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excentric, go -ovulate ; style thin ; apex slightly dilated or truncated, 

 stigraatiferous. "Legume oblong or broadly-linear, often falcate, 

 compressed subligneous 2-valved ; placentary suture thick. Seeds 

 transverse, ovate or orbiculate, compressed; embryo exalbuminous 

 fleshy; cotyledons flat; radicle short straight included." — Un- 

 armed trees; leaves alternate paripinnate; leaflets 1- or paucijugate 

 unsymmetrical coriaceous ; stipules very short caducous ; flowers 

 crowded in simple terminal and axillary, or in terminal much-branched 

 racemes; bracts small or gland-like; bractlets or rather large, 

 obovate-concave, including bud as 2 valves {Tropical Africa). See 

 p. 108. 



42. Hymensea L. — Flowers thick ; receptacle thick, campanulate 

 or turbinate, lined by a disk. Sepals 4, much imbricated, coriaceous ; 

 highest sepal broader. Petals 5, sessile, slightly unequal (Courbaril, 

 Peltogyne), or more rarely 2 anterior very small scale-like or (Tra- 

 cJrylobiinn) ; much imbricated in sestivation. Stamens 10, free peri- 

 gynous. Germen stipitate, more or less excentric ; style long or 

 short ; apex stigmatiferous, more or less dilated, subpeltate (Pelto- 

 gyne) ; ovules 2- co. Legume indehiscent, sometimes obliquely orbi- 

 culate or scimitar-shaped, more or less winged above {Pcllor/i/ne), 

 sometimes ovoid or oblong, more or less warty, coriaceous-sub- 

 ligneous, sometimes short few-seeded (Trachylobium), sometimes 

 elongated (Courbaril) ; endocarp stuffed with thick floury hairs 

 between seeds. Seeds of variable form, exalbuminous. — Unarmed 

 trees ; leaves 2-foliolate ; leaflets unsymmetrical coriaceous ; stipules 

 small caducous ; flowers in dense compound much-branched, often 

 corymbiform, terminal or subterminal, racemes ; bracts and bractlets 

 short caducous, rarely shortly connate (Peltogyne) and persistent 

 (Tropical America, eastern tropical Africa and adjoining islands). See 

 p. 108. 



43. Tachigali Aubl. — Flowers markedly curved-clavate in bud ; 

 receptacle obconical, lined by a disk ; mouth oblique. Sepals 5, 

 slightly unequal, much imbricated. Petals 5, slightly unequal, im- 

 bricated. Stamens 10, fertile. Germen stipitate, inserted posteriorly 

 on receptacle below androceum, co-ovulate. Legume oblong or elon- 

 gated, piano-compressed, indehiscent (?). Seeds compressed ; albu- 

 men thin ; embryo compressed. — Unarmed trees ; leaves paripinnate ; 



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