LEGUMINOS2#-PAPILIONACEA. 327 
style curved subulate ; apex not thickened, stigmatiferous. Legume 
stipitate oblong flat, membranous or subcoriaceous, smooth indehis- 
cent; margins thin or nerviform. Seed large plano-compressed 
subreniform.—Trees or shrubs; leaves opposite or in verticils of 
3-4, imparipinnate ; leaflets opposite; stipules rather thick, cadu- 
cous ; flowers' racemose ; racemes in threes or single 3-fid at nodes 
of last year’s branches; bracts and bractlets small, or rather large 
and inserted at top of pedicel (Zropical America’). 
189? Behaimia Griszs.’—Calyx gamosepalous sub-2-labiate ; 
lobes 5, short ; 2 superior connate to a greater height. Petals long- 
unguiculate ; standard orbicular reflexed ; wings spathulate-oblong ; 
keel-petals free oblique, nearly similar to wings. Stamens 10, 
2-adelphous (9-1); 9 inferior connate into a sheath cleft above ; 
2 posterior of these connate to a less height than others or scarcely 
at all; anthers versatile. Germen sessile; ovules few (usually 6) ; 
style slender subulate ; apex minute stigmatiferous. Legume sessile 
oblong-elliptical flat submembranous, acute at both ends. Seeds 
usually 1, funiculate reniform, much compressed.—A lofty tree or a 
shrub ; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; leaflets opposite exstipellate ; 
stipules minute scale-like obtuse ; flowers racemose ; racemes simple 
or branched, terminal and springing from axils of higher leaves of 
twigs; bracts narrow 1-flowered ; bractlets minute, inserted at top 
of pedicel below flower* (Cuéda’). 
190. Ostryocarpus Hook. F..—Flowers almost those of Dal- 
bergia ; calyx subtruncate; teeth small. Standard broadly rhom- 
boidal; wings free; keel curved obtuse, petals dorsally connate. 
Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1). Germen pauciovulate. Legume 
suborbicular plano-compressed coriaceous wingless, apiculate by 
terminal style, indehiscent. Seed broadly oblong, transverse plano- 
compressed.—A sarmentose shrub ; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; 
leaflets opposite ; flowers’ in compound much branched axillary 
1 Yellow. 4 This genus (“in habit somewhat resembling 
2 Species 12 or 13. BeEnra., in Ann. Wien. Ateleia,” BENTH.) is allied to Platymiscium and 
Vus., ii. 104; in Seem. Herald, 121,t.21; in Hymenolobium, while by its fruit and flowers it 
Journ, Linn. Soc., iv. Suppl., 80; in Mart. Fl. comes very near to Dalbergia. . 
Bras., Papil., 271, t. 96, 97. 5 Species 1. B. cubensis GRisEs., loc. cit., 78 
3 Cat. Plant. Cub. 77.—B. H., Gen., 1002, 6 Niger, 316.—B, H., Gen., 548, u. 248. 
n. 246 a, 7 Yellowish white. 
