LEGUMINOS#-PAPILIONACES. 317 
few-seeded (seeds remote), either not thickened or winged at margins, 
indehiscent. Seeds reniform plano-compressed, laterally affixed ; 
embryo exalbuminous; radicle superior inflexed.—Trees or climbing 
shrubs; leaves alternate imparipinnate; leaflets o, exstipellate, 
alternate, or more rarely | terminal ; stipules usually small, caducous, 
or searcely visible ; flowers small, usually crowded in axillary or 
terminal racemes composed of numerous, regular or irregular, much 
branched cymes; bracts and bractlets usually small, caducous or 
persistent (Zropical Asia, Africa, Oceania, and America). 
169. Ecastaphyllum P. Br.'—Flowers of Dalbergia. Legume 
suborbicular, flat and rather thick or finally corky and thickened, 
submarginate at superior suture, l-seeded indehiscent.—Shrubs, 
loosely branched or sarmentose, climbing ; leaves alternate impari- 
pinnate; leaflets 1-o, usually alternate, exstipellate; flowers’ in 
short, simple or compound, axillary racemes; bracts and bractlets 
small (Zropical America and Africa’). 
170. Macherium Prrs.‘—Flowers nearly of Dalbergia ; recep- 
tacle minutely cupuliform, obtuse at base; anthers versatile ; 
cells parallel, dehiscing longitudinally. Germen 1-2-ovulate. 
Legume compressed samaroid, thickened at base, 1-seeded, tapering 
above into an oblong net-veined wing, terminated by style, inde- 
hiscent. Seed ovate orbicular or reniform ; embryo rather fleshy ; 
radicle inflexed.—Trees or shrubs, erect or climbing ; leaves impari- 
pinnate ; leaflets o, usually alternate ; stipules usually small, some- 
times hardened spinescent; inflorescences’ of Dalbergia (Lropical 
America’). 
171. Cyclolobium Bzntu.’—Flowers nearly of Macherium ; 
1 Jam., 229, t. 32, fig. 1.—L. C. Ricu., in 
Pers. Syn. ii. 277.—DC., Prodr., ii, 420.— 
B. H., Gen. 545, n. 237.—Acouroa AUBL., 
Guian., 753, t. 301.—Drakensteinia NEcK., 
Elem, un. 1344,—Hecastophyllum H. B. K., 
Nov. Gen. et Spee., vi. 387.—EnNDu., Gen, n. 
6703 (Some authors write “ Ecastophyllum”). 
2 Whitish, small. 
3 Species 4 or 5. Miq., Stirp. Surin., t. 5.— 
BENTH., in Ann. Wien. Mus., ii. 93; in Journ. 
Lim. Soe., iv. Suppl., 50; in Mart. Fl. Bras., 
Papil., 227, t. 63-65. — Baxer, in Oliv. Fi. 
Trop. Afr., ii. 236.—H. By., in Adansonia, vi. 
217. 
4 Syn, ii. 276.—Enph, Gen, n. 6710.— 
B. H., Gen., 545, u. 39, 
5 Flowers small or middle-sized ; purple, violet, 
or white. 
6 Species about 60. Prust, Symb., t.'72,73.— 
BrnTs., in Journ. Linn, Soc., iv. Suppl., 52; in 
Uart. Fl. Bras., Papil., 231, t. 67-80.— WALP., 
Rep., i. 794; Ann,, ii. 487 ; iv. 571. 
7 In Ann. Wien. Mus., ii. 92.—EnpL., Gen., 
n. 6700.—B. H., Gen., 545, n. 238. 
