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glandular, often. 12-lobed, 10-furrowed. Calyx companulate or 
sacciform ; mouth oblique truncate, quite entire or sometimes cleft 
and 1-2-lobate, more rarely minutely toothed, very rarely more 
deeply, unequally or nearly equally, 5-toothed. Petals very un- 
equal; standard large or elongated, erect or patent, sometimes 
falcate, raised on a short or long claw, without appendages at base; 
wings short or very short, more rarely 0; keel smaller than stan- 
dard, longer or shorter than wings ; all petals free or more or less 
connate dorsally. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous; 9-connate at middle; 
vexillary stamen free, or connate close to base with remainder ; 
anthers uniform. Germen stipitate; ovules «; style curved beard- 
less ; apex subulate, stigma minute terminal. Legume stipitate, 
nearly straight or falcate, linear, tapering at apex and base, compressed 
or subterete, more rarely flat at base, sinuous or constricted between 
seeds, sometimes 2-valved, sometimes dehiscing as a follicle along 
superior suture, more rarely hardly dehiscent, seeds oblong, exaril- 
late, uniform in colour or particoloured ; hilum lateral, oblong or 
linear—Trees or erect shrubs, thick, more rarely subherbaceous ; 
twigs often prickly; leaves alternate pinnate 2-foliolate; stipels 
gland-like; stipules small; inflorescence racemose ; racemes axillary 
leafless, or terminal bearing leaves at base ; flowers’ solitary or in twos 
or threes in axil of each bract ; bracts alternate’ (4U/ hot regions’). 
21. Strongylodon Voc.‘—Receptacle slightly concave, lined by a 
disk ; disk somewhat projecting round stalk of germen, shortly 
toothed, calyx gamosepalous; teeth 5, nearly equal (2 superior 
1 Scarlet, purplish, or greenish yellow, usually 
handsome. 
2 In BentTHAM’s opinion (Gen., 532) the fol- 
lowing genera, proposed by various authors, 
scarcely form well-defined sections of this genus : 
(a) Micropteryx Waxp. (in Linnea, xxiii. 739 ; 
Ann., ii. 425), keel gamopetalous, overlapping 
dwarf wings.—(b) Duchassaingia Wap. (loc. 
cit. 741), keel gamopetalous, claw of standard 
long.—(c) Stenotropis Hassk. (Retzia, i. 183), 
petals of keel free, calyx sometimes cleft.—(d) 
Chirocalyx Mutssn. (in Hook. Journ., ii. 97), 
teeth of calyx rather long, distinct.—(e) Hypa- 
phorus Hassx. (Hort. Bog. ed. nov., 197), 
Jegume flat, empty for u considerable distance 
from base, containing seeds at apex, turgid over 
seeds, 2-valved.—(f) Macrocymbium Wate. (in 
Flora [1853], 149), standard (called sphalma) 
shorter than calyx.—(g) Xyphantus Rarin. (Fi. 
Indov., 108), including the species whose calyx 
is not spathe-like. 
3 Species about 25. Jacg., Hort. Schenbr., 
t. 216, 466; Fragm., t. 119.—Roxs., Pl. Coro- 
mand., t. 219, 220.—PrzsL, Symbol., t. 46, 47, 
68.— Wieut, Jcon., t. 58, 247.—Brort., in 
Trans. Linn. Soc., xiv. t, 10-12.—Sweet, Brit. 
Fl. Gard., t. 142, 214.—Brntu., in Mart. Fl. 
Bras., Papil., 172; Fl. Austral., ii. 253.— 
Harv. & Sonp., Fl. Cap., ii. 236.—Harv., 
Thes. Cap., t. 61, 62.—GavDICH., in Freye. 
Voy. Bot., t.114.—A, Ricu., Fl, Abyss. Tent., 
t. 41.—BaxeEr, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., ii. 181. 
—Bot. Reg., t. 313, 389, 736, 750, 1246, 1827, 
1617.—Bot. Mag., t. 877, 2161, 2431, 3227, 
3234.—Watp., Rep., i. 768; ii. 901; v. 585; 
Ann.,, ii. 428; iv. 557. 
4 In Linnea, x. 585.—EnpL., Gen., 6668.-- 
B. H., Gen., 532, n. 203. 
