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articulated at base ; stipules minute persistent ; flower shortly 

 pedicellate, axillary in pairs ; bracts minute {Southern Africa}). 



57. Teplirosia Pers. 2 — Eeceptacle lined by a more or less promi- 

 nent glandular disk. Calyx gamosepalous ; teeth or lobes nearly 

 equal, or more rarely inferior tooth or lobe longer ; 2 superior connate 

 for a considerable distance. Petals unguiculate ; standard sub- 

 orbicular, usually silky or villous outside ; wings oblique, more or 

 less adhering to keel; keel curved. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous; 9 

 lower connate into a tube cleft above ; vexillary stamen more or 

 less connate below with remainder, finally almost always free ; 

 each filament often a little gibbous outside above base ; anthers 

 uniform. Germen sessile 2-co -ovulate ; style often flattened or 

 dilated, subtubular, rigid " or rather horny," inflexed or curved ; 

 stigma terminal, truncate or oftener penicillate. Legume linear, 

 more rarely ovate, compressed, continuous or imperfectly septate 

 between seeds within, 2-valved. Seeds l~co , a little compressed, 

 funicle dilated at base or towards apex into a small aril of variable 

 form. — Shrubs or oftener undershrubs or herbs ; leaves imparipinnate, 

 more rarely 1-3-foliolate ; leaflets usually marked by parallel veins 

 oblique to midrib, often silky below ; stipules setaceous or similar to 

 leaves ; inflorescence racemose ; racemes terminal or leaf-opposed 

 or in higher axils, often bearing leaves at base ; flowers 3 solitary 

 or often in fascicles of 2-6 in axils of each bract ; bractlets 0^ {All 

 Tropical and Sub-trojncal region^). 



1 Species 1. S. bifora E. Met, loc. oil. — the characters of inflorescence and gynacceum, 

 Haev., Thes. Cap., t. 7S. — Haev. & Sond., Fl. into 3 sections : — " 1. B/issonia. Racemes axil- 

 Cap., ii. 22-4. — [Baker (in Oliv., Fl. Trop. Af>\, lary and terminal ; style usually longitudinally 

 ii. 103) gives another species, 5. angolensis, hearded ahove, suhterete or narrowly flattened. — 

 which has "digitately tiii'oliohite leaves."] 2. Reineria. Racemes terminal or opposite to 



2 Syn., ii. 328. — DC, Prodr., ii. 249 (part.). — leaves; style more or less dilated, hare or bearded ; 

 Endl., Gen., n. G539 (part.) — B. H., Gen., 496, stigma usually penicillate. — 3. Requienia. Flowers 

 n. 100. — Briisonia Neck., Elem., n. 1348. — axillary fascicled ; leaves 1-foliolate; ovules 1, 2. 

 Reineria Mcench, Suppl., 44. — Xyphocarpus b Species about 80. H. II. k\, Nov. Gen. ct 

 Peesl, Symb., i. 13, t. l.—Kiesera Reintv., Spec, vi. t. 577.— Vam.., PL Asiat. Bar., t. 60. — 

 Syll. PI. Ratish., ii. 11. —Requienia DC, in Wight, Icon., t. 370-372, 388. — Benth., in 

 Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 1, iv. 91 ; Mem. Legum., 224, Mart. Fl. Bras., Papil., 45 ; Fl. Austral., ii. 

 t. 37, 38; Prodr., ii. 168.— Endl., Gen., n. 203.— Jaub. & Spach, III. PI. Orient., t. 475- 

 BtfL—Apodynomme. E. Met., Comm. PI. Afr. 478 (Pogonostigma).— Guill. & Pebe.,^/. Sen. 

 Austr., 111. — Pogonostigma Boiss., Diagn. PI. Tent., i. 168 (Requienia), t. 49.— Miq., Stirp. 



Or., ii. 39.— Catacline Edgew., in Joum. Asiat. Surin., t. 6; Fl. Ind. Bat., i. p. i. 290. Haev. 



Soc. Beng., xvi. 1214. — Balboa Liebm., in & Sond., Fl. Cap., ii. 203, 230 (Requienia).— 



Videnslc. Medd. (i856) 106.— Macronyx Dalz., Bakee, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr.,\\. 104.— Seem., 



in Hook. Joum. ii. 35. Herald, t. 19.— Walp., Rep., i. 673; ii. 857; 



3 White, red, or purple. v. 515 ; Ann., ii. S'.M; iv. 489. 



4 Bentham divides this genus, according to 



