LEGUMINOS#-CHSALPINIEZ. 187 
dinally rimose; in 2 stamens alternating with standard longer 
larger fertile ; in 8 others smaller; sometimes sterile, more rarely 
“ entirely absent.” Germen shortly stipitate, 2-ovulate ; style slender, 
stigma small terminal. Fruit shortly stipitate, suborbicular or 
ovate, compressed, prickly outside, 2-valved. Seed 1, descending ; 
funicle dilated at hilum into an aril; embryo exalbuminous fleshy. 
—Unarmed trees; leaves paripinnate; leaflets few coriaceous; 
stipules minute or 0; bracts and bractlets scale-like caducous (Zro- 
pical Asia). See p. 139. 
68. Cryptosepalum Benru.—‘ Calyx tube very short, lined by a 
disk: segments 4, minute scale-like. Petal 1, sessile orbiculate. 
Stamens 3; filaments short; anthers oblong; cells dehiscing longitu- 
dinally. Germen shortly stipitate, free 2-ovulate; style filiform ; 
stigma terminal truncate. Legume... . ?”’—A small unarmed 
tree; leaves paripinnate; leaves 1—2-jugate coriaceous oblique, 
lowest rather smaller; stipules minute; flowers in short axillary 
racemes; bracts at base of young raceme scale-like imbricated, after- 
wards deciduous, on raceme minute caducous, bractlets rather large, 
concave valvate including bud (Zroyical Africa). See p. 140. 
VIII. DIMORPHANDREAZ. 
69. Dimorphandra Scnorr.—Flowers regular; receptacle very 
short, rather concave. Calyx campanulate, evenly 5-lobed or 
5-toothed. Petals 5, subhypogynous; nearly equal, imbricated ; 
highest petal innermost. Stamens 10, free subhypogynous; 5 
oppositipetalous equal free, anthers introrse 2-celled 2-rimose; 5 
alternipetalous sterile, either sterile, somewhat clubbed at apex (Hudi- 
morphandra, Mora), or dilated thick fleshy unevenly obpyramidal 
cohering into a body, more. or less projecting fertile stamens and 
deciduous on anthesis (Pocillum). Germen central, shortly stipitate, 
« -ovulate; style very short or nearly absent ; stigma small terminal. 
Legume elongated compressed coriaceous—subligneous 2-valved ; 
endocarp woody, sometimes separable from exocarp, transversely 
septate between seeds. Seeds orbicular or elongated, embryo 
exalbuminous; radicle short straight included.—Unarmed trees ; 
leaves pinnate or 2-pinnate; stipules minute or 0; flowers small in 
