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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



in dehiscent. The seeds are usually transverse, or attached by a 

 lateral hilum, not pendulous inside the pericarp. This subseries 



Coumarouna odorata (Tonquin-Bean). 



Fig. 190. 

 Flower and fruit-bearing branch (?,). 



comprises Loncftocarpus, Xanthoceris II. Bv, 1 Piscidia, Coublandia, 

 Platymiscium, Ostrgocarpus, Hymenolobium, Pongamia, and Deguelia. 



This last genus at once approaches Milletia, Gliricidia, and the 

 Genistea. 



VIII. BROOM SERIES. 



The Brooms 2 (Fr., Genets — fig. 191) have hermaphrodite flowers, 

 with a concave receptacle lined with glandular tissue, on whose 



1 Given only in the Addenda in the French 

 edition, but will be found in its place at n. 185a, 

 in the following Genera.'] 



2 Genista T., Inst., 643 (part.), t. 412.— L., 

 Gen., n. 859 (part.). — J., Gen., 353. — Lamk., 

 Diet., ii. 616, t. 619.— DC, Mem. Legu n., 204, 

 t. 36 ; Prodr., ii. 154. — Spach, Suit, a Buffon, 

 i. 200. — Endl., Gen., n. 6500. — B. H., Gen., 

 482, 1002, n. 62. — Comiola Pbesl., Bot. Bern., 

 136, — Corothamiuis Pbesl., op. eit., 137. — Dry- 



mospartum Phfsl., op. eit., 138. — Voqlera Fl. 

 Wett. (ex Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ., 153). — Salz- 

 wedelia Fl. Wett. (ex Schttk., Enum., 146). — 

 Asterocy tisus ScuVB,.,loc.cit. — SpartiumSPACM, 

 in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 2, six. 285, t. 16 (nee L.). — 

 Ketama Boiss., Voy., 143. — Dendrospartum 

 Spach, in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 3, iii. 152. — Gone- 

 cytisus Spach, loc. eit., 153. — Syspone Gbiseb., 

 Spic. Fl. Bumel., i. 5. — Balia Webb, Otia 

 Ilisp., 20, t. 15, 16. 



