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teeth or short broad lobes; 2 superior more or less subconnate. 
Standard suborbicular erect or subrecurved ; wings falcate oblong ; 
keel incurved obtuse. Stamens 10, free; anthers versatile. Germen 
stipitate «-ovulate ; style incurved; stigma minute terminal capi- 
tate. Legume linear plano-compressed membranous indehiscent ; 
ventral suture narrowly winged. Seeds compressed, unequally ovate 
or oblong, funiculate; embryo coloured albuminous.—Trees or 
shrubs; leaves imparipinnate; leaflets o, exstipellate; stipules 
small subulate, or minute; flowers' in racemes axillary or branched 
at ends of branches ; bracts small; bractlets 0? (South Africa’). 
267. Cladrastis Rarin.‘—Receptacle obliquely obconical, glandular 
within ; mouth oblique, higher behind. Calyx gamosepalous; teeth 
unequal imbricate; 2 posterior connate higher valvate behind. 
Corolla elongated ; standard obovate-orbicular reflexed above middle ; 
wings obliquely oblong; petals of slightly incurved keel; free 
dorsally or united. Stamens 10, very shortly connate at base, 
otherwise free; anthers uniform versatile. Germen shortly stipitate, 
pauci- or o-ovulate; style tubular; apex subulate; stigma minute 
terminal. Legume linear plano-compressed thin wingless ; scarcely 
dehiscent; superior margin considerably thickened. Seeds oblong com- 
pressed exarillate; embryo thick; radicle inflexed.—Trees; leaves alter- 
nate imparipinnate; leaflets few rather large exstipellate; petiole 
exstipulate, dilated at base into a conical sheath completely covering 
several superposed axillary buds; flowers’ in slender branching termi- 
nal, usually nutant, racemes ; bracts and bractlets 0 (Worth America,’ 
Mantchooria’). 
268. Castanospermum A. Cunn.*—Flowers nearly of Sophora; 
calyx large coloured ; teeth very short broad obtuse, or nearly absent. 
Petals 4, inferior nearly equal to standard. Stamens 10 free; 
1 Yellow. 6 Species 1. C. lutea.—C. tinctoria Rarin., 
2 This genus should hardly be separated from loc. cit.—Virgilia lutea Micux., Fl. Arb, Am., 
Virgilia. iii, 266, t. 3 ('78).—Detaun., Herb, Amat., t. 
3 Species about 6. Lamx., JIL, t. 326, fig. 
1.—Dzeess., Icon. Sel., iii. 36, t. 59.—Wieunt, 
Iil., t. 78 (81),—S., Exot. Bot.,t. 37.—Harv. 
& Sonp., Fl. Cap., ii. 267.—Baxer, in Oliv. Fl. 
Trop. Afr. ii. 253.— Bot. Mag., t. 2617. 
4 Nov. Gen. (1825); Neog., ex Torr. & Gz., 
Fl, N. Amer, i. t. 390.—EnDL., Gen, 0. 6742.— 
B. H., Gen., 554, n. 269. 
5 White. 
197.—DC., Prodr., ii. 98, n. 5. 
7 Species 1. C. amurensis.—Maackia amu- 
rensis Rupr. & Maxrm., in Bull. Acad. Petersb., 
ex Maxim., Prim. Fl. Amur., 87, t. 5. 
8 In Hook. Bot. Misc., i. 244, t. 51, 52.— 
Enpu., Gen., n. 6745.—B. H., Gen., 556, a. 
274,— ? Viellardia Monvrovz., in Mém. Acad. 
Lyon, x. 196 (ex B. H.). 
