LEGUMINOSsE- GJE8ALPINIEM. 1 2 5 



The sessile or subsessile ovary ends in a subulate style, undilated at 

 its stigmatiferous apex, and contains one or more descending 

 anatropous ovules attached by funicles, and with their micropyles 

 upwards and outwards. The fruit is a flattened oblong or oval thin 

 coriaceous indehiscent pod, whose sutures are indicated by two pro- 

 minent ribs, with their concavities facing, and their convexities pro- 

 duced into a continuous wing forming an uninterrupted frame all round 

 the pericarp. Inside are one or more flattened reniform seeds, whose 

 fleshy embryo has a short straight radicle, and is surrounded by a 

 thin layer of albumen. Of the two known species of the genus one 

 is from Brazil, the other from Guiana ;' both are unarmed trees, 

 whose imparipinnate leaves have very caducous stipules. The flowers 

 are collected in numbers at the ends of the branches in large branch- 

 ing compound racemes ; each flower is axillary to a very caducous 

 elongated bract. 



The flower of StorcHella," though usually tetramerous, or more 

 rarely di- or tri-merous, comes very near Martia ; but its calyx 

 and corolla, imbricated in the bud, are inserted on the rim 

 of a cup -shaped receptacle, in the bottom of which is inserted 

 the gynseceum. The stamens are usually ten in number 3 in the first 

 known species, S. vitiensis Seem. In a second species from New 

 Caledonia, 8. Panc/teri, 4 there are usually only four alternipetalous 

 stamens, as in Martia ; it has accordingly been placed in a distinct 

 section, under the name of Dor/a. In both species the stamens 

 consist of a free filament and an introrse two-celled anther, each cell 

 of which opens by a short cleft in the upper part of the longitudinal 

 groove on its face. The shortly stipulate ovary contains an indefinite 

 number of anatropous ovules, whose micropyles look upwards and 

 outwards. It is surmounted by a style with an obtuse stigmatiferous 

 apex. The fruit is an elongated compressed coriaceous valved pod, 

 expanded along its placentary edge into a wing. It contains a 

 variable number of seeds, with pretty long funicles, containing 

 within the seed -coats, a greenish embryo surrounded by fleshy 

 albumen. The genus Storckiella consists of Oceanian trees, whose 



1 Walp., Rep., i. 841. — Field. & Gaedn., 3 There are sometimes eleven, twelve, or even 



Sert. Plant., t. 11. more. 



* SEEM., in Bonplandia, ix. 255; x. 3f>3, " H. Bn., loc. cit.— Cassia Panchcri Viiii. 



t. <!; /•'/. Vitiens., 68, t. 13. — B. H., Gen., 571, (ex B.H., loc.cit.).— Dogamacrogemma PaNCH., 



10(J3, n. 325.— II. B>\, in Adansonia, ix. 201. herb. 



