242 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
25. Cochlianthus Brnru.'—“ Calyx ; 2 superior teeth connate into 
1, nearly entire ; 3 lateral smaller; lowest longer. Standard broadly 
ovate, furnished with inflexed auriculate appendages; wings oblong, 
slightly overtopping standard ; keel linear spirally twisted, not over- 
topping wings, Vexillary stamen free; remainder connate; anthers 
uniform. Germen very shortly stipitate, o-ovulate; style filiform 
beardless ; stigma peltate dilated. Legume linear curved, somewhat 
flattened, 2-valved, obscurely septate within. Seeds square; hilum short, 
estrophiolate.—A twining herb, blackening when dry. Leaves pinnate 
3-foliolate stipellate. Flowers middle-sized, in fascicled racemes on 
slender axillary peduncles ; rachis of fascicle node-like or shortly de- 
veloped. Bracts or bractlets minute, very caducous, or 0” (WVepau/). 
26. Butea Korn.—Receptacle short, lined by a more or less pro- 
minent disk. Calyx large, silky within; teeth or lobes very 
unequal; 2 superior connate into a broad, entire or emarginate 
lip; 3 inferior much smaller, imbricated when very young. Petals 
very dissimilar ; standard recurved acute, without appendages ; wings 
falcate, nearly equal to standard, adhering to standard and curved keel. 
Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1); anthers uniform. Germen sessile or 
shortly stipitate ; style curved beardless ; stigma terminal, minute or 
truncate ; ovules 2, descending ; micropyle extrorse superior. Legume 
shortly stipitate, unequally oblong or broadly linear; at base flat for 
a considerable distance, wing-like, indehiscent, effete; close to apex 
thick, l-seeded 2-valved. Seed plano-compressed, suborbicular or 
reniform exarillate ; embryo fleshy exalbuminous.—Trees or sarmen- 
tose twining shrubs ; leaves pinnate 3-foliolate exstipellate; lateral 
leaflets very unsymmetrical ; stipules minute caducous; flowers’ in 
short racemes or racemose or fascicled-panicled spikes; bracts and 
bractlets caducous (Zropical Asia‘). 
27. Spatholobus Hassx.’—Receptacle minute concave, lined by a 
(Glycine Apios L., Spec., 1067 ;—Scuxuur, 
Handb., 198).—Torr. & Gr., Fl. N. Amer, i. 
282.—Nurt., Gen, ii. 118.—Bot. Mag, t. 
1198.—Watp., Rep., i. 770. 
1In Plant. Jungh., i. 234.—B. H., Gen., 588, 
n. 206. 
2 Roxs., Pl. Coromand., i. 22, t. 21, 22.— 
DC., Prodr., ii. 414 (part.).—Enp., Gen., n. 
6670 (part).—B. H., Gen., 583, u. 207.—Plaso 
RaEED., Hort. Malab., vi. 29, t. 16, 17 (ex 
Apawns., Fam. des Pl., ii. 325). 
5 « Orange or flame-coloured ; handsome.” 
4 Roxs., Fl. Ind., iii, 244.—Wiaut & Ary., 
Prodr., i. 216.—Hook., Bot. Misc., ii. t. suppl., 
32.—BeEnra., in Pl, Jungh., i. 238.—Watp., 
Rep., i. 769; Ann., iv. 560. 
5 In Flora (1842), ii. Beibl., 52—Brnru., in 
Plant. Jungh.,i. 238; Gen., 584, n. 208.— Dreb- 
