Ormocarpum P.Beauv.

Shrubs or small trees usually with two kinds of hair, (a) rather weak, caducous, white, normal hairs, (b) stiffer, darker, swollen-based hairs, which often exude a yellow more or less aromatic viscid fluid when young and whose enlarged bases may persist as small conical tubercles when old. Leaves often fasciculate on short shoots, imparipinnate (or, outside Flora area, 1-foliolate), without stipels; stipules striate, persistent; leaflets usually ± alternate, entire or minutely notched at the margins, nearly always glabrous and minutely black-dotted above, paler beneath. Flowers in axillary racemes (or rarely panicles) or solitary, the pedicel usually longer than the bract and the calyx; bracts persistent, sometimes 3-partite; bracteoles also persistent, opposite, situated at or rather below the base of the receptacle. Receptacle-cup (hypanthium) shallow, oval, longer (in the dorsiventral plane) than it is broad or deep, the ovary-base and pedicel-insertion towards its lower end. Calyx usually strongly veined, the lobes usually longer than the tube, the lower lobe longest, the 2 upper lobes united for about half their length and connivent at the tip. Corolla 9–26 mm. long, glabrous or the 3 upper petals somewhat pubescent toward the tip and at the margin, often strongly veined; blade of standard curved back at an angle to the claw with 2 ridges, knobs or scales at the base; blades of wings transversely puckered between the veins in the upper part near the base; claws of the keel longer than those of the wings; blades of keel-petals lightly attached along their lower margin. Stamens free from the petals, usually (5) + (5), i.e. divided dorsally and ventrally into 2 groups of 5, less often (10), i.e. united to form a sheath slit above, occasionally 1 + (9), i.e. the vexillary stamen free, the remainder forming an open sheath or 1 + (4) + (5) where this sheath is split on the lower side as well; staminal arrangement often inconstant within a single species or even a single specimen; anthers all alike or less often the 5 on longer filaments rather longer than the rest. Intrastaminal disc cylindrical, forming a collar round the stipe of the ovary or, less often, flat. Ovary ± stipitate, 3–9-ovulate, often becoming arcuate, i.e. curved with the upper margin convex; style curved upwards from near its centre, thin, cylindrical, glabrous or sparsely hispid near the base; stigma terminal, minute. Pod breaking transversely into 1–6 1-seeded indehiscent segments. Seed flattened, asymmetrically elliptic, without a prominent aril; hilum near one end, ± 0.5 mm. long, elliptic.