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85. Cyamopsis DC. 1 — Flowers almost those of Indigofera ; stamens 

 10, 1-adelplious; filaments connate into a closed tube; anthers 

 uniform apiculate. Germen sessile co -ovulate ; style curved at apex ; 

 apex capitate stigmatiferous. Legume linear sub-4-gonous com- 

 pressed, rather thick, acuminate, septate within between seeds, 2- 

 valved. Seeds square compressed exarillate ; embryo fleshy ; radicle 

 inflexed clubbed. — Erect herbs, covered with hairs attached by middle ; 

 leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets 3-cc , opposite exstipellate ; stipules 

 setaceous small ; flowers 2 in axillary racemes, shortly pedicellate, 

 each solitary at axil of a bract ; bractlets {Tropical Africa, East 

 Indies*). 



86. Brongniartia H. B. K. 4 — Eeceptacle shortly obconical or 

 turbinate, lined by a disk produced round stalk of gynseceum into a 

 ring or short, usually unequally crenate, tube ; mouth of receptacle 

 slightly oblique. Calyx gamosepalous to a considerable height; lobes 

 disparate, nearly equal in length ; 2 superior usually more obtuse, 

 connate to a greater height ; aestivation slightly imbricated. Petals 

 nearly equal in length, very dissimilar ; standard ovate or broadly 

 orbicular, bare within, finally reflexed ; claw short, somewhat arti- 

 culated at base ; wings unevenly oblong, falcate free ; keel curved or 

 cymbiform, obtuse. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1); sheath a little 

 dilated at base ; anthers uniform or 5 alternate a little shorter, ver- 

 satile. Germen subsessile or stipitate ; ovules oo ; style curved subu- 

 late glabrous ; apex minute or capitellate, stigmatiferous. Legume 

 oblong or broadly linear, piano-compressed, continuous or slightly 

 stuffed within ; placentary suture furnished with a very narrow or 

 somewhat broader (Peralfea 5 ) longitudinal wing ; valves 2, coriaceous, 

 finally rather twisted. Seeds ovate compressed ; hilum dilated round 

 insertion of funicle into a fleshy aril ; embryo fleshy ; radicle short, 

 nearly or quite straight ; cotyledons almost ensheathing radicle. — 

 Shrubs, silky-villous or glabrous ; leaves imparipinnate exstipellate ; 



1 Mem. Legum., 230; Prodr., ii. 216.— Endl., Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., ii. 65.— \Vali\, Rep.,\. 

 Gen., n. 6647.— B. H., Gen., 493, n. 90.— Cordaa 759. 



Spreng., Syst., n. 2847 (ex Endl.). * Nov. Gen. el Spec., vi. 465, t. 587, 588.— 



2 Small, "purplish." DC, Prodr., ii. 475. — Endl., Gen., n. 6541. — 



3 Species 2. Cav., Icon., t. 59 (Lvpinm).— B. H., Gen. 495, n. 93. 



LnfiEiT., Slirp., t. 78 (Dolichos).— Wight & fi H. 15. K., he. cit., 469, t. 589.— DC, Prod,:, 



Abn., Prodr., i. 196. — Guill. & Pbbe., ii. 474.— Endl., Gen., n. QbQZ.—Megastegia 



Fl. Seneg. Tent., i. 171, t. 45.— Bakek, in Don (U.), Gen. Syst., ii. His. 



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