264 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



68. Poitaea Vent. 1 — Calyx gamosepalous subtruncate ; teeth very 

 short, standard obovate erect ; wings oblong, longer than standard ; 

 keel longer than wings, acute subfalcate ; petals free at apex. 

 Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1); anthers uniform. Germen stipi- 

 tate oc -ovulate ; style curved glabrous subulate ; apex minute stig- 

 matiferous. Legume linear piano-compressed 2-valved. Seeds 

 orbiculate. — Shrubs ; leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets go, membranous 

 entire exstipellate ; stipules setaceous ; flowers 2 in axillary racemes ; 

 bracts small; bractlets (West Indies 3 ). 



69? Vilmorinia DC. 4 — "Calyx ebracteolate cylindrical, obtusely 

 4-toothed, sub-2-labiate. Corolla papilionaceous ; petals oblong ; 

 wings shorter than keel. Stamens 2-adelphous. Style glabrous 

 subulate acute. Legume pedicellate lanceolate, tapering at base, 

 compressed, filiform at apex. Seeds 12-16. — A shrub; leaves im- 

 paripinnate ; stipules rather broad at base, long subulate ; flowers 5 in 

 axillary racemes" (Hispamolaf). 



70 ? Lennsea Kl. ; — Flowers small, almost those of Bobinia ; calyx 

 teeth short ; 2 superior connate. Standard suborbicular, naked on 

 inner surface, shortly unguiculate ; wings free ; keel curved, obtuse. 

 Stamens 1 ; vexillary stamen free onlyclose to base, afterwards con- 

 nate with remainder into a closed tube ; anthers uniform. Germen 

 shortly stipitate ; ovules oo ; style slender, at apex much curved subin- 

 volute, at back slightly bearded longitudinally ; summit capitate 

 stigmatiferous. Legume linear compressed torulose, septate within 

 between seeds, 2-valved. Seeds lenticular compressed. 8 — Trees or 

 shrubs, glabrous ; leaves subimparipinnate ; leaflets stipellate alter- 

 nate, quite entire; stipules small; flowers 9 racemose; racemes axillary 

 or fascicled at old nodes, sometimes nutant (Cent red America, 10 

 Mexico 11 ). 



1 Choix de PL, t. 36.— Ttjep., in Diet. Sc. Cliloria muUiflora Sw., Fl. Ind. Oct-., ii. 1253 

 Ndt., Atl., t. 251.— DC, Prodr., ii. 263.— Kndl., (a rery doubtful genus). 



Gen., n. 6547.— B. H., Gen., 500, n. 109. ' 7 Ap. Link., Kl. & Otto, Icon. Plant., ii. 65, 



2 Pink or purple. t . 26.— B. H., Gen., 500, n. 110. 



3 "Species 2." s Kunze, in Linnaa, xvi. 320. 



* Prodr., ii. 239.— Exdl., Gen., n. 6655.— » Pink or greenish (recalling the leaves and 



h. H., Gen., 49J, n. 108. flowers of some species of Indigofera). 



5 " Purple." in W alp., Sep., i. 680. 



6 Species 1. V. muUiflora DC, loo. cit.— " Seem., Herald, U'7. 



