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fleshy, 1-seeded. An herb, with trifoliate leaves and yellow the 5 alternate ones sterile. Legume oblong, thick, 2-valved, 1- 

 flowers. celled, many-seeded. A tree, with opposite bipinnate leaves, 



•' 9.37 Pera'ltea. Calyx bibracteolate, bilabiate, lower lip and panicles of white flowers. 



trifid, upper one bidentate. Stamens diadelphous. Legume 



247 GuiLANDiNA. Calyx urceolate, 5-cleft. Petals 5, ses- 



»! compressed, 4-8-seeded. Subshrubs, with impari-pinnate leaves sile, nearly equal. Stamens 10, villous at the base. Legume 



H? ^nd large purplish flowers. 



ovate, echinated, 2-valved, 1-3-seeded. Seeds bony, shining. 



238 Brongnja'rtia. All ns in Peraliea^ but the legume has Trees or shrubs, beset with hooked prickles, with abruptly bi- 

 a longer stipe, and the seminiferous suture is without a margin. pinnate leaves, and racemose spikes of yellow flowers. 



239 Andira. Calyx campanulate, 5-toothed. Vexillum 



248 Coulte'ria. Calyx turbinate, 5-cleft, lower segment 



^ roundish, emarginate, longer than the keel. Stamens diadel- largest, edged with glandular teeth. Petals 5, upper one 

 phous, 9 joined, and 1 free. Legume stipitate, orbicular, &c. largest. Stamens 10, bearded at the base, with a nectariferous 

 tI hard, l"Celled, 1 -seeded. Trees, with impari-pinnate leaves, and gland on the upper side of the ovary. Stigma ciliated with 



glands. Legume compressed, spongy, hardly dehiscent, trans- 



terminal panicles of purple flowers. 



240 Geoffroya. Calyx campanulate, somewhat bilabiate, versely many-celled. Seeds 4-6. Spinose shrubs or trees, with 



^ half 5-cleft. Wings and keel about equal in length, shorter abruptly pinnate leaves, and racemes of yellow flowers. 



than the vexillum. Stamens diadelphous, 9 joined, and 1 free. 



249 C^salpi'nia, Calyx 5-cleft, lower segment largest and 



Legume drupaceous, egg-shaped, 1 -celled, 1 -seeded. Trees, arched. Petals 5, unequal, unguiculate, upper one shortest, 

 with impari-pinnate leaves, and axillary racemes or panicles of Stamens 10, villous at the base, ascending. Legume unarmed, 



yellowish flowers. 



compressed, 2-valved, many-seeded. Prickly or unarmed trees 



241 BroSvkea. Calyx with 2 connate bracteas at the base, or shrubs, with abruptly bipinnate leaves, and yellow flowers. 



constituting a sheath (f. 55. a.). Calyx 5-cleft (f. 55. i.). Pe- 



250 Poincia'na. Calyx 5-cleft, unequal, lower segment 



jj tals 5 (f. 55, c), unguiculate (f. 55. e,).. Stamens 10-15, mo- arched. Petals 5, unguiculate, upper one diffbrmed. Stamens 

 nadelphous, with the sheath cleft in front. Legume 1-celled, 10, long, hairy at the base. Legume compressed, 2-valved, 

 many-seeded, acinaciform, compressed. Trees, with abruptly many-celled. Trees or shrubs, with abruptly bipinnate leaves. 



pinnate leaves, and rose-coloured flowers, rising in fascicles from and usually with variegated flowers, 

 the buds. 



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251 Mezoneu^rum. Calyx 5-cleft; lower segment arched, 

 I'pTERix. Calyx 3-5-cleft, 2 upper segments largest, the other suborbicular. Petals 5, unguiculate, upper one 

 wing-formed, 1-3 lower ones small. Corolla papilionaceous. smallest. Stamens 10, declinate, villous at the base. Legume 

 Stamens 8-10, monadelphous, with the sheath cleft in front, leafy, flat, ovate-oblong, indehiscent, 1-celled, many-seeded, 

 Legume somewhat compressed, thick, 2-valved, 1 -seeded. expanded into a wing on the upper suture. Prickly trees, with 

 Trees, with abruptly pinnate leaves and panicled flowers. 



Tribe X. 



abruptly bipinnate leaves. 



252 Reicha'rdia, Calyx campanulate, 5-toothcd. Petals 



6-10, unequal, sub-papilionaceous. Stamens 10, declinate, 



cohering by a beard below the middle. Legume samaroid, ex- 



Cassie'^. Lohes of calyx imbricate before expansion (f. 57. panded into a wing. A genus hardly known. 



a.). Petals perigynous (f, 56. b. f. 57. 6.), nearly equals rarely 253 Labi'chea. Calyx 5-cleft, regular, deciduous. Petals 



sub-papilionaceous, tvibricate in cestivation. Stamens distinct 5, roundish, obovate, nearly equal. Stamens 2, hypogynous, 



(f. 57.C. f.56. c). Legume usually dry and 2-valved {f. 58. g, very short. Anthers 2-celled, bursting by a sub-operculate 



A f, o6. e.). Cotyledons leafy, rarely fleshy. Leaves hi or tripinnate^ 



pore 



Ovary on a short stipe, ovate-oblong, 2-ovulate. Style 



sometimes abruptly or impari-pinnate, sometimes simple. LJabit subulate. Stigma simple. A shrub, with impari-pinnate leaves, 



variable. 



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Petals 5, nearly equal. Stamens 10, un- 



and terminal racemes of flowers. 



254 Hoffmanse'ggia. Calyx 5-cleft. Petals 5, unguicu- 



equal, sometimes 5 of which are sterile. Legume silique- late, glandular at the base, upper one broadest. Stamens 10, 



formed, 3-valved. Trees, with bi-tripinnate leaves 



covered with glandular hairs, one usually abortive. Legume 



244 Glebi'tschia. Flowers unisexual or hermaphrodite. linear, compressed, many-seeded. Herbs or subshrubs, with 



Calyx 3-4-5-cleft. Petals 3-4-5, the 2 lowest ones joined into a impari-bipinnate leaves, and racemes of yellow flowers, 

 keel. Stamens equal in number to the petals, and opposite the 255 Melanosti'cta. Calyx 5-cleft. Petals 5, nearly equal, 



sepals. Legume transversely many-celled, rarely 1-celled, 1- tapering to the base, length of calyx. Stamens 10, villous at 



seeded. Spinose trees, with abruptly pinnate or bipinnate the base. Legume compressed, ovate-oblong, hairy. Sub- 



leaves, and spikes of greenish flowers. 



shrubs, with impari-bipinnate leaves. 



245 Gymnocladus, Flowers dioecious. Calyx tubular, 5- 256 Poma'ria. Calyx 5-cleft (f. 56. a.). Petals 5 (f. 56. 



cleft. Petals 5, equal. Stamens 10, inclosed. Legume oblong, fc.), unguiculate, upper one concave 

 thick, pulpy inside. An unarmed tree, with bipinnate leaves, (f. 56. c), declinate, hairy at the bas 



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Stamens 10 



and racemes of white flowers. 



. 246 Anoma. Calyx 5-cleft. Petals 5, equal, Stamens 10, 



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56. c), declinate, hairy at the base. Legume oblong (f. 56. 

 d.)y compressed, 2-seeded (f. 56. e.). Shrubs, with abruptly bj^ 

 pinnate leaves. 



