RUB I ACE ^,. 487 



J 76 ? Platycarpum H. B.' — Flowers irregular; receptacle de- 

 pressed obconical, enclosing adnate germen. Calyx 4, 5-lobed or 

 partite, deciduous, sometimes circumscissous at base. Corolla obliquely 

 funnel-shaped or hypocrateriform, pubescent or sericeous within or on 

 both sides ; lobes 5, unequal, imbricate ; tube sometimes furnished 

 internally wdth a villose longitudinal middle line ; throat more or less 

 villose. Stamens 5, inserted at or under throat of corolla, unequal ; 

 filaments slender; anthers dorsifixed oblong introrse, versatile, 2- 

 rimose. Germen inferior, 2-celled; disk epigynous annular (whitish), 

 to 10-lobulate or {Henriquezia ^) obtusely 5-lobed ; branches of terete 

 style 2, rather acute, erect. Ovules in cells 2 (Eiiplatycarpum) or 

 2-4 {Henriquezia), obliquely descending suborbicular, inserted on 

 axile placenta. Fruit capsular sub-2~dymous, suborbicular or obcor- 

 date, marked at apex with a more or less deep hollow and also at the 

 base (Enplatycarpum) or to middle {Henriquezia) with a rather promi- 

 nent scar of the receptacular margin, marginally loculicidal ; valves 2, 

 with a thin septum in the middle. Seeds in cells 1-4, orbicular or 

 reniform, broadly alate at margin; ^^ cotyledons of exalbuminous 

 embryo broad thin lateral, emarginate or 2-lobed at base ; radicle 

 minute turned towards hilum." — Trees sometimes lofty; leaves 

 opposite or 3, 4-nate, oblong or lanceolate penninerved coriaceous, 

 sometimes tomentose, petiolate; stipules interpetiolar large, caducous; 

 flowers ^ in terminal compound cymiferous racemes ; branches sub- 

 verticillate. {Venezuela, N. Brazil.^) 



Ill ? Dolicholobium A. Gkay.^ — Flowers 4, 5-merous ; receptacle 

 long-cylindrical. Calyx wide cupular or short funnel-shaped, truncate 

 or 4, 5-lobed, ciHate, persistent. Tube of hypocrateriform corolla * 

 long, glabrous within ; lobes of limb obtuse, contorted. Stamens 5, 6, 

 inserted in corolla tube, enclosed; filaments complanate; anthers 

 basifixed elongate introrse. Germen 2-celled ; disk orbicular ; style 

 dilated above; branches oblong petaloid more or less dilated, '' stig- 

 matose to costa." Ovules oo, linear, inserted on elongate placentas 

 adnate to septum. Fruit ^ ''capsular cylindrical septicidal; seeds 



1 PL Mquin. ii. 81, t. 104.— H. B. K. Ncv. ^ Large or rather so, pink (or white ?), odo- 



Gen. et Sp. iii. 51 ; Jcurn. Phys. Ixxxvii. 454. — rous, showy. 



Endl. (?e>2. n. 4129.— BuK. ^2>»o«. 81.— B. H. ■•Spec. 4, 5. DC. Prodr. ix. 233.— Spreng. 



Gen. ii. 44, n, 46.— H. Bn. Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. Si/st. i. 622 {Sicki>ijia). 



n. 28 (1879). * Froc. Amer. Acad. iv. 308.— B. H. Gen. ii. 41, 



3 Spkuce, ex Benth. Hook. Kew Journ. vi. n. 35. 



338; Trans. Linn. Soc. xxii. 206, t. 52-54.^ « Nearly of Gariffnj'a. 



Bur. Bignon. 80, 100.— B.H. Gen. ii. 44, 1228, ^ Like that of Siliquorandia, but said to be 



n. 45.— H. Bx. loc. cit. capsular-dehiscent. 



