324 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



leaflets opposite exstipellate ; flowers 1 crowded along twigs of a 

 terminal panicle; bracts minute ; bractlets small persistent " {Vene- 

 zuela 2 ). 



184. Bocoa Aubl. 3 — Flowers polygamous. Receptacle minute 

 concave, lined by a thin disk. Calyx tubular or subcampanulate ; 

 teetb 2-5, irregular unequal. Petals 5, either nearly free or connate 

 at base into a tube with base of stamens, nearly equal, linear, ex- 

 serted, corrugated above, imbricated in aestivation; highest outer- 

 most. Stamens 10 ; 5 alternate longer ; filaments connate into a 

 tube with or without petals ; anthers short didymous introrse 2- 

 rimose. Germen (rudimentary in male flower) sessile or shortly 

 stipitate ; ovules 2 or few, descending ; style short ; apex obliquely 

 dilated, stigmatiferous. Fruit subdrupaceous or coriaceous, obliquely 

 obovate or curved, 1 -seeded, finally 2-valved. Seed exalbuminous ; 

 embryo thick ; cotyledons fleshy ; radicle short curved. — Trees, un- 

 armed ; leaves simple coriaceous ; petiole short ; stipules small ; 

 flowers 4 in axillary spikes ; bracts small deciduous 1 -flowered ; bract- 

 lets persistent for a longer time {Guiana, Paeijic Ocean 6 ). 



185. Lonchocarpus II. B. K. 8 — Flowers almost those of Cou- 

 blandia or Milletia ; calyx evenly truncate or very shortly 5-toothed. 

 Standard often silky, bare or 2-appendiculate at base above claw ; 

 wings oblique, slightly adherent to keel above claw. Stamens ] 0, 

 2-adelphous at base, afterwards connate into a closed tube. Germen 

 subsessile or stipitate ; ovules 2- co ; style curved slender ; apex 

 minute stigmatiferous. Legume indehiscent, oblong or elongated, 

 flat, membranous or coriaceous (Sphinctohbium T ) ; style terminal ; 

 sutures not winged ; superior suture traversed by a nerve on each 



2 



1 " Orange-coloured." * Small, yellow. 



2 Species 1. F. Fendleri Benth., loc. tit. * Species 3 or 4, of which 1 belongs to tlie 



3 Guian,, Suppl., 38, t. 391 (1775).— Benth., Old World. Roxu., PL Command., iii.t. 263.— 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc, vi. 146.— H. Bx., in Bl., Pijdraj., 551.— Guillem., Zeph. Tait., in 

 Adansonia, ix. fasc. I. — Inocarpus Forst., Ann. Sc. Nat„ sir. 2, vii. 246. 



Char. Gen., 65, t. 33 (1776).— G^etn., Fruct., <> Nov . Gen. et Spec, vi. 383 (part.).— DC, 



iii. 114, t. 199, 200, fig. 1.— Endl., Gen., n. Prodr., ii. 259 (part.).— Enhl., Gea., n. 65 II.— 



2017.— B. H„ Gen., 552, n. 260.— Aniotum B. H., Ge„., 5 is, n. 219.— ? Clompanvs Aubl., 



Soland., mss. (ex Endl., loc. cit.).—FtabalUa Guian., 773.— Philenoplera Fenzl, in Flora 



BENTH.,m Hook. Journ., ii. 99— Hook., Icon., (1844), 312.— Capassa Kl, in Pet. Mosmmb., 



t. 453. — ? Inodaphnis Miq., Fl. Ind. Pat., Pot., 27, t. 5. 



Suppl., i. 357 (ex Benth. ; Chrysobalanea, ex 7 Vog., in ' Linncea, xi. 417. 

 Miq., in Ann. 3Ius. Lvgd.-Bat., iii. 89). 



