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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



axil of each bract ; rachis of fascicle node-like ; bracts and bractlets 

 small caducous (Brazil 1 ). 



42. Pueraria DC. 2 — Eeceptacle somewhat concave lined by a 

 disk, slightly projecting gyna?ceum. Calyx gamosepalous to a con- 

 siderable height ; lobes or teeth 5, usually very unequal, imbricated; 

 2 superior connate into one 2-toothed or subentire. Petals very 

 dissimilar ; standard orbicular or obovate, 2-auriculate ; wings 

 narrowed for some distance from base, obliquely subfalcate ; keel of 

 variable form, about equal to wings. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous 

 (9-1) ; vexillary stamen free or connate with remainder to a variable 

 height ; anthers uniform. Germen subsessile co-ovulate ; style 

 inflexed or curved, glabrous ; apex capitate stigmatiferous. Legume 

 elongated, more or less membranous or thick, compressed or subterete, 

 continuous or stuffed within, 2-valved. Seeds variable. — Shrubs or 

 undershrubs, high twining ; leaves pinnate 3-foliolate stipellate ; 

 stipules herbaceous ; 3 flowers' in few-flowered cymes, one in axil of 

 each bract, arranged along axillary or terminal branched racemes ; 

 bracts small caducous; pedicels articulated; bractlets small elevated 

 close to flower, caducous or persistent, closely applied to calyx 

 (Tropical Asia, Japan'). 



43. Canavali Adams." — Eeceptacle more or less concave, lined by 

 a disk produced round germen into a usually crenate ring. Calyx 

 gamosepalous ; lobes 5, very unequal, connate into 2 lips ; superior 

 lip large or very large, 2-lobed or truncated ; lower lip usually very 

 small, 3-lobed or subentire ; aestivation imbricated. Corolla almost 

 that of P/taseolus ; standard large, suborbicular or broadly obovate, 

 reflexed ; wings free, falcate or a little twisted ; keel broader than 

 wings, obtuse or obtusely beaked, curved or inflexed or spirally 

 twisted. 7 Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1) at base; vexillary stamen 



1 Benth., in Mart. Fl. Bras., Papil., 167, t. 

 45. 



2 In Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 1, iv. 97 ; Prodr., ii. 

 240 ; Mem. Legum., 252, t. 43. — Endl., Gen. 

 n. 6632.— B. H., Gen., 537, n. 218.— Neustan- 

 thus Benth., in Plant. Jungh., i. 231. 



3 Sometimes produced below insertion. 



4 Blue, violet, or purplish. 



5 Species about 10. Wight, Icon., t. 412 

 (part.).— MiQ., Fl. Ind. Bat., i. p. 1, t. 4. — 

 Benth., in Journ. Linn. Soc., ix. 121, 



6 Fam. des PL, ii. 325. — Canavalia DC, 

 . Legum., 375; Prodr., ii. 404. — ENDIi., 

 Gen., n. 6663.— B. II., Gen., 537, n. 219.— 

 Clementea Civ,, in Ami. Scu ,ir. Nat., vii. 63, t. 

 47. — Speeng., Syst., 58 i. — Maloecliia S.wr, 

 Mem. Pliaseol., iii. 1. — Wenderothia Schltl., in 

 Li/uuea, xii. 330. 



' This genus is divided into two sections, ac- 

 cording to the character of the perianth, as 

 follows: "1. Coehlitropis. Superior lip of calyx 

 truncate, and often acuminate. Standard with- 



