LEG UMINOS&-PAFILIONACEM 261 



and narrower. Standard large, with 2 appendages above claw ; wings 

 falcate with 1 appendage above claw ; keel curved obtuse. Stamens 

 10, 2-adelphous (9-1) ; more rarely vexillary stamen connate with 

 remainder ; anthers uniform. Germen stipitate ; disk produced 

 round stalk of germen into a conical sheath, unequally cleft at apex ; 

 germen co-ovulate ; style inflexed glabrous ; stigma terminal sub- 

 globose. Legume elongated torulose, continuous within, 2-valved ; 

 valves somewhat coriaceous, convex. Seeds reniform exarillate. — 

 Climbing shrubs ; leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets entire penniveined 

 with reticulate venules ; superior stipels linear, very caducous ; 

 stipules usually long narrow very caducous ; racemes terminal 

 nutant ; flowers' on rather long pedicels ; pedicels articulated at 

 base; bracts very caducous {China, Japan; North America'). 



63. Hobinia L. 4 — Eeceptacle depressed obconical, glandular within. 

 Calyx gamosepalous to a considerable height ; teeth short broad ; 

 2 superior subconnate vaivate. Petals shortly unguiculate ; standard 

 large reflexed, bare within ; wings free falcate-oblong ; petals of 

 curved obtuse keel connate below, vaivate. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous ; 

 9 inferior connate into a tube often slightly inflated at base and cleft 

 above ; vexillary stamen either free or connate at middle with 

 remainder ; anthers uniform, oppositipetalous often smaller. Ger- 

 men stipitate co-ovulate ; style inflexed subulate, shaggy at apex ; 

 stigma capitate terminal. Legume scarcely stipitate, linear piano- 

 compressed, continuous within, 2-valved ; valves membranous thin ; 

 superior suture narrowly winged. Seeds co, oblique or transverse, 

 exarillate amphitropous ; funicle rather long, near hilum slightly 

 thickened arilliform ; albumen thin membranous ; embryo fleshy ; 

 radicle much inflexed, accumbent. — Trees or shrubs, nearly glabrous, 

 viscous, or bristly ; leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets go, usually stipu- 

 late ; stipules minute, setaceous or spinescent ; flowers 5 in usually 

 axillary racemes ; bracts minute or membranous, very caducous 

 {North America*). 



1 Bluish, rarely whitish. Legum., 273; Prodr., ii. 201 (part.).— Enm .. 



2 Sieb. & Zrjcc, Fl. Jap., t. 43, 44 (45?).— Gen., n. 6546.— B. II., &en., 499, n. 106.— 

 Bot. Mag., t. 20, 83. — Bot. Reg., t. 050. Pst itdoacacia T., Inst., 649, t. 417. 



3 Sweet, Brit. Fl. Qard., ser. 2, t. 101. — 5 White, pink, or purplish. 



Bot. Mag., t. 2103. 6 Species 5 or 6. Vent., Jar,/. Ct /--, t. 4. — 



4 Gen., n. 879 (part., nee Aubt,., nee Luis..).— Dot. Mag., t. 311, 560.— \Vali\, Ann., iv. 491. 

 O/KRTN-., Frvet., ii. 307, t. 145.— DC, Mem. 



