LEGUMINOS4-PAPILIONACEZ. 313 
nearly equal or 2 superior connate to a greater height, sometimes 
nearly to apex. Petals elongated; standard long obovate; wings 
obliquely oblong ; keel adhering to and often about equal to wings, 
slightly curved, often bearing a small membranous appendage on 
each side, obtuse at apex. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1); anthers 
uniform. Germen sessile or shortly stipitate; ovules «; style 
slender, more or less curved at apex; stigma terminal or oblique, 
usually broadly capitate. Legume subterete, subtubular, or rather 
compressed, transversely constricted or nearly even between seeds ; 
segments ovate or cylindrical, truncate at both ends ; septa between 
seeds finally vanishing. Seeds suborbicular or ovate, exarillate.— 
Erect or diffuse herbs, glabrous or silky ; leaves 1-foliolate 2-stipel- 
late or more rarely 3-foliolate; stipules scarious narrowed, free or 
connate; flowers in terminal or more rarely axillary racemes ; 
pedicels articulated at base and apex, usually 2 at axil of each bract ; 
bracts and bractlets usually scarious deciduous (AM tropical regions’). 
161. Phylacium Beny.2—Calyx gamosepalous sub-2-labiate; 2 
superior lobes entirely or almost entirely connate. Petals rather 
long-unguiculate; standard obovate or suborbicular, callous and 
bearing 2 inflexed auriculate appendages within above base; wings 
subfalcate, sometimes auriculate subcalcarate at base; keel shorter 
than wings, curved obtuse. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1); vexil- 
lary stamen afterwards connate with remainder; anthers uniform. 
Germen subsessile, surrounded at base by a disk prolonged into a 
ring; ovule 1; style curved, slightly thickened above middle, subu- 
late at apex; summit capitate stigmatiferous. Legume ovate plano- 
compressed, acuminate by style, reticulated indehiscent. Seed sub- 
orbicular compressed exarillate——Twining herbs; leaves pinnate 
8-foliolate ; leaflets stipellate, rather large ; stipules narrow caducous ; 
flowers in a short, irregularly cymiferous axillary raceme; bracts 
mostly small; 1 or few much increasing in size after anthesis, plaited 
cucullate membranous-foliaceous veined ; bractlets 2, inserted at apex 
of pedicel (Indian Archipelago’). 
1 Species 15. Wieut, Icon., t. 92, 250, 251.— 2 Plant. Jav. Rar., 159, t. 33.—ENDL., Gen., 
Hany. & Sonp., Fl. Cap., ii. 230.—Baxer, in  n. 6598.—B. H., Gen., 523, u. 179. 
Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., ii. 169—Watp., Rep,, i. 3 Species 1. P. bracteosum Brnn., loc. cit-— 
749; ji, 899; v. 528; Ann, ii, 419; iv, Wazr., Rep, i. 726; v. 520; Ann, iv. 833.— 
548. P. scandens Hassx., Cart. Hort. Bog., 227. 
