274 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



stipules either setaceous or broad herbaceous leaf-like, suborbicular 

 or subreniform ; flowers 1 sometimes axillary in twos or threes, some- 

 times in a terminal raceme, rarely appearing before leaves and 

 arranged in an elongated raceme springing from wood and bearing 

 thin few-flowered fascicles ; bracts and bractlets of variable form, often 

 caducous {Central America, Mexico 2 ). 



87. Harpalyce. — Mog. & Sesse. 3 — Calyx gamosepalous, much 

 elongated, usually arched in bud : lobes 5, very unequal, sometimes 

 free almost at base, either all connate into 2 nearly entire lips, or 

 2 lateral lobes smaller innermost ; aestivation imbricated, standard 

 large, shortly unguiculate, bare within ; wings falcate-oblong, 

 usually shorter ; keel elongated, recurved or a little twisted, obtuse. 

 Stamens 10, 1-adelphous, connate into a sheath cleft above; anthers, 

 5 linear, 5 alternate much shorter. Germen sessile oc -ovulate, style 

 glabrous, usually suddenly inflexed or subgeniculate below apex ; 

 summit scarcely capitate, stigmatiferous. Legume oblong or broadly 

 linear septate 4 between seeds or 1 -seeded short. Seeds oblong or 

 ovate ; funicle much dilated at hilum into an aril ; radicle straight, 

 very short. Erect shrubs ; branches often herbaceous and tomen- 

 tose ; leaves imparipinnate ; stipels rudimentary ; stipules small 

 caducous ; flowers 5 in short terminal, simple or branched, racemes ; 

 bracts and bractlets linear deciduous {Brazil, Mexico, Cuba*). 



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88. Lamprolobium Benth. 7 — "Calyx deeply cleft; 2 superior 

 lobes connate for a considerable height. Standard orbicular, without 

 appendages ; wings obliquely oblong free ; keel curved obtuse. 

 Stamens all connate into a cleft sheath ; anthers uniform. Germen 

 shortly stipitate, oo- ovulate ; style curved beardless filiform ; stigma 

 terminal. Legume stipitate oblong, linear piano-compressed. Sep- 

 tate within between seeds, 2-valved ; valves coriaceous. Seeds 

 oblong compressed strophiolate ; radicle short straight. — A shrub ; 

 leaves imparipinnate exstipellate ; stipules minute ; flowers 8 small 



1 Carnation, purplish, or violet. < Septa finally easily separable from endocarp. 



2 Presl, Symb., t. 67.— Moric, PL N. Amir., 5 Scarlet or purple. 



t. 10.— Walp., Rep., i. 678; ii. 858; Ann., i. « Bextii., in Hook. Journ., iii. t. 5, 6; in 



231.— H. Bn., in Adansonia, ix. 240. Mart. Fl. Bras., PapiL, 50, t. 10.— Geiseb., 



3 Ex DC, Mem. Legum., 496 ; Prodr., ii. Cat. PL Cub. 71. 



523.— Endl., Gen., n. 6577.— B. H., Gen. 494, ' FL Austral., ii. 202.— B. H. Gen., 495, n. 



n. 92 (nee Don). <,,. 8 « Yellow." 



