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PHANEROGAMIA. 



2. Strongylodon macrobotrys, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 49.) 



S. foliolis oblongis; racemis pendentibus? longissimis; pedicellis flore 

 brevioribus; calyce truncato obsolete quadri-quinquedeiitato ; carina 

 leviter incurva; ovario quadrir-sex-ovulaio. 



Hab. In the mountains near Banos, Luzon, Philippine Islands. 



Probably a woody vine, with herbaceous and twining branchlets, 

 glabrous throughout. There is only a short leafy branch, with the 

 leaflets disarticulated, and a flowering raceme in the collection, unac- 

 companied by notes. Stipules caducous, or a depressed gland in their 

 place. Leaves pinnately trifoliolate. Stipels setaceous, deciduous. 

 Leaflets oblong or ovate-oblong, acuminate, green both sides, somewhat 

 coriaceous in texture, triplinerved and veiny, about 4 inches long; 

 the terminal one slightly cuneate, the others rounded at the base. 

 Raceme very long, probably axillary and pendent, 4i feet long, in- 

 cluding the short peduncle, above which it bears a series of alternate, 

 small and salient nodes, each bearing a fascicle of from 3 to 5 

 flowers, on pedicels of an inch and a half in length. Bracts and 

 bractlets not seen (either caducous or obsolete) . Calyx campanulate, 

 truncate, 4 or 5 lines long, the border obscurely 4-5-toothed or repand. 

 Corolla papilionaceous, reddish or purple. Vexillum ovate-oblong, 

 acute, of a rather thickish texture, an inch and a half long, many- 

 striate, complicate in the bud, and slightly falcate-recurved, at length 

 expanding and spreading, at the base subunguiculate, and the mar- 

 gins appendiculate ; the face callose and bilamellate nearly as in S. 

 ruber. Alae oblong, falcate, short-unguiculate, obtuse, nearly half the 

 length of the vexillum, partly adherent to the base of the falcate, taper- 

 ing-beaked, moderately incurved carina, which is as long as the vexil- 

 lum, its two petals coherent by their anterior edge for nearly or quite 

 their whole length. Stamens and style, as in the foregoing species. 

 Anthers linear-oblong, uniform or nearly so. Stigma capitellate-trun- 

 cate, somewhat expanded or indusiform, the margin fringed with 

 minute hairs. Ovary puberulent, oblong, compressed, raised on a stipe 

 as long as itself, with from 4 to 6 ovules crowded about the middle of 

 the cell, probably only one or two of them fertile. Fruit unknown. 



