248 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
persistent striated ; flowers' 1, 2, or o at each axil, in crowded 
racemes ; pedicels often geminate; bracts stipuliform persistent, free 
or variably connate; bractlets 2, lateral below flower, usually larger 
membranous striated, persistent (4// hot regions’). 
38? Platycyamus Benta.i—*“ Lobes of calyx short, 2 superior 
connate into one, emarginate. Standard suborbicular, narrowed and 
without appendages at base ; wings falcate oblong; keel about equal 
to wings; petals free. Stamens, vexillary free, remainder connate ; 
anthers uniform. Germen sessile, oo-ovulate; style filiform curved 
beardless ; stigma small terminal. Legume‘ large, broadly linear 
plano-compressed, 2-valved; superior suture, winged. Seeds broad 
reniform plano-compressed estrophiolate.—Stem woody (arborescent ? 
or high climbing?); leaves pinnate 3-foliolate stipellate; leaflets 
large; stipules deciduous or 0. Flowers’ rather large, racemose 
along branches of a terminal panicle, one flower to each bract. 
Bracts small deciduous; bractlets minute, very caducous” (Brazi/’). 
39. Dioclea H.B.K.’—Receptacle obconical oblique lined by a 
glandular disk somewhat projecting round gyneceum. Calyx gamo- 
sepalous subgibbous; lobes 4 (2 superior connate into one broader 
entire), much imbricated. Standard orbicular or reflexed, furnished 
at base with inflexed auriculate appendages, and sometimes with 
2 interior scales; wings obovate or oblong, equal to or a little 
shorter than keel, free; keel curved, obtuse or beaked. Stamens 10, 
2-adelphous; vexillary stamen free at base, higher more or less 
connate with remainder; 9 filaments connate into a sheath, oblique 
at base, broadly cleft dorsally; anthers uniform, or 5 alternate 
smaller effete (Pachylobium, Platylobium). Germen shortly stipitate 
2—«-ovulate ; style curved beardless, thickened or dilated at apex ; 
stigma evenly or obliquely truncate, terminal often pulpy. Legume 
1 Blue, red, or white ; handsome. 
2 Vent., Ch. de Plant., t. 26.—Bot. Mag,, t. 
1542, 2111, 3165.— Beyru., in Ann. Wien. 
Mus,, ii. 114; in Journ. Linn. Soc., ii. 33; in 
Mart. Fl. Bras., Papil., t. 31-33 ; Fl. Austral., 
ii, 242.—Baker, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., ii, 
176. 
3 In Mart. Fl. Bras., Papil., 323.—B. H., 
Gen., 531, u. 200. 
4 «Entirely that of Phyllocarpus” (BENTH.), 
a genus, as before observed, anomalous among 
Cesalpiniee. See pp. 92, 170. 
5 « Red (?).” 
6 Species 1. P. Regnellii Benrn., loc. cit. 
7 Nov. Gen, et Spec., vi. 437 (nec SPRENG.).— 
DC., Prodr., ii. 403.—EnDL., Gen., n. 6662.— 
B.H., Gen., 536, n.216.—Aymenospron SPRENG., 
Syst., Cur. Post., 283.—Crepidotropis Waxp., 
in Linnea, xiv. 296.—Trichodowm P, Bravv., 
ex H. By., in Adansonia, vi. 228. 
