LEGUMINOS^E 



455 



slightly warted ; 1st internode 7'65 cm. long ; 2nd 1-4 cm. ; 

 3rd 1-05 cm ; 4th 1-1 cm. ; 5th 1'25 cm. ; 6th 8 mm. 



Leaves compound, pinnate with alternate leaflets (those of the first 

 four to five leaves mostly opposite), cauline, alternate (first two op- 

 posite), stipulate, petiolate, permeated with small, linear-oblong, 

 dot -like glands, ciliated on the margin, pubescent on the petiole 

 and on the rachis and midrib of leaflets on both surfaces, deep green 

 above, paler beneath, shining on both surfaces, evergreen, coriaceous, 

 thin ; leaflets slightly undulate, and subrevolute at the extreme 

 margin, shallowly wavy or subcrenulate in the adult leaves ; petioles 

 terete, thickened at the base 

 and articulated with the 

 stem ; stipules small, linear, 

 obtuse, pubescent, tending 

 to become obsolete as they 

 proceed from the first pair of 

 leaves upward. 



Nos. 1 and 2. Opposite ; 

 leaflets five, lanceolate, ob- 

 tuse, emarginate, as are those 

 of the third to seventh leaf. 



No. 3. With eight leaflets. 



No. 4. With nine leaflets. 



No. 5. Deformed. 



No. 6. With nine leaflets. 



No. 7. With eleven leaf- 

 lets. 



Ultimate leaves pinnate, 

 with nine to thirteen alter- 

 nate leaflets and a terminal 

 elliptic, obtuse, emarginate 

 one ; lateral leaflets oblong, 

 obtuse, emarginate, or a few 

 of the lower ones ovate. 



FIG. 296. 

 Hcematoxylon campechianum, x 2. 



Hsematoxylon campechianum, L. 



Fruit a legume, much flattened dorsally, one-seeded. 



Seed oblong-oval, 8-12 mm. long, exalbuminous, very much 

 laterally flattened; testa straw-coloured, smooth, thickened near 

 the hilum ; hilum rather conspicuous, ventral. 



Embryo straight, filling the whole interior of the seed, yellowish ; 

 cotyledons deeply bilobed, transversely oblong, consisting chiefly of 

 two large auricles, obtuse, veined while still in the seed, lying the 



