200 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Spatholobus. Excepting the last, which though rendered by its 

 fruit and vegetative organs inseparable from Bidea, presents the 

 general organization of the Galactiece, all these genera have the 

 inflorescence of the Galactiece, or of the Euphaseolece or Viynecs, with 

 flowers whose standard is shorter than the wings or keel ; or else 

 very large, with the wings very short, or in any case shorter than 

 the keel. The style is beardless and the floral bracts are small or 

 caducous. 



The small group Diocleae has the same inflorescence and bracts. 

 The calyx is usually four-lobed, with the posterior lobe broadest, or 

 else it is equally bilabiate. The vexillary stamen, free at the base, 

 joins the rest above ; the style is beardless. The five genera Dioclca, 

 Camptosema, Cleobulia, Pueraria, and Canavalia constitute this sub- 

 series. 



In the group Glyeinea the secondary axis of the inflorescence loses 

 Kennedya prostrata. the knot-like appearance of the preceding sub- 

 series. The vexillary stamen may be either free 

 or united with the rest. The standard is 

 altogether without appendages, or else its edges 

 are only slightly inflexed at the base. The style 

 is glabrous except in Clitoria. This group con- 

 tains the eleven genera : Glycine, Shuteria, 

 Fig. 156 Fig 157 Teramnm, Kennedya (figs. L56, 157), Dumasia, 

 Fruit. Longitudinal Amphiearpa, Coloyania, Periandra, Centrosema, 



section of fruit, ciitoria, and Platycyamw. 

 In Cajanea, too, the nodes of the inflorescence are wanting. The 

 flowers have no lateral bractlets ; the vexillary stamen is free ; and 

 the style is beardless with a terminal stigma. The leaves are 

 covered, at least underneath, with resinous dots, and the stipules of 

 the leaflets are small or absent. In this last subseries we have 

 the eight genera : Cajanus, Fayelia, Atykma, Dunbaria, Cylida, 

 Rhynchosia, Eriosema, and Memingia. In the four last the number of 

 ovules and seeds is always very limited. 1 



1 The characters separating these six suh- artificial and in no way absolutely distinguished 

 series are very far from being absolute, as, indeed, from its neighbours, 

 might be expected in a series which is itself quite 



