LEGUMINOS 2-PAPILIONACES. 825 
side, more rarely thickened dilated (Mewroscapha'). Seeds 1-«, 
suborbicular or reniform, compressed.—Trees or climbing shrubs ; 
leaves imparipinnate; leaflets opposite, rarely stipellate; stipules 
small or linear; flowers in simple or branched racemes; pedicels in 
pairs or fascicled along rachis, more rarely scattered ; bracts and 
bractlets caducous or persistent? (Zropical America, Africa, and 
Australia’). 
_ 185¢. Kanthocercis H. By.’—Receptacle shortly cupuliform, lined 
by a thin disk. Calyx gamosepalous subcampanulate, entire and 
evenly truncate or more rarely obscurely 5-toothed. Corolla 
papilionaceous ; 4 inferior petals nearly similar, free, oblong, sub- 
spathulate, tapering for a considerable distance at base, slightly 
unsymmetrical; standard nearly equal in length to wings; claw 
broader rather fleshy ; limb subobovate, shortly 2-auriculate at base, 
outermost in bud; stamens 10, slightly 2-adelphous; vexillary 
stamen entirely free, tapering at base; 9 others connate close to 
base, deciduous ; 5 alternipetalous filaments larger, furnished outside 
at base with a scale; scales connate to a variable height and un- 
equally crenate or torn at apex (as in the Simarubee); anthers 
uniform, ovate, introrse, 2-rimose versatile. Germen shortly stipu- 
late; style short subulate; apex not thickened, stigmatiferous ; 
ovules o, obliquely descending. Fruit (when unripe) surrounded 
at base by persistent calyx, apiculated by style, elongated subcylin- 
drical oo-seeded indehiscent.—A tree ; leaves alternate paripinnate ; 
2 last leaflets opposite; remainder alternate ; all petiolate entire ; 
stipules minute, scarcely visible ; flowers in branched terminal and 
axillary racemes; bracts alternate 1-flowered; bractlets 2, small 
caducous, inserted at middle of pedicel (Madagascar’). 
186. Piscidia L.’—Flowers of Lonchocarpus. Legume linear 
1 Tor., in Ann. Se. Nat., sér. 2, xx. 1387; in 
Arch. Mus., iv. 75, t. 6. 
2 Whitish, violet, or purple ; standard often 
silky ; calyx often cyathiform after anthesis. 
3 This genus, but for its indehiscent legume, 
has all the characters of Milletia (p. 259). 
Closely allied, too, are Gliricidia (p. 262), Pon- 
gamia and Deguelia (p. 328). 
4 Species about 50. Brntu., in Journ. Lian. 
Soc., iv. Suppl., 85; in Mart. Fl. Bras., Papil., 
t. 99-106; Fl. Austral., ii. 271.—H. By., in 
Adansonia, vi. 220.—Baxmr, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. 
Afr, ii. 241. 
5 Adansonia, ix. 293. 
§ Species 1. X. madagascariensis. 
7 Gen. n. 856.—Lamx., Dict., i. 4383; Suppl., 
i. 663; Jil, t. 605; DC., Prodr., ii. 267.— 
Envt., Gen., n. 6723.—B. H., Gen., 550, n. 
252.—Ichthyomethia P. Br., Jam., 276. 
