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style curved subulate ; apex not thickened, stigmatiferous. Legume 

 stipitate oblong flat, membranous or subcoriaceous, smooth indehis- 

 cent; margins thin or nerviform. Seed large piano-compressed 

 subreniform. — Trees or shrubs; leaves opposite or in verticils of 

 3-4, imparipinnate ; leaflets opposite ; stipules rather thick, cadu- 

 cous ; flowers 1 racemose ; racemes in threes or single 3-fid at nodes 

 of last year's branches ; bracts and bractlets small, or rather large 

 and inserted at top of pedicel {Tropical America-). 



189? Behaimia Griseb. 3 — Calyx gamosepalous sub-2-labiate ; 

 lobes 5, short ; 2 superior connate to a greater height. Petals long- 

 unguiculate ; standard orbicular reflexed ; wings spatlmlate-oblong ; 

 keel-petals free oblique, nearly similar to wings. Stamens 10, 

 2-adelphous (9-1) ; 9 inferior connate into a sheath cleft above; 

 2 posterior of these connate to a less height than others or scarcely 

 at all ; anthers versatile. Germen sessile ; ovules few (usually 6) ; 

 style slender subulate ; apex minute stigmatiferous. Legume sessile 

 oblong-elliptical flat submembranous, acute at both ends. Seeds 

 usually 1, funiculate reniform, much compressed. — A lofty tree or a 

 shrub ; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; leaflets opposite exstipellate ; 

 stipules minute scale-like obtuse ; flowers racemose ; racemes simple 

 or branched, terminal and springing from axils of higher leaves of 

 twigs; bracts narrow 1 -flowered ; bractlets minute, inserted at top 

 of pedicel below flower 4 {Cuba"). 



190. Ostryocarpus Hook, f. 6 — Flowers almost those of Dal- 

 bergia ; calyx subtruncate ; teeth small. Standard broadly rhom- 

 boidal ; wings free ; keel curved obtuse, petals dorsally connate. 

 Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1). Germen pauciovulate. Legume 

 suborbicular piano-compressed coriaceous wingless, apiculate by 

 terminal style, indehiscent. Seed broadly oblong, transverse piano- 

 compressed. — A sarmentose shrub ; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; 

 leaflets opposite ; flowers 7 in compound much branched axillary 



1 Yellow. 4 This genus (" in habit somewhat resembling 



2 Species 12 or 13. Benth., in Ann. Wien. Ateleia," BentiO is allied to Platymisciwn ami 

 Mus., ii. 104 ; in Seem. Herald, 121, t. 21 ; in Hymenololium, while by its fruit and How its it 

 Journ. Linn. Soc, iv. Suppl., 80 ; in Mart. Ft. comes very near to Dalbergia. 



Bras., Papil., 271, t. 96, 07. 5 Species 1. B. ctibettsis GteiSEB., lor. cih, 7S 



3 Cat. Plant. Cub., 77.— B. H., Gen., 1002, 6 Niger, 31G.— B. 11., Gen., 548, n. 218. 

 n. 246 a. 7 Yellowish white. 



