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side, more rarely thickened dilated {Neuroscapha'). Seeds l-oo, 

 suborbicular or reniform, compressed. — Trees or climbing shrubs ; 

 leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets opposite, rarely stipellate; stipules 

 small or linear; flowers" in simple or branched racemes; pedicels in 

 pairs or fascicled along rachis, more rarely scattered ; bracts and 

 bractlets caducous or persistent 3 {Tropical America, Africa, and 

 Australia?). 



18 Sa. Xanthocercis H. Bn. 5 — Receptacle shortly cupuliform, lined 

 by a thin disk. Calyx gamosepalous subcampanulate, entire and 

 evenly truncate or more rarely obscurely 5-toothed. Corolla 

 papilionaceous ; 4 inferior petals nearly similar, free, oblong, sub- 

 spathulate, tapering for a considerable distance at base, slightly 

 unsymmetrical ; standard nearly equal in length to wings ; claw 

 broader rather fleshy ; limb subobovate, shortly 2-auriculate at base, 

 outermost in bud; stamens 10, slightly 2-adelphous ; vexillary 

 stamen entirely free, tapering at base ; 9 others connate close to 

 base, deciduous ; 5 alternipetalous filaments larger, furnished outside 

 at base with a scale ; scales connate to a variable height and un- 

 equally crenate or torn at apex (as in the Simarubece) ; anthers 

 uniform, ovate, introrse, 2-rimose versatile. Grermen shortly stipu- 

 late ; style short subulate; apex not thickened, stigmatiferous ; 

 ovules oo, obliquely descending. Fruit (when unripe) surrounded 

 at base by persistent calyx, apiculated by style, elongated subcylin- 

 drical co -seeded indehiscent. — A tree ; leaves alternate paripinnate; 

 2 last leaflets opposite ; remainder alternate ; all petiolate entire ; 

 stipules minute, scarcely visible ; flowers in branched terminal and 

 axillarv racemes ; bracts alternate 1 -flowered ; bractlets 2, small 

 caducous, inserted at middle of pedicel {Madagascar*). 



186. Piscidia L. 7 — Flowers of Lonchocarpus. Legume linear 



1 Tttl., mAnn. Sc. Nat., sor. 2, xx. 137; in t. 99-106; Fl. Austral., ii. 271. — II. Bn., in 

 Arch. Mus., iv. 75, t. 6. Adansonia, vi. 220. — Baker, in Oliv. Ft. Trop. 



2 Whitish, violet, or purple ; standard often Afr., ii. 241. 



silky ; calyx often cyathiform after anthesis. 6 Adansonia, ix. 293. 



3 This genus, but for its indehiscent legume, G Species 1. X. madagascariensis. 



has all the characters of Milletia (p. 259). • 7 Gen., n. 856. — Lame., Diet., i. 433 ; Suppl., 



Closely allied, too, arc Gliricidia (p. 262), Fon- i. 663 ; III., t. 605; DC, Vrodr., ii. 267.— 



gamia and Deguelia (p. 328). Kndl., Gen., n. Ci72:5. — 15. H., a,',/., 550, a. 



4 Species about 50. Benth., in Jowrn. Linn, 252. — Ichthyomethia V. Be., ,/-/,</., '!'<<. 

 Soc, iv. Suppl., 85 ; in Mori. Fl. Bras., Papil., 



