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glabrous or puberulous, the peduncles 10-55 mm. long; bracts 1-2.5 mm. long, 1- 

 1.5 mm. wide, early caducous, triangular, acute, ciliolate but otherwise glabrous, 

 rarely puberulous externally; pedicels 2-5.5 mm. long, glabrous or puberulous; 

 bracteoles 5-8 mm. long, 3-5 mm. wide, elliptic to oblong or ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute, usually glabrous, infrequently ciliolate or apically puberulous, very rarely 

 puberulous internally. Hypanthium 1-2 mm. long, glabrous, sessile. Sepals five, 

 free or the adaxiai pair more or less united, 2.5-6 mm. long, 0.5-2 mm. wide, ob- 

 long or linear to lanceolate, usually acuminate or caudate-acuminate, sometimes 

 acute, glabrous or sparsely ciliolate apically. Petal blade 3-7 mm. long, 3.5-8.5 

 mm. wide, transversely oval, the claw 3.5-6.5 mm. long, auricuiate, glabrous or 

 sparingly pilosuiose at the base externally, more or less villosulose within, the 

 auricles sometimes ciliolate. Filaments 11-21 mm. long, somewhat villosulose 

 basally. Stigma simple or capitellate. Style 13.0-22.5 mm. long, glabrous or rarely 

 puberulous basally. Ovary 1.5-3.5 mm. long, 1-2.5 mm. wide, usually oval, less 

 frequently oblong, oval-oblong or suborbicular, l(-2)-ovulate, glabrous or infre- 

 quently puberulous to pilosuiose on the margins; gynophore 2-3.5 mm. long, glab- 

 rous or infrequently puberulous to pilosuiose, inserted on the hypanthium base. 

 Fruit 3-7.5 cm. long, 3-5.5 cm. wide, oval to suborbicular, the adaxiai margin 

 contracted into a narrow wing-like ridge, glabrous, the carpophores 2-7 mm. long, 

 glabrous or puberulous. Seeds 2 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 cnn wide, oval to suborbicular, 

 the testa thin-crustose, brown, venose. 



Key to the Varieties of Macrolobium multijugum 



1. Leaflets entire, usually broadly oblong to oblong-obovate 16a. var. multijugum. 



1. Leaflets sinuate, narrowly oblong 16b. var. sinuatum. 



16a. Macrolobium multijugum var. multijugum. Figure 6. 



Outea multijuga DC. Prodr. 2: 510. 1825. 



Vouapa multijuga (DC.) Taub. Bot. Centralbl. 47: 393. 1891. 

 Vuapa multijuga (DC.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 1: 213. 1891. 



FIG. 6. Geographic distribution of M. multijugum. 



