56 XLix. coNNAEACBai. (J. D. Hooker.) [Ellifanthus. 



** Ltaves pubescent or tommtose beneath. 



4. E. tomentosus, J^urz in Jour. As. Soc. Beng. 1870, pt. ii. 305 ; 

 leaflet elliptic ovate or orMcular obtuse acute or obtusely acuminate densely 

 pubescent beneatli> nerves -6-% pairs very slender. OonnaTus ? monophyllus, 

 Wall. Cat. 8551 (Oonnaracea). 



Pegu, Maetaban, and Thnassbeim, Wallich., &c. — Distkib. Siam. 



Branches densely tomentoseVith fulvQus haix. Leaflets 4-6 by 2-31in., usually ellip, 

 tic or elliptic-lanceolate, but often broader and sometimes quite orbicular, coriaceous, 

 glabrous, shining and very finely reticulated above ; petiole ^-j in. Bacemes ^ in., 

 densely tomentose. i^oviers ^ in. diam. Sepals obtuse. Petefe twice as long, oblong, 

 obtuse. Filaments haivy. Ovary stngose. topiaZe 1^ in. (2 in., Kurz), semicircular 

 or obovoid, contracted into the stout stalk, obtuse, apiculate, densely velvety, sutures 

 rovinded, valves woody, glabrous within. 



5. E. Griffitliii, Hooh. f. ; leaves ovate-lanceolate caudate-acuminate 

 nisty-pubescent benesith, nerves 8-10 pairs strong beneath. 



Malacca, -Griffith. — Disteib. Borneo. 



Branches slender, rusty pubescent' or tomentose. Leaflet 4-5 "by lJ-2 in., coria- 

 ceous, glabrous and shining above, tomentose chiefly on the nerves beneath ; petiole 

 ^-^ in. Bacemes-^ in., few-flowered, Oapsules | in. long, curved, semicircular, beaked, 

 densely clothed with rusty velvety .tomentum, stalk very short, valves woody, glabrous 

 within. 



Okdbb L. IiEGUItlXNOSS:. (By J. G. Baker,. F.L.S.) 



Herbs, shrubs, or irees. Leaves stipulate and usually alternate, pinnate or 

 digitate or simple, often stipeUate, sometimes with the rachis ending in a tendril. 

 Inflorescence axillary leaf-opposed or terminal, <nsually simply Taeemose or 

 panicled ; bracts and bracteoles usually both present. Flowers usually irre- 

 gular, hermaphrodite,_rarely regular or polygamous. Sepak'5, comKned or free, 

 often unequal, soraB times combined into two lips. Pefafe 5, rarely fewer by 

 arrest, usually free and unequal. Stamens normally ten, perigynous or almost 

 liypogynoiis, rarely fewer by arrest or indefinite ; filaments free or variously com- 

 bined. Anthers 2-ceUed, the dehiscence almost always longitudinal. Ovary 

 free; style simple, cylindrical, usually declinate; stigma capitate, terminal 

 or oblique. Omdes one or more on the ventral suture. Truit usually dry, a pod 

 splitting open along both sutures, sometimes continuous and indebiscent, at 

 others separating into 1-seeded joints. Seeds usually -exalbuminous ; cotyledons 

 foliaceous or amygdaloid, with a straight or infl^exed acciunbent radicle.— 

 DisiRiB. One of 4Jie most cosmopolitan of natural orders, the second largest of 

 flowering plants, containing between 16OOO and 7000 knowm species. Of the 

 three suborders it is only the first that is cosmopolitan, the two others not 

 reaching beyond the tropical and warm temperate aones. 



Bym-SDWil. PABILIONACE^. CwoZfa papilionaceous. JPeiofo irregular, 

 imbricated, the uppermost (standard) outermost, the four others in two opposite 

 pairs. Stamens definite. 



Tribe I. Fodaljrrleae. Stamens free. Pod dehiscent. Leaves digitate. 

 Shrub with connate stipules.. . . . . , . \ Piptanthus. 



_ Herbs with free stipules .2. Theemopsis. 



Tribe II. 'G-eiaisteeB. Stamens monadelphous. Pod dehiscent, not jointed. 

 Xe«u)e««imple'Or digitately 3-foliolate. 



