328 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



racemes ; bracts and bractlets small deciduous ( Western tropical 

 Africa}). 



191. Hymenolobium Benth. 2 — Flowers almost those of Platy- 

 miscium. Calyx truncate at apex, obscurely and sinuately tootlied. 

 Germen pluriovulate. Legume oblong or linear-oblong, flat membra- 

 nous indehiscent, traversed by branched veins of which 2, larger than 

 remainder, are almost parallel to margins near base. Seed 1, piano- 

 compressed, transversely oblong ; embryo exalbuminous ; radicle short 

 inflexed. — A tree ; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; leaflets opposite ; 

 stipules linear or lanceolate, caducous ; flowers 3 loosely panicled on leaf- 

 less branches ; bracts and bractlets small caducous (Tropical America*). 



192. Pongamia Vent. 5 — Eeceptacle short cupuliform. Calyx 

 sacciform ; teeth 5 ; very obtuse or evanescent. Corolla nearly 

 of Dalberfjia or Osf/yocarpus ; wings adhering at middle to obtuse 

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

 sometimes connate at middle with remainder into a closed tube ; 

 anthers versatile. Grermen subsessile ; ovules 2 ; style slender 

 curved; apex more or less capitate, stigmatiferous. Legume more 

 or less obliquely oblong, piano-compressed, thickty coriaceous or 

 subcarnose, 1 -seeded indehiscent; sutures obtuse bare. — A tree; 

 leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets opposite ; stipules minute caducous ; 

 flowers 6 in axillary racemes, in groups of 2-4 along rachis ; bracts 

 very caducous ; bractlets 2, inserted at middle of pedicel 7 [Tnpical 

 Asia and Austral} a 91 ). 



193. Deguelia Aubl. 9 — Flowers almost those of Pongamia ; 



1 Species 1. 0. rlparius Hook., loc. cit. — closely allied to section Amptymenivm of Ptero- 

 Benth., in Journ. Linn. Soc, iv. Suppl., 85, carpus. 



[and also O. ? WeVmtschii Bakek, in Oliv. Fl. 8 Species 1. P. glabra Vent., loc. cil. — P. 



Trap. Afr., ii. 240]. grandifolia Zoll. & Moii., Verz., 3.— L., Sp« ... 



2 In Journ. Linn. Soc, iv. Suppl., 84.— B. H., 1044 {llobinia).— W., Spec, iii. 901 (DalUrgia). 

 Gen., 548, n. 247. 9 Q u j an , y 750 (1775), t. 300 (excl. fruct.).— 



Pmk, rather large. Lamk., Diet., ii. 266 ; III., t. 603.— DC, Prodr , 



Species 1. H. ndidum Benth., in Mart. ii. 422.— Endl., Gen., n. 6733.— H. Ex., in 



Fl. Bras., Papil., 274, t. 98. Adansonia, i.\. i'asc. I.— Cylizoma Neck., Kl, m., 



Jard, Malm., t. 28.— Lamk., III., t. 600.— 1,. 13 YA.— Dtrns Lor/K., Fl. Cock., ed. llv>sip. 



DC, Prodr., 11. 416, n. 1.— Endl., Gen., n. (1790), 432. — DC, Prodr., ii. 415.— E*m.i., 



6713.— B. H., Gen., 549, n. 251.— Guadelupa Gen., n. 6732.— B. H., Gen., 549, n. 250.— 



Lamk., Diet., 11. 595. Brachypterum Bentii., in Ann. II ien. Mas., \\. 



_ Wlntish j standard very thinly silky outside. 101.— Endl., Gen,, n. 67l2.-Aganc,ve MlQ., 



' " Th.s genus is scarcely distinct from Lon- Fl. Lid. Bat., i. p. 1, 151. 



chocarpus" (Benth.), and at the same time is 





