260 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
Calyx gamosepalous, subentire truncate or shortly 5-toothed; 2 
superior teeth absent or sometimes subconnate. Standard large, 
patent or reflexed, bare or callous within above claw, more rarely 
(Otosema’) furnished with inflexed auriculate appendages ; wings free 
falcate-oblong, free or cohering at apex ; keel curved obtuse. Stamens 
10, 2-adelphous (9-1) at base; vexillary stamen always or after- 
wards free (Padbruggea’), or oftener more or less connate at middle 
with remainder; anthers uniform; connective often subglandular. 
Germen sessile or shortly stipitate; ovules o ; style terete glabrous 
inflexed; apex subtruncate or capitate. Legume linear oblong or 
lanceolate, plano-compressed rigid, coriaceous or woody, 2-valved or 
oftener late or scarcely dehiscent. Seeds exarillate—Trees, or erect 
or climbing shrubs ; leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets’ usually stipellate ; 
stipules small; flowers scattered or fascicled along rachis of ter- 
minal, simple or branched racemes ; bracts and bractlets deciduous’ 
(Tropical Asia, Africa, and Oceania’). 
61? Sarcodum Lovr.'—Flowers (apparently) of Miletia ; calyx 
subtruncate; teeth very short. “Standard large patent; wings 
oblong; keel curved obtuse. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1); anthers 
uniform. Germen sessile, surrounded at base by an annular disk, 
oo-ovulate. Legume linear straight terete fleshy (indehiscent?).— 
A high-climbing shrub; leaves imparipinnate; leaflets 0, small 
oblong stipellate; racemes terminal subpanicled; younger bracts 
subulate-acuminate hairy” ’ (Cochinchina). 
62. Wistaria Norr..—Calyx 4-toothed; superior tooth shortly 
2-toothed or 2-crenate at apex; 3 inferior teeth usually a little longer 
1 Benta., in Pl, Jungh., i. 248. 
2 Miq., Fl. Ind.-Bat,, i. p. i. 150. 
3 Rather large, often evergreen reticulate 
penniveined. 
4 This genus, closely allied to the large-leaved 
Tephrosias, to Mundulea, Giliricidia, and some 
species of Lonchocarpus and Wistaria, appears 
to be entirely artificial, and perhaps would be 
better considered a section of Wistaria. 
5 WieutT, Icon., t. 86, 207.—A. Ricu., Fl. 
Abyss. Tent., t. 35.—Hoox., Icon, t. 788. 
Bentu., Fl. Hongk., 78; Fl. Austral., ii. 211.— 
Bakes, in Oliv, Fl. Trop. Afr., ii. 126.—H. Bn., 
in Adansonia, vi. 222.—WaLP., Rep., i. 799; 
v. 544; Ann, i. 254; iv. 572. 
6 Fl. Cochinch., ed. Ulyssip. (1790), 462.— 
DC., Prodr., ii. 522.—B. H., Gen., 498, n. 
108. 
7 A very uncertain genus, which, “judging 
from the characters given by LOUREIRO and an 
imperfect specimen, appears to be allied to Mil- 
letia ; but the legume is different, and the leaves 
are rather those of Tephrosia.” (BENTH.) 
8 Gen. N. Amer. Plant., ii. 115 (err. Wis- 
teria)—DC., Prodr., ii. 390.—Spaon, Suit. a 
Buffon, i. 256.— Eyv1., Gen., n. 6671.—B. H., 
Gen., 499, n. 105.—Thyrsanthus Ext., in Journ, 
Acad. Philad., i. 371.—Diplonyr Rartn., Fi. 
Inudov., 101. 
