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articulated; stipules small; flowers 1 in short lax racemes inserted 

 in axils or fascicled at old nodes ; pedicels articulated at base 

 and below flower, and furnished at same places with 2 caducous 

 bracts [Central America, Mexico-). 



66. Sabinea DC. 3 — Calyx broadly campanulate truncate, nearly 

 entire or very shortly toothed. Standard broadly suborbiculate, 

 patent or reflexed ; wings free falcate-oblong ; keel equal to or a 

 little longer than wings, curved obtuse. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous 

 (9-1), either all equal, or 5 lower longer and connate to a greater 

 height ; anthers uniform. Grermen stipitate co-ovulate ; st}de 

 slender hollow, much curved, glabrous, long tapering at apex ; 

 summit minute, not thickened, stigmatiferous. Legume linear 

 piano-compressed, continuous within, 2-valved ; valves ultimately 

 spirally twisted. Seeds ovate-compressed or reniform, exarillate. — 

 Trees or shrubs ; leaves paripinnate ; midrib terminating at apex 

 in a short point ; leaflets deciduous, entire or apiculate, exstipellate ; 

 stipules small, usually setaceous caducous ; flowers 4 solitary or 

 fascicled at old nodes; bracts small; bractlets (West Indie-?). 



67. Corynella DC. fi — Calyx very short or elongated subulate; 

 teeth either nearly equal or 2 superior connate to a considerable 

 height. Standard suborbicular unguiculate reflexed ; wings oblique 

 free; keel curved, longer than wings and standard. Stamens 10, 

 2-adelphous (9-1) ; anthers uniform ; connective glandular, usually 

 coloured. Germen stipitate oo-ovulate; apex of style usually 

 thickened hooked curved ; summit minutely capitate, stigmatiferous. 

 Legume lanceolate or elongated, piano-compressed co-seeded, 2-valved. 

 — Shrubs ; leaves pari- or imparipinnate ; stipels minute ; stipules 

 rigid, sometimes spinescent ; flowers 7 solitary or fascicled at old 

 nodes; bracts small, bractlets 8 (West Indies''). 



1 Yellow. 6 In Ann. Scienc. Nat., ser. 1, iv. 93; Prodr., 



- Benth. & (Erst., Legum. Cenlroamer., ii. 2G7. — Endl., Gen., a. 6556. — B. II., Gen., 



10.— Walp., Ann., ii. 493. 5"0, n. 112. — Corynitis Sri;i:.\i;., Syst., Cur. 



3 In Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 1, iv. !)2 ; Prodr., ii. Post., 263. — ? Toxotropis TtTBCZ., in Bull. Mosc, 

 2G3.— Endl., Gen., n. 6548.— B. II., Gen.', 501, ii. p. ii. 506.— Walp., Ann., i. 232. 



n. 114. ' Purplish. 



4 Purplish. 8 A genus that needs to he attentively studied 



5 Srjecies 2 or 3. Vahl., Symb., iii. 89, t. 70. — and compared with Sabinia, ami perhaps with 

 Poib., Diet., vi. 227. — Peus., Syn., ii. 212 some species of Pictetus. 



(Rubinia).— Gkjkek., Fl. B, it. W. Imt., 183. 9 " Species 2." 





