324 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
leaflets opposite exstipellate ; flowers’ crowded along twigs of a 
terminal panicle; bracts minute ; bractlets small persistent ” (Vene- 
zuela’), 
184, Bocoa, Avsi.'—Flowers polygamous. Receptacle minute 
concave, lined by a thin disk. Calyx tubular or subcampanulate ; 
teeth 2-5, irregular unequal. Petals 4, either nearly free or connate 
at base into a tube with base of stamens, nearly equal, linear, ex- 
serted, corrugated above, imbricated in estivation ; highest outer- 
most. Stamens 10; 5 alternate longer; filaments connate into a 
tube with or without petals; anthers short didymous introrse 2- 
rimose. Germen (rudimentary in male flower) sessile or shortly 
stipitate ; ovules 2 or few, descending; style short; apex obliquely 
dilated, stigmatiferous. Fruit subdrupaceous or coriaceous, obliquely 
obovate or curved, ]-seeded, finally 2-valved. Seed exalbuminous ; 
embryo thick ; cotyledons fleshy ; radicle short curved.—Trees, un- 
armed ; leaves simple coriaceous; petiole short; stipules small ; 
flowers‘ in axillary spikes ; bracts small deciduous 1-flowered ; bract- 
lets persistent for a longer time (Guiana, Pacific Ocean’). 
185. Lonchocarpus H. B. K.’—Flowers almost those of Cou- 
blandia or Milletia ; calyx evenly truncate or very shortly 5-toothed. 
Standard often silky, bare or 2-appendiculate at base above claw; 
wings oblique, slightly adherent to keel above claw. Stamens 10, 
2-adelphous at base, afterwards connate into a closed tube. Germen 
subsessile or stipitate; ovules 2-0; style curved slender; apex 
minute stigmatiferous. Legume indehiscent, oblong or elongated, 
flat, membranous or coriaceous (Sphinctolobium’); style terminal ; 
sutures not winged ; superior suture traversed by a nerve on each 
1 « Orange-coloured.” 
2 Species 1. F. Fendleri Bentu., loc, cit. 
3 Guian., Suppl. 38, t. 391 (1775).—Bsntu., 
4 Small, yellow. 
5 Species 3 or 4, of which 1 belongs to the 
Old World. Roxs., Pi. Coromand., iii. t. 263.— 
in Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. 146.—H. Bn., in 
Adansonia, ix. fase. 7.— Inocarpus Forst., 
Char. Gen., 65, t. 38 (1776).—Garrn., Fruct., 
iii, 114, t. 199, 200, fig. 1—EnpL., Gen., n. 
2017.—B. H., Gen. 552, n. 260.—Aniotum 
Sonanp., mss, (ex EwDz., loc. cit.).—Etaballia 
Bewtu., in Hook. Journ., ii. 99.—Hoox., Icon., 
t. 453.— ? Inodaphnis MiQ., Fl. Ind. Bat., 
Suppl. i. 857 (ex BuntH.; Chrysobalanea, ex 
Mig,, in Aun. Mus. Lugd.-Bat., iii. 89). 
Bu., Bijdraj., 551.—GuILLEM., Zeph. Tait., in 
Ann, Se. Nat, sér. 2, vii. 246. 
5 Nov. Gen. et Spec., vi. 888 (part.).—DC., 
Prodr., ii. 259 (part.).—ENDL., Gen., u. 6544.— 
B. H., Gen., 548, n, 249.— ? Clompanus AUBL., 
Guian., '773.—Philenoptera FENnzi, in Flora 
(1844), 812.—Capassa Ku., in Pet. Mossamb., 
Bot., 27, t. 5. 
7 Voa., in Linnea, xi. 417. 
