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teeth or short broad lobes ; 2 superior more or less subconnate. 

 Standard suborbicular erect or subrecurved ; wings falcate oblong ; 

 keel incurved obtuse. Stamens 10, free ; anthers versatile. Germen 

 stipitate co-ovulate ; style incurved ; stigma minute terminal capi- 

 tate. Legume linear piano-compressed membranous indehiscent; 

 ventral suture narrowly winged. Seeds compressed, unequally ovate 

 or oblong, funiculate ; embryo coloured albuminous. — Trees or 

 shrubs ; leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets go, exstipellate ; stipules 

 small subulate, or minute ; flowers 1 in racemes axillary or branched 

 at ends of branches ; bracts small; bractlets 2 {South Africa*). 



267. Cladrastis Rafin. 4 — Receptacle obliquely obconical, glandular 

 within ; mouth oblique, higher behind. Calyx gamosepalous ; teeth 

 unequal imbricate ; 2 posterior connate higher valvate behind. 

 Corolla elongated ; standard obovate-orbicular reflexed above middle ; 

 wings obliquely oblong ; petals of slightly incurved keel ; free 

 dorsally or united. Stamens 10, very shortly connate at base, 

 otherwise free ; anthers uniform versatile. Germen shortly stipitate, 

 pauci- or co-ovulate; style tubular; apex subulate; stigma minute 

 terminal. Legume linear piano-compressed thin wingless ; scarcely 

 dehiscent; superior margin considerably thickened. Seeds oblong com- 

 pressed exarillate; embryo thick; radicle inflexed. — Trees; leaves alter- 

 nate imparipinnate ; leaflets few rather large exstipellate ; petiole 

 exstipulate, dilated at base into a conical sheath completely covering 

 several superposed axillary buds; flowers 5 in slender branching termi- 

 nal, usually nutant, racemes ; bracts and bractlets {North America, 6 

 MantchooricL'). 



26S. Castanospermum A. Cunn. 8 — Flowers nearly of Sophora ; 

 calyx large coloured ; teeth very short broad obtuse, or nearly absent. 

 Petals 4, inferior nearly equal to standard. Stamens 10 free ; 



1 Yellow. 6 Species 1. C. lutea. — C. tinctoria Rafin., 



2 This genus should hardly be separated from loc. cit. — Virgilia lutea Michx., Fl. Arb. Am., 

 Virgilia. iii. 266, t. 3 (78). — Delatjn., Herb. Amat., t. 



3 Species about 6. Lamk., III., t. 326, fig. 197.— DC, Prodr., ii. 98, n. 5. 



1. — Deless., Icon. Sel., iii. 36, t. 59. — Wight, 7 Species 1. C. amurensis. — Maackia amu- 



III., t. 78 (81). — Sm., Exot. Bot, t. 37. — Haev. rensis Rttpk. & Maxim., in Bull. Acad. Petersb., 



& Sond., Fl. Cap., ii. 267. — Baker, in Oliv. Fl. ex Maxim., Prim. Fl. Amur., 87, t. 5. 



Trop. Afr., ii. 253.— Bot. Mag., t. 2617. 8 In Hook. Bot. Misc., i. 211, t. 51, 52.— 



4 Nov. Gen. (1825); Neog., ex Tokk. & Ok., Endl., Gen., n. 6745.— B. H., Gen., 556, n. 

 Fl. N. Amer., i. t. 390.— Endl., Gen., n. 6742. — 274.— ? Viellardia Monthouz., in Mem. Acad. 

 B. H., Gen., 554, n. 269. In/on, x. 196 (ex B. 11.). 



5 White. 



