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36. Centrosema DC — Flowers of Periandra ; standard dorsally 

 spurred, or more rarely more or less gibbous {Vexillariif) near base. 

 Germen subsessile, oc-ovulate, style curved ; apex more or less dilated, 

 slightly bearded round terminal stigma. Legume subsessile ; both 

 sutures thickened; valves traversed on each side by a rather promi- 

 nent vein not far from margin, or winged close to anterior suture. — 

 Herbs or undershrubs, twining or prostrate ; leaves pinnate, or more 

 rarely subdigitate, 3- or more rarely, 1- or 5-7- foliolate, stipellate ; 

 stipules striated persistent; flowers 3 axillary ; peduncles 1- oo-flowered, 

 solitary or in pairs ; bracts stipuliform in pairs ; superior bracts 

 connate striated ; pedicels solitary or in pairs ; bractlets appressed 

 to flower, persistent, rather large {South, Central* and North America, 

 Java 5 ). 



37. Clitoria L. 6 — Beceptaele concave, lined by a disk. Calyx 

 gamosepalous tubular ; lobes 5, nearly equal, or 2 superior connate 

 for a considerable distance, or lowest narrower. Petals usually very 

 unequal ; standard large, erect, emarginate ; wings oblong subfal- 

 cate, spreading, more or less adhering to keel ; keel curved acute, often 

 much shorter than wings. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1); anthers 

 uniform. Germen stipitate, oo -ovulate; style curved, longitudinally 

 bearded interiorly ; apex stigmatiferous, more or less dilated. Legume 

 stipitate linear-compressed; sutures 1 or 2 slightly thickened ; faces 

 bare or traversed by a rather prominent longitudinal rib (Neurocar- 

 pi(i)t') ; continuous or membranous, stuffed within, 2-valved. Seeds 

 somewhat compressed, exarillate. — Herbs or shrubs, 3 erect or twining; 

 leaves pinnate, \-3-fo\ioliite {JVewocarpum) or 3-foliolate (C/itorianthe^), 

 more rarely 5-y-foliolate (Ternatea w ), almost always stipellate; stipules 



1 Prodr., ii. 234 (ClUorice sect. iii.). — Bentii., 

 in Ann. Wien. Mus., ii. 117 ; Gen., 527, n. 189. — 

 Ende., Gen., n. GG38. — Cruminium Desvx., in 

 Ann. Sc. Nat.,s6r. 1, ix. -123. — Steganotropis 

 Lehm., Ind. Hem. Sort. Hamburg. (1S2G). 



- Bentii., in Ann. Wien. Mus., ii. 117. — 

 Pilanthus Fori., ex Endl., Gen., n. 0637. — 

 L'l< * I use-ma Hoffm., ex Bentii., loc. cit., 122. 



3 Whitish, pink, violet, or bluish; handsome. 



4 Species about 25. H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et 

 Spec, t. 591. — Benth., in Mart. Fl. Bras., 

 Pupil., 125, t. 34.— Bat. Reg., t. 268, 1047. 



5 Species 1, introduced. 



6 Gen., u. 869.— G^ktn., Fruct., ii. 321, t. 

 149.— DC, Prodr., ii. 233 (part.).— Ekdl., Gen., 



n. 6635.— B. Ii., Gen., 528, n. 191.— CUtorius 

 Petit., in Bag Hist., iii. — Nauchea Desc., in 

 Mem. Soc. Linn. Par., iv. 3, t. 1. 



7 Desvx , in Journ. Bot., i. (iii.) 75. — K., 

 Mimos., t. 59, GO. — Presl, Symbol., t. 9. — 

 Endl., Gen., n. 6636. — Martia I.f.anm;., in 

 Denksr. Acad. Munch., vii. 233, t. .12 (nee 

 Benth.). — Ztrcc, in Abhand. Munch., i. 337 

 (part.). — Martmsia Schult., Mant., i. 69. — 

 DC, Prodr., ii. 236 (nee Be^th.). 



8 Species about 25. 



9 Bentii., in Mart. Fl. Bras. Papil.. t. 32, 

 33 ; Gen., 529. 



1,1 T., in Act. Acad. Par. (1706), I. I.— 

 II. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec, vi. II"' 



