RUB I ACE JE. 487 



1 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 j lobes 5, unequal, imbricate ; tube sometimes furnished 

 internally with 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 (Euplatycarpum) 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 (Euplatycarpum) 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.*) 



177 ? Dolicholobium A. Gkay.* — Flowers 4, 5-merous ; receptacle 

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

 or 4, 5-lobed, ciUate, 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 



' PI. ^quin. ii. 81, t. 104.— H. B. K. Sov. ^ Large or rather so, pink (or white ?), odo- 



6en. et Sp. iii. 51 ; Ji,urn. Fhys. Ixxxvii. 454. — rous, showy. 



Endl. Gen. n. 4129.— Bur. Bignon. 81.— B. H. ■• Spec. 4, 6. DC. Prodr. ix. 233.— Spbeng. 



Gen. ii. 44, n. 46.— H. Bn. Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. Syst. i. 622 [SicHiigia). 



n. 28 (1879). ° -P' oc. Amer. Acad. iv. 308.— B. H. Gen. ii. 41, 



' SpiiTjcE, ex Benth. Sook. Kew Journ. fi. n. 35. 



338; Trans. Linn. Soc. xxii. 206, t. 52-54.— « Nearly of Garrfmm. 



Bur. Biynon. 80, 100.— B.H. Gen. ii. 44, 1228, i' Like that oi Siliquorandia, but said to be 



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



