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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



matiferous apex is more or less dilated into a terminal or oblique 

 head. The pod varies greatly in form, being in dehiscent or bivalve, 

 with its cavity continuous or divided by false dissepiments of variable 

 thickness into as many spurious cells as there are seeds. Within 

 the seed-coats is a fleshy embryo surrounded by a variable thickness 

 of albumen. 



The Bauhinias constructed on the above described plan have been 

 made into seven sections, which some authors have considered distinct 

 genera. In Adenolobus? Pauletza, 3 Perlebia* Pileostiyma* and Schnettd' 

 the gynseceum is inserted in the bottom of the receptacle, while in 

 Amarict and Lysiphyttum 1 it is inserted laterally on its wall. The 

 species whose androceum always consists in part of sterile stamens 

 are comprised in the sections Casparia* Lo.rovahjx, Phanera, and 

 Lasiobema. In the first section the only well developed stamen is 

 that superposed to the carpel, which is very large (fig. 8G), and the 

 rest are monadelphous, sterile, or more rarely with from two to four 

 fertile towards the posterior side of the flower. 9 In Loxocalyx™ there 



1 Harv. & Son n., /•'/. Cap., ii. 27.". In the 

 single species of this section the calyx has only 

 five teeth, and there arc ten stamens. 



- Cav., Icon., v. 5, t. 109, HO. This section 

 contains two-score species from America, and 

 eight or nine from tr< pica] Asia and Africa. 

 The calyx opens nearly to the base by five clefts, 

 or is one cleft in a single piece. The stamens 

 are all fertile, or more rarely the five oppositi- 

 petalous or the vexillary alone is sterile. The 

 leaves are entire or two-lobed on slender un- 

 armed or prickly stems. (J ACQ., Amer., t. 177: 

 Fragm., t. 15, fig. 1. — Bono., in Mem. A 

 Petrop., ser. 6, iv. t. 4-7.— IX'., Prodr., ii. 513. 

 — Hook., in Pot. Jlisc. ii. t. 1)1 ; in P>d. Mag., 

 t. 3741. — Mobic, PI. Nouv. Amer.,t. 51, 52.— 

 Reichb., Icon. Fxot., t. 180. — Koktii., Verh. 

 Nat. Gesch. Pot., t. 9.) 



3 Mart., Peis., i. 555. In this Brazilian 

 species the pod is said to possess i'alse dissep ments 

 between the seeds. 



4 Hochst., in Flora (1846), 528. Calyx of 

 Patdetia, often dehiscing by a single vertical 

 cleft. Stamens ten, fertile, free or slightly 

 monadelphous. Coriaceous or nearly woody, in- 

 dehiscent or bivalve at a very late stage. Vege- 

 tative characters of Pauletia. Six or seven 

 species from tropical Asia and Africa. (Hook., 

 Icon., t. 141. — Guill. & Perk., Fl.Seneg. Tent., 

 i. 226, t. 60.— Field. & Gaed>\, Sert. PI., 1. 10.) 



5 Radd., PI. Pros. Add., 33, fig. 4.— Caulo- 

 tretus Rich. & Spreng., Syst., Cur. Post., 406. 

 — E>dl., Gen., n. 6789. — Lacara Spreng., 

 Syst., ii. 332. — Tylotcea VoG., in Linncea, xiii. 



312. Calyx swollen, with five narrowly imbri" 

 cited lobes or teeth. Stamens ten, fertile. 

 Fruit flattened, coriaceous dehiscent, or mem- 

 branous indehisceut. Leaves two-lobed or 2- 

 foliolate. Species fifteen, all climbing, lianas, 

 with simple racemes, from tropical America. 

 i A i ui.., Chiian., t. 144, 1 15. — K., in Ann. Sc. 

 A ■'., ser. 1, i. 48; Mimos., t. 169.— H. B. K., 

 Nov. Gin. 1 1 Spec, vi. 319. — Bong., in Mem. 

 Acad. Petrop., seY. <>, vi. 109. — Jacq., Amer., 

 t. 173, fig. 3.— I.i.M-r.., in Bob Reg., t. 1133.— 

 Mobic, /'/. Nouv. Amer., t. 53.— Miq., Stirp. 

 Surin., fc. 2.) 



6 MUT., in DC, Prodr., ii. 519. In P. pe- 

 tiolata (Amaria petiolata Mitt.), Mxttis makes 

 the stamens monadelphous at the base, and the 

 gynseceum stipitate, excentric. 

 ' ' Behth., /•'/. Austral., ii. 295. 



8 K., in A nit. Sc. Xat., ser. 1, i. 85. — Endl., 

 'ii a , n. 6791. 



'•' This section contains seven or ei^ht spec 

 of unarmed erect trees or shrubs from Mexico 

 and the Antilles. Leaves entire or two-lobed. 

 Bud coriaceous, bivalve, often narrow. (1... 

 Hort. Cliff., t. 15.— Milt.., Icon., t. 61.— Cat., 

 Icon., t. 104-4.07. — Jacq., Port. Schoenbr., t. 

 100.— H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec, vi. 319.— 

 Hook., in Pot. Mag., t, 1708.) 



10 Benth., Gen., 576, 6. Section of one 

 climbing cirrhose species, with flowers in simple 

 or forked racemes, and an elongated coriaceous 

 bivalve pod. It conies from tropical Asia (P. 

 ■hyu Wall, Cat., n. 577 1 ; — P. scan- 

 dens Roxb., Ft. lad., ii. 326). 



