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subulate or compressed; stigma small, terminal. Upper suture of the 
pod nearly straight, the lower sinuated, articulations compressed, 
transversely reticulated, indehiscent.—Herbs remarkable for their large 
imbricated bracts. : 
The two other species inhabit the East Indies. 
1. G. lupulina, Planch. in Herb. Kew. Stems a foot or more long, 
herbaceous, elabrous, copiously branched at the base. Stipules broadly 
ovate, {- in. broad, not at all adnate, the point bluntish. Petioles 
slender, glabrous, about half an inch long; rachis about the same 
length, the leaflets in 2-3 pairs, and a terminal one, the former short- 
stalked and with deciduous setaceous stipelle, both sides glabrous, the 
lower slightly glaucous. Flowers in dense oblong spikes 1—2 in. long, 
on slender, erecto-patent peduncles about equalling them.  Bracts 
wrapped round the axils, }—3 in. long, 2 in. deep, obliquely reniform, 
much imbricated, not ciliated, membranous, with a network of fine 
prominent veins, and a single flower in the axil of each. Pedicel 
glabrous, nearly equalling the glabrous calyx, which is 2 lines deep, 
cleft nearly to the base. Corolla bright yellow, twice as long as the 
calyx. Pod equalling the’corolla, with two roundish articulations, one 
Sometimes abortive—Benth. Linn. Trans. xxv. 298. Sammeringia 
psittacorhyncha, Webb Spic. Gorgon. 123. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Senegambia, Heudelot! os 
General habit of the Indian G. cristata, in which the bracts are densely ciliated. 
Also a plant of the Cape Verde islands. 
40. STYLOSANTHES, Swartz. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 517. 
Calyx with an elongated filiform tube and scarious lobes, the four 
upper ones connate, the lowest distinct. Flowers polygamous, the fer- 
tile ones often apetalous (Welwitsch), Petals and stamens inserted at 
the throat of the tube; standard orbicular; wings oblong, free; keel 
Incurved, subrostrate. Stamens all connate in a closed tube; the an- 
thers alternately longer and fixed near the base, and shorter and ver- 
Satile. Ovary nearly sessile at the base of the tube, 2-3-ovulate. Style 
long, filiform, after “flowering broken at the middle or near the base, 
the portion that remains becoming decurved; stigma minute, ter- 
minal. Pod subsessile, compressed, crowned with the persistent curved 
base of the style, the articulations usually two, sometimes solitary, 
Tugose-reticulated.—Perennial, often viscous herbs or undershrubs. 
eaves pinnately trifoliolate. 
A small Tropical genus, principally Brazilian. 
s Eustylosanthes, (Vogel).—Fertile flower without any accessory 
barren one . Pope eg kw sw 8 ce Sees 
3§ Stylosma, (Vogel).—Fertile flower with an accessory rudimen- 
tary plumose stalk. 
Stems and pod glabrous or nearlyso . . . 1. + - . 2. &. erecta. 
1. S, viscosa. 
