or 1 ; style curved ; apex minute or slightly dilated, stig- 

 matiferous. Legume oblong or linear or more rarely falcate, flat 

 samaroid thin reticulated, slightly hardened at middle, 1 -seeded or 



1 Species about 25. Jacquem., Toy. Sot., t. 

 50-52.— MlQ., Fl. Ind.-Bat., i. t. 4 {Campylo 

 tropis). — Kl., in Waldem. Reis., Hot., t. 1, fig. 

 2 {Oxyramphis). — Benth., Fl. Honglc., 85; Fl. 

 Austral., ii. 210. — Rupr., Dec. Fl. Am.., t. 5. — 

 JBot. Reg. (18-16), t. 28.— Walp., Re])., i. 748; 

 v. 527 ; Ann., iii. 850 ; iv. 517. 



2 In Plant. Jungh., i. 216.— B. H., Gen., 518, 

 n. 169. 



3 " Resembling the legume of Dalbergia" 

 (Benth.). 



4 Species 1. O. dalbergioides Benth. — Dal- 

 bergia oogeinensis Roxb., ex Wight, Icon., t. 

 391. 



