320 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
perior teeth or lobes connate to a variable height. Corolla almost 
that of Dalbergia ; standard broadly ovate or suborbiculate. Sta- 
mens 10, 1- or 2-adelphous ; sheath longitudinally cleft above or on 
both sides; more rarely vexillary stamen free; anthers versatile. 
Germen sessile or stipitate; ovules 2-6, descending; style slender 
curved ; apex minute stigmatiferous. Legume compressed, ovate or 
oftener orbicular, more rarely oval-oblong and more or less oblique, 
seminiferous and more or less thickened or hardened at middle ; 
sometimes unevenly corky (Moutouchi'); sometimes tapering all 
round into a wing, echinate at middle (ehinodiscus’), or almost en- 
tirely membranous thin (Amphymenium*); more rarely longer than 
broad, coriaceous, rather thick (Ancylocalyz*). Seeds 1 or more 
rarely 2, separated by a septum; radicle short curved.—Trees, un- 
armed ; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; leaflets alternate or nearly 
opposite, exstipellate; stipules usually minute or inconspicuous ; 
flowers’ in simple or branched, axillary and terminal racemes ; bracts 
and bractlets small caducous’ (Tropical Asia, Africa, and America’). 
177? Poecilanthe Bunra.’—“ Calyx turbinate at base ; 2 superior 
lobes connate into 1 sub-2-dentate. Standard orbicular inappen- 
diculate; wings falcate-oblong or obovate; keel curved subrostrate, 
petals dorsally connate. Stamens all connate into a sheath cleft 
above ; 0 anthers longer, affixed close to base; 5 alternate shorter 
Germen subsessile or shortly stipitate, o-ovulate ; style 
Legume... . (when 
versatile. 
filiform curved; stigma small terminal. 
Spacu, Suit. & Buffon, i. 362.—Enpu., Gen., n 
6705.—B. H., Gen., 547, n. 244 (incl. : Amphy- 
menium H. B. K., ? Ancylocalyx Tux., Echino- 
discus DC., Moutoucht AvsL., Phellocarpus 
Bentu., ? Vatairea Avs. [according to 
BEnTH., not SaG., as will be seen below]). 
1 Aust, Guian., ii. 748, t. 299.—Griselinia 
Neox., Elem., n. 1358 (nec Forst.).— Mou- 
touchia DC. (sect. Pterocarpi).— BENTH., in 
Ann. Wien. Mus., ii. 94.—EnDL., Gen., n. 6704. 
2 DC., loc. cit. (sect. Pterocarpi).—BENTH., 
loc. cit., 94.—ENDL., Gen. n. 6706.—-Wein- 
reichia REICHB., Consp., 152, 
3H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec., vi. 380.— 
Brntu., loc. cit., 95.—Phellocarpus BENTH. 
(loc. ‘cit.), 106, is, according to the same author 
(Gen., 547), an Amphymenium “whose fruit is 
deformed (by the bite of some insect ?).” 
4 Tun. in Ann. Se, Nat., sér. 2, xx. 136, t. 
2; in Arch. Mus., iv. 73. 
5 Yellow, more rarely whitish mixed with 
violet, otten handsome. 
§ Vatairea AUBL. (Guian. 755, t. 302.— 
DC., Prodr., ii. 521.—ENpL., Gen., n. 6781) is 
hesitatingly referred by Bentuam to Pterocarpus 
(see above, p. 319, note 7). 
7 Species about 15. Jaca, Amer., 283, t. 
182, fig. 92.—Vant, Symb., ii. 79.—Roxs., Pl. 
Coromand., ii. 9, t. 116.—Prrs., Syn., ii. 277.— 
Wiest, Jil., t. 78; Icon. t. 246—Guity. & 
Perr., Fl. Seneg. Tent. i. 228, t. 54.—A. 
Rica., Fl. Abyss. Tent., t. 45.—BeEntTH., in 
Journ. Linn. Soc., iv. Suppl., 74; in Mart. Fl. 
Bras., Papil., 266, t. 92.—Baxer, in Oliv, Fl. 
Trop. Afr., ii. 237.—H. By., in Adansonia, vi. 
217.—Watp., Ann., ii. 436; iv. 570. 
8 BENTH., in Journ. Linn. Soc., iv. Suppl., 
80.—B. H., Gen., 547, n. 245. 
