LEGTJMIN0SJE-PAP1LI0NACE2E. 251 



afterwards connate with remainder; anthers uniform. Grermen 

 sessile or very shortly stipitate, oc -ovulate ; style curved or involute 

 beardless ; apex minutely capitate, stigmatiferous. Legume oblong 

 or broadly linear, neck slightly arched or nearly straight, compressed 

 or rather turgid ; superior suture produced at both ends into a win«- 

 or longitudinal rib ; usually membranous stuffed within between 

 seeds, finally (usually by elasticity) 2-valved. iSeeds (often laro-e) 

 nearly round, ovate, or long-ellipsoidal, slightly compressed ; hilum 

 linear elongated ; radicle inflexed, usually slightly compressed. — 

 Herbs, twining or prostrate ; leaves pinnate 3-foliolate stipellate ; 

 stipules small or minute, wart-like or gland-like ; flowers 1 in axillary 

 racemes, subsolitary or oftener fascicled in axil of each bract ; racliis 

 of fascicle node-like; bracts and bractlets caducous small {All warm 

 regions 1 ) . 



44. Cajanus DC. 3 — Eeceptacle concave, lined by a disk produced 

 into a short unequally crenulate sheath round base of gynaeceum. 

 Standard suborbicular reflexed, furnished with inflexed auriculate 

 appendages at base, wings oblique ; keel curved at apex, obtuse. 

 Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1) ; vexillary stamen wholly free; 

 anthers uniform. Geraien subsessile cc -ovulate ; style thin, thickened 

 above middle, glabrous ; apex obliquely capitate, stigmatiferous. 

 Legume linear compressed, obliquely acute at apex, depressed outside 

 in oblique linear dents between seeds, spuriously celled within ; cells 

 co, 1 -seeded. Seeds subspherical, slightly compressed; hilum 

 lateral oblong, thickened into a small longitudinally furrowed aril. — 

 An erect undershrub ; leaves pinnate 3-foliolate exstipellate ; leaflets 

 usually tomentose and sprinkled with minute resinous dots ; stipules 

 long subulate caducous ; flow T ers 4 in axillary pedunculate racemes, 

 scattered along the racliis ; rachis not node-like ; bracts caducous ; 

 bractlets [All hot regions"). 



out appendages. Keel produced into an inflexed Bentii., in Marl. Fl. Bras.. Papit., 175, t. 48. — 



or spiral beak. — 2. Malocchia. Superior lip of Bot. Mug., t. 1199. — Baker, in Olio. Fl. TYop. 



calyx 2-lobed. Standard with auriculate ap- Afr., ii. 189. — Walp., Ji'p., i. 765. 



pendages. Keel curved, obtuse, without beak" 3 DC, Cat. llort. Monspel., 85; I'rou'r., u. 



(Benth.). 406.— Exdl., Gen., n. 6686.— B. II., <;. .. 541, 



1 Large, handsome ; whitish, pink, or purple- n. 228. — Cajan ADANS., Fam.des PZ., ii. 326. — 

 violet. Dup.-Th., in Did. Sc. Nat., vi. 166. 



2 Jacq., Icon. Bar., t. 559, 550; llort. ' fellow or purple-striped. 



Schcenbr., t. 221. — Wight, loon,, t. 753. — 5 Species 1. widely cultivated (Asiatic ?), C. 



Gaudich., Voi). Freycin., But., t. 113. — in icm Speeng., Syst., ii. 2-18. — Bakee, in 



