Dioelea. LEGUMINOSR. 379 
and all simple and waved; seed solitary, ovoid-reniform, about an 
in. long; brownish black, encircled on the back with a grey opaque 
illum 
Has.—Frequent in the mixed pad especially the lower gion all mond 
ita Chittagong, and Arracan.—Fl. close of R.S.; Fr. D.S.—L—SS. = 
2. M. macrocarpa, Wall.; H.f. Ind. Fl. ii. 186.—A_ powerful 
arboreous climber, the stems as thick as the arm or thicker (up to 
2 ft. girth), the. shoots thinly tawny pubescent; stipules very 
deciduous ; leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, on a 3-5 in. long glabres- 
cent petiole ; ; leaflets more or less ovate, the lateral ones very 
obliquely so, on a 3-4 lin. long petiolule, shortly subulate-cuspidate, 
4-6 in. long, chartaceous, while young herbaceous and on both 
sides appressed tawny pubescent, adult glabrous above; flowers 
large, greenish with dark-purple wings ee brownish keel, on $ an 
in. long tawny pubescent pedicels, usually by 2 or 3 from a knob 
or reduced secondary peduncle and forming an elongate pendulous 
spect of both subuiren: otis young tawny tomentose, ipl 
many-seeded, the lower joints gradually narrower and empty ; 
seeds flat, transversely Sheela nearly an inch long, 
brown, encircled with a pale-coloured. hilum 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the hill forests, especially the drier and pine 
forests of parabens: east of Tounghoo, at 4,000 to 6,000 ft. elevation ; also A'va.— 
Fl, March; Fr. H.S.—L. —SS. —=Metam. 
DIOCLEA, HBK. 
The 2 upper calyx-lobes entirely connate, the lateral ones 
smaller. Standard. orbicular or ovate, r eflexed, minutely auricled 
at the base; wings obovate or oblong, free: longer than the in- 
curved beaked or blunt keel. Stamens united in a sheath, the 
alternating ones minute and gland-like. sessile, with 2 or 
more ovules ; style incurved, beardless, thickened or a towards 
the apex, with a terminal truncate stigma, Pod compressed 
or somewhat turgid, coriaceous, 2-valved, septate, ies upper suture 
dilated or 2-winged.—Twining shrubs, with pinnately 3-foliolate 
ies Sree | ced ae stipulets present. Flowers clustered, 
in axillary ra Bracts narrow, especially the SuPer ones 
partially desctat bractlets small, persistent or deciduous 
1. D. refiexa, H.f.; Ind. FI. ii. 196.—A_ large dant ses 
