Drepanocarpus
(from drepanon, a sickle, and karpos, a fruit; in reference to the form of the pods, which are falcate). Sickle-pod. ORD. Leguminosoe. A genus comprising eight species of ornamental stove evergreen shrubs, all of which are natives of tropical America, and one of West tropical Africa also. They thrive best in a peat and loam compost. Cuttings of nearly ripe shoots, intact, root in sand, if placed under a glass, in bottom heat. D. lunatus (half-moon-podded). fl. white; panicles terminal, ferruginous. l. impari-pinnate, with usually from five to nine nearly opposite oval-oblong leaflets; spines stipular, hooked. h. 6ft. to 10ft. Tropical America and Western Africa, 1792.