LEG milNOSJE-TAFILIONACE. E. 2 13 



cupuliform unequally crenate disk. Calyx gamosepalous, pilose 

 within ; teeth or lobes 4, 2 superior connate into one, entire or 

 emarginate ; aestivation imbricated. Corolla papilionaceous ; keel 

 nearly straight, obtuse, shorter than wings. Stamens LO, 2-adel- 

 phous (9-1) ; anthers uniform ; connective glandular coloured. 

 Grermen sessile or shortly stipitate ; ovules 2, 1 descending, 1 often 

 ascending ; style subulate, beardless except at base, curved at apex ; 

 summit minutely capitate, stigmatiferous. Legume (of Bided), at 

 base winged for a considerable distance and empty at apex ; 1-2- 

 seeded, and late becoming 2-valved. Seeds flat, unequally obovate, 

 exarillate. — Climbing shrubs ; leaves pinnate 3-foliolate stipellate ; 

 stipules minute persistent ; flowers 1 in much-branched racemes, 

 pedicels articulated at base ; bracts and bractlets small, acute for 

 same distance at apex {Tropical Asia and Africa (?) 2 ). 



28. Glycine L. 3 — Eeceptacle slightly concave ; calyx gamose- 

 palous ; 2 superior lobes usually connate to a considerable height. 

 Petals often very unequal ; standard suborbicular or obovate, 

 narrowed or subauriculate at base ; margins inflexed ; wings oblique 

 narrow, more or less adhering to keel ; keel shorter than wings or 

 very short, obtuse. Stamens 10, 1- or more rarely 2-adelphous 

 (9-1); filament free at apex, usually filiform; anthers often short. 

 Germen subsessile, 2- cc-ovulate ; style linear curved, usually short 

 beardless ; apex capitate. Legume linear or falcate, more rarely 

 broad falcate (Soja A ), compressed or terete, cellularly septate within, 

 2-valved. Seeds exarillate. — Herbs twining or prostrate, slender, more 

 rarely erect; leaves pinnate, 3- or more rarely 5-7-foliolate stipellate; 

 stipules lateral, usually small ; flowers 5 in axillary racemes, either 

 solitary or fascicled along the rachis, or else scattered (Lcpfocyanuis 6 ) ; 

 lower flowers (often apetalous) sometimes solitary at axils ; bracts 

 and bractlets minute, setaceous or narrow {Tropical and Subtropical 

 Africa, Asia, and Australia 7 ). 



lelia, Zoll., in Nat. Gen. Arch, (ex Hassk., in loc. cit., 207 (nee DC). — Bujacia E. Met., 



Flora [1847], 702). Comm. PI. Afr. Austr., 127. 



1 Small, crowded ; white, pink, or purple. 4 Mcench, Meth., 153. — Sayi, Mem. Phaseol., 



2 Species about 10. Wight, Icon., t. 210 ii. 16. — DC, Prodr., n. 390. — Endl., €hn., n. 

 (Butea).— Baker, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., ii. 6649. 



183. 5 " Purplish or pale." 



3 Gen., n. 868 (nee Ntttt.). — DC, Prodr., ii. 6 Bextii., in Trans. Linn. Soc, xviii. 20!). — 

 2-10. — Ende., Gen., n. 6650. — B. 11., Gen., 530, Endl., Gen.,xu 6645. — Leptolobiutn I'.imii., in 

 n.196. — Johnia Wight & Arm., Prodr., 449. — Ann. Wien. Mm., ii. 124 (nee VoG '. 



Endl., Gen., n. 6646. — Notonia Wight & Aiin., 7 Species about 12. Jacq., Icon. Bar., t. 1 10 



