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scarcely or not dilated. Legume linear, straight or curved, com- 

 pressed or rather convex, subseptate or stuffed between seeds, 

 2-valved. 1 Seeds exarillate. — Shrubs or herbs, twining or prostrate; 

 leaves usually 3, more rarely 1-5-7-foliolate, stipellate ; stipules 

 small, often deciduous ; flowers 2 in axillary racemes, solitary or in 

 pairs or fascicled at axil of each bract ; rachis of fascicle node-like; 

 small ; bracts and bractlets below flowers small (All holler region f). 



16. Grona Lour. 4 — Flowers of Galaclia ; 2 superior calyx-lobes 

 connate at base or slightly beyond middle. Keel obtuse. Stamens 

 10, 2-adelphous (9-1). Legume stuffed between seeds, 2-valved. 

 Seeds orbiculate or ellipsoidal; funicle short, dilated at hilum 

 into a small aril. Other characters of Galaclia. — Prostrate or 

 twining herbs ; leaves 1-foliolate stipellate ; stipules caducous ; 

 flowers in axillary or subterminal racemes, in twos or threes or 

 fascicled in axil of each bract, pedicellate ; rachis of fascicle short, node- 

 like ; bracts small deciduous ; bractlets persistent rather late below 

 flower (Tropical Asia 5 ). 



17. Cymbosema Benth. 6 — Flowers almost those of Galaclia, 

 but larger ; 2 superior calyx-lobes connate into one, 2-toothed. 

 Vexillary stamen free. Germen subsessile co-ovulate ; style curved 

 beardless ; stigma terminal truncate. Legume oblong-falcate com- 

 pressed, terminated by curved style, 2-valved. Seeds oblong or 

 reniform, half surrounded by linear hilum, exarillate. — Twining 

 herbs ; leaves pinnate, 3-foliolate stipellate ; stipules small persistent ; 

 flowers 7 in a short raceme composed of a few 2-, 3-flowered fascicles; 

 peduncle long ; rachis of fascicle node-like ; bracts and bractlets 

 small [Tropical America*). 



1 Ripening underground in G. (Heterocarpcea) 

 canescens Benth. 



2 Red, violet, or white ; usually small or 

 middle sized ; handsome ; petals broader in 

 Collcea DC, in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 1, iv. 96; 

 Prodr., ii. 240. — Endl., Gen., n. GG57 (nee 

 Spreng., nee Lindl.), which ought by no means 

 to he separated generically from Galaclia. 



3 Species about 40. Miciix., in Fl. Bor.- 

 Amer., ii. 261. — K., Mimos., t. 55, 56.— H. B. K ., 

 Nov. Gen. et Spec, vi. 428. — JacQ., Icon. 

 Ear., t. 572, 573; Sort. Vindob., t. 76 — 

 Benth., in Ann. Wien. Mm., ii. 126; in Mart. 



Fl. Bras., Papil., 111, 144, t. 39, 40; Fl. 

 Austral., ii. 255. — Tour. & Gr., Fl. X. dm 

 i. 287.— Wight, Icon., t. 482 — Limh.., in Bof. 

 lire,., t. 269.— GRISEB., Fl. Brit. II'. Ind., 191 ; 

 PI. Wright. Cub., 376.— Baxeb, in Oliv. Fl. 

 Prop. Afr., ii. 188.— Wali\, Sep., i. 761 ; ii. 

 900 ; v. 531 ; Ann., ii. 421 ; iv. 55 1. 



4 Fl. CochincJi., ed. 1 (1790), 459.— Benth., 

 in PI. Junffk., 233.— B. H., Gen., 535, n. 211. 



5 Species 2 or 3. 



6 In Hook. Jouni., ii. 61 ; Gen., 534, n. 210 



7 Handsome ; pink or purplish. 



8 Species about 2. BEN'Tir., in Mart. t'l. 



