326 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



piano-compressed, co-seeded, longitudinally 4-winged, each suture 

 transversely produced at each side into a broad membranous veined 

 wing, seeds oval compressed.— A tree; leaves and inflorescences 1 

 of Lonchocarpus ; bracts caducous; bractlets 2, lateral, inserted on 

 pedicel, opposite subelliptical subcoriaceous" {Mexico, Florida, West 

 Indies' 1 '). 



1S7. Coublandia Aubl. 4 — Eeceptacle depressed obconical, slightly 

 oblique, lined by a disk. Calyx gamosepalous, broadly tubular, 

 either evenly truncate or very shortly 5-toothed. Petals unguicu- 

 late; standard suborbicular or broadly ovate, exappendiculate ; 

 wings unevenly oblong, slightly adhering to keel ; keel curved 

 obtuse. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1) at base; vexillary stamen 

 afterwards closely connate with remainder into a closed tube ; anthers 

 versatile, minutely apiculate. Germen shortly stipitate ; ovules go ; 

 style slender curved ; apex minute stigmatiferous. Legume either 

 moniliform thick fleshy- corky subterete, constricted between seeds, 

 or by abortion subglobose 1 -seeded, indehiscent. Seeds subovoid, 

 scarcely compressed, laterally affixed ; embryo fleshy ; radicle in- 

 flexed. — Trees ; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; leaflets opposite ; 

 stipules very small ; flowers 5 in axillary or lateral racemes, scattered 

 or in pairs along rachis ; bracts and bractlets very small, caducous 

 {Mexico, South America 6 ). 



188. Platymiscium Voc;. 7 — Eeceptacle obtuse or turbinate at 

 base, lined by a disk. Calyx gamosepalous, shortly and nearly 

 equally 5-toothed. Corolla almost that of Pterocarpus f wings free ; 

 keel straight or slightly curved, petals dorsally connate at apex. 

 Stamens 10, either 1-adelphous, sheath cleft above, or more rarely 

 2-adelphous ; anthers versatile ; cells often confluent at apex. Germen 

 long-stalked, inserted in bottom of receptacle ; ovule 1, descending; 



1 Flowers whitish mixed with blood-red; calyx rit. — DC, Prodr., ii. 259. — Endl., Gen., n. 

 coloured. 6735. — B. II., Gen., 550, n. 253. — Cyanoboirys 



2 This genus ought perhaps rather to be con- Zucc, PL Nov., fasc. v. 30, t. 5 (ex Bemu.). 

 sidered a section of Lonchocarpus . '" Violet or whitish. 



3 Species 1 P. Erythrina L., Spec, 993. — 6 Species 2. Miq., Stirp. Surin., t. 4. — 

 H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec, vi. 382. — Benth., Bentu., in Journ. Linn. .Voc., iv. Suppl., 117; 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc, iv. Suppl., 116. — Ery- in Mart. Fl. Bras., Papil., 290, t. 108. 

 thrina piscipuU L., Spec, ed. 1, 107. 7 In Linnata, xi. 198. — Endl., Gen., n. 6720. 



4 Guian., 937, t. 300 (fruct.), 356 (1775).— — B. H., Gen., 548, n. 246. 

 J., Gen., 352. — H. Bn., in Adamonia, ix. fasc. s Petals glabrous. 

 I.—Muellera L. F., Suppl., 53 (1781).— J., loc 



