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perior teeth or lobes connate to a variable height. Corolla almost 

 that of Dalberyia ; standard broadly ovate or suborbiculate. Sta- 

 mens 10, 1- or 2-adelphons ; sheath longitudinally cleft above or on 

 both sides ; more rarely vexillary stamen free ; anthers versatile. 

 Germen sessile or stipitate; ovules 2-6, descending; style slender 

 curved ; apex minute stigmatiferous. Legume compressed, ovate or 

 oftener orbicular, more rarely oval-oblong and more or less oblique, 

 seminiferous and more or less thickened or hardened at middle ; 

 sometimes unevenly corky {Moutouchi 1 ) ; sometimes tapering all 

 round into a wing, echinate at middle {Echi/iodiscti.r), or almost en- 

 tirely membranous thin {Amphymenium 3 ) ; more rarely longer than 

 broad, coriaceous, rather thick (Ancylocalyx*). Seeds 1 or more 

 rarely 2, separated by a septum -radicle short curved. — Trees, un- 

 armed ; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; leaflets alternate or nearly 

 opposite, exstipellate ; stipules usually minute or inconspicuous ; 

 flowers 5 in simple or branched, axillary and terminal racemes ; bracts 

 and bractlets small caducous 6 {Tropical Asia, Africa, and America'). 



177 ? Pcecilanthe Benth. 8 — " Calyx turbinate at base; 2 superior 

 lobes connate into 1 sub-2-dentate. Standard orbicular inappen- 

 diculate ; wings falcate-oblong or obovate ; keel curved subrostrate, 

 petals dorsally connate. Stamens all connate into a sheath cleft 

 above ; 5 anthers longer, affixed close to base ; 5 alternate shorter 

 versatile. Germen subsessile or shortly stipitate, co-ovulate ; style 

 filiform curved ; stigma small terminal. Legume .... (when 



Spach, Suit, a Buffon, i. 362. — Endl., Gen., n. 

 6705.— B. H., Gen., 547, n. 2 1 1 (iucl. : Amphy. 

 menium H. B. K., ? Ancylocalyx Ttjl., Echino- 

 discus DC, Moutouchi Aubl., Phellocarpus 

 Benth., ? Vatairea Aubl. [according to 

 Benth., not Sag., as will be seen below]). 



1 Aubl., Oman., ii. 748, t. 299. — Griselinia 

 Neck., Elem., n. 1358 (nee Forst.). — Mou- 

 touchia DC. (sect. Pterocarpi). — Benth., in 

 Ann. Wien. Mus., ii. 94. — Endl., Gen., n. 6704. 



2 DC, loc. cit. (sect. Pterocarpi). — Benth. , 

 loc. cit., 94. — Endl., Gen., n. 6706. — Wein- 

 reichia Reichb., Consp., 152. 



3 H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec, vi. 380. — 

 Benth., loc. cit., 95. — Phellocarpus Benth. 

 (loc. cit.), 106, is, according to the same author 

 (Gen., 547), an Amphy menium " whose fruit is 

 deformed (by the bite of some insect ?_)." 



4 Tul., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 2, xx. 136, t. 

 2 ; in Arch. Mas., iv. 73. 



6 Yellow, more rarely whitish mixed with 

 violet, olten handsome. 



6 Vatairea Aubl. (Guian., 755, t. 302. — 

 DC, Prodr., ii. 521.— Endl., Gen., n. 6731) is 

 hesitatingly referred by Bentham to Pterocarpus 



ibove, p. 319, note 7). 



7 Species about 15. Jacq., Amer., 283, t. 

 182, rtj;. 92.— Vahl, Symb., ii. 79.— Boxb.. PI. 

 Coromand., ii. 9, 1. 116. — Pees., Syn., ii. 277. — 

 Wight, ///., t. 78; Icon., t. 246.— Guill. & 

 Perk., Fl. Seneg. Tent., i. 228, t. 54.— A. 

 RICH., Fl. Abyss. Tent., t. 45. — Benth., in 

 Jou.rn. Linn. Soc, iv. Suppl., 74 ; in Mart. Fl. 

 Bras., Papil., 266, t. 92.— Baker, in Olio. Fl. 

 Trap. Afr., ii. 237. — H. Bn., in Adansonia, vi. 

 217.— Walp., Ann., ii. 436 ; iv. 570. 



3 Benth., in Jount. Linn. Soc, iv. Suppl., 

 80.— B. H., Gen., 547, u. 245. 



