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few-seeded (seeds remote), either not thickened or winged at margins, 

 indehiscent. Seeds reniform piano-compressed, laterally affixed ; 

 embryo exalbuminous ; radicle superior inflexed. — Trees or climbing 

 shrubs ; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; leaflets cc 3 exstipellate, 

 alternate, or more rarely 1 terminal ; stipules usually small, caducous, 

 or scarcely visible ; flowers small, usually crowded in axillary or 

 terminal racemes composed of numerous, regular or irregular, much 

 branched cymes ; bracts and bract-lets usually small, caducous or 

 persistent {Tropical Asia, Africa, Oceania, and America). 



169. Ecastaphyllum P. Br. 1 — Flowers of Dalbcrgia. Legume 

 suborbicular, flat and rather thick or finally corky and thickened, 

 submarginate at superior suture, 1 -seeded indehiscent. — Shrubs, 

 loosely branched or sarmentose, climbing ; leaves alternate impari- 

 pinnate ; leaflets 1— co, usually alternate, exstipellate; flowers 2 in 

 short, simple or compound, axillary racemes ; bracts and bractlets 

 small {Tropical America and Africa?). 



170. Macheerium Pers. 4 — Flowers nearly of Dalbcrgia; recep- 

 tacle minutely cupuliform, obtuse at base ; anthers versatile ; 

 cells parallel, dehiscing longitudinally. Grermen 1-2-ovulate. 

 Legume compressed samaroid, thickened at base, 1 -seeded, tapering 

 above into an oblong net-veined wing, terminated by style, inde- 

 hiscent. Seed ovate orbicular or reniform ; embryo rather fleshy ; 

 radicle inflexed. — Trees or shrubs, erect or climbing ; leaves impari- 

 pinnate ; leaflets oo, usually alternate ; stipules usually small, some- 

 times hardened spinescent ; inflorescences 5 of Dalbergia {Tropical 

 America 6 ). 



171. Cyclolobium Benth. 7 — Flowers nearly of Macharium; 



1 Jam., 229, t, 32, fig. 1. — L. C. Rich., in Trop. Afr., ii. 236. — H. Bn., in Adansonia, vi. 

 Pers. Syn,, ii. 277.— DC, Prodr., ii. 420.— 217. 



B. H., Gen., 545, n. 23l.—Acouroa Awl., 4 Syn., ii. 276.— Endl., Gen., n. 6710.— 



Guian., 753, t. 301. — Drakensteinia Neck., B. H., Gen., 545, n. 39. 



JSlem., ii. 1344. — Secastophyllum H. B. K., 5 Flowers small or middle-sized; purple, violet, 



Nov. Gen. et Spec, vi. 387. — Endl., Gen., n. or white. 



6703 (Some authors write " Ecadophyllum"). 6 Species about 60. Presl, Symb., t. 72, 73. — 



2 Whitish, small. Benth.. in Journ. Lhm. Sue., iv. Suppl., 52; in 

 8 Species 4 or 5. Miq., Stirp. Surin., t. 5.— Mart. Fl. Bras., Papil., 231, t. 67-80.— Walp., 



Benth., in Ann. Wien. Mus., ii. 93 j in Journ. R^p., i. 794; Ann., ii. 437 ; iv. 571. 



Linn. Soc, iv. Suppl., 50; in Mart. Fl. Bras., 7 In Ann. Wien. Mus., ii. 92.— Endl., Gm., 



Papil., 227, t. 63-65. — Bakeb, in Oliv. Fl, n. 6700.— B. H., Gen., 545, n. 238. 



