162 Mr. Bentuam on the Structure and Affinities of Arachis and Voandzeia. 
Stylus brevissimus, incurvus. Stigma terminale, obliquum, incrassatum. 
Legumen (sec. Torrey in litt.) 1—3-articulatum, articulis indehiscentibus, 
oblongis, turgidis, hispidis, monospermis. Radicula recta. by 
Herba suberecta, hirsuta, viseida. Folia irregulariter impari-pinnata. Stipulæ 
liberæ, membranaceæ, deciduæ. Racemi terminales, laxi, subcompositi. 
Pedunculi 1—3-flori, floribus bibracteolatis ad axillam bracteæ ovatæ 
sessilibus. 
In the ordinary perfect flowers I cannot find any trace of stigmatic papilla, 
nor the slightest disposition on the part of the ovarium to swell, except in a 
single instance, where I observed a glabrous ovarium somewhat swollen, and 
apparently advancing towards maturity, surrounded by the withered tube of 
the calyx, and terminating in a short filiform style withered or broken off at 
the extremity. 
Feb. 1839. 
