Lon choc ar pus 



LEGUMINi 



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wings oblong, -with hairs along a median line and at the apex, upper 

 margin slightly curved, lower somewhat straight, long-clawed, 1'5 cm. 1. ; 

 keel-petals oblong, upper margin slightly curved, lower straight, truncate at 

 the base, silvery-silky on the outside, long-clawed, as long as the wings. 

 Pod similar to that of L. sericciix, but tomentum shorter, sometimes 

 thickened along both margin-, 1 i^:->)--c<-ded, elliptical, oblong, or linear, 

 3-8 cm. 1., 2 cm. br., style more or loss persisting as a curved beak. 



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26. PISCIDIA L. 



Tree. Leaves alternate, iinparipinnate ; leaflets opposite, 

 pairs. Flowers appearing before the leaves in panicles. 

 Calyx with 5 short broad teeth. Standard roundish, emarginate ; 



B 



Fig. 26. PiscuMa piscipula - 



A, Leaf x '.. 



B, Flower > 



1 . standard, nnt. - 

 l>. Win;:, nat. size. 

 E, Keel, nat. 



F. Flower cut lengthwise XI 1 . 



;. Staininal <heath enclosiu;.; pistil, and 



part i -.f calyx, X I 1 . 

 II. Poii, with portion cut m\a\ ; 



see^K 

 (F, <; after Sargeut.) 



and keel long-clawed. Uppermost stamen t'n-e at tin- baj 

 united in the middle with the rest in a dosed lube; anther- 

 versatile, attached just above the base. Stigma small, terminal. 

 Pod linear-compressed, not opening, on a stalk longer than the 

 calyx, \\iih 4 broad longitudinal wings, slightly contracted 

 between the seeds. Seeds .'5-7. 



Species 1, or perhaps 2, natives of the \Ye-t Indies, Mt-xi 

 and northern S. America. 



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