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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



corrugated, indehiscent or dehiscent at inferior suture. — Herbs, 

 undershrubs, or shrubs, not twining; leaves pari- or impari- 

 pinnate ; leaflets oo, exstipellate ; stipules setaceous or lanceolate ; 

 either produced below insertion and peltately affixed below middle 

 {Eumschynomene x ) or not produced at base, striated, usually persistent 

 {Ochopodiunf) \ flowers 3 in axillary or more rarely terminal, simple 

 or branched racemes ; bracts usually stipuliform ; bractlets inserted 

 below flower, appressed to receptacle {All hotter regions 9 ). 



129. Herminiera Guill. & Perr. 5 — Receptacle cupuliform, lined 

 by a disk. Calyx 2-labiate almost to base ; upper lip nearly 

 entire, rather obtuse ; lower nearly entire or rather acute and mi- 

 nutely unequally 3 -toothed at apex. Standard subsessile, broadly 

 orbicular ; wings shortly unguiculate, obliquely obovate ; keel about 

 equal to wings, obtuse, petals free. Stamens 10, 1-adelphous ; sheath 

 longitudinally cleft below, either not or only finally cleft above ; 

 anthers uniform. Germen subsessile, oo-ovulate; style slender; 

 apex minute stigmatiferous. Legume broadly linear, piano-com- 

 pressed, afterwards revolutely twisted into a ring or spiral ; segments 



oo, 1 -seeded square, finally separating. Seeds reniform exarillate. — 

 A tall shrub, shaggy with bristles ; leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets cc 

 exstipellate ; stipules membranous ; flowers 6 few, in short axillary 

 racemes; bracts and bractlets membranous, very caducous {Tropical 

 Africa 1 ). 



130. Scemmeringia Mart. 8 — Flowers of JEschynomene ; calyx 

 2-labiate. Petals after anthesis persistent scarious net-veined. 

 Staminal sheath cleft above or on both sides. Legume stipitate, 

 shorter than standard. Other characters of JEschynomene. — An 

 annual diffuse herb; leaves subimparipinnate, leaflets or, often 

 denticulate, exstipellate ; stipules striated, produced below insertion ; 



1 Vog., in Linnrea, xii. 81. — Macromiscus 

 Tukcz., in Bull. Mosc. (1846), ii. 507. 



2 Voo., loc. cit. — Patagonium Mey. (E.), 

 Comm. PL Afric. Austr., 122 (nee Schhanck). 



3 Yellow, often purple-striped. 



4 Species about 30. Wight, Icon., t. 299, 

 405.— Wight & Aen., Prodr., i. 21G. — Toee. & 

 Gb., Fl. N. Amer., i. 355. — Jacqttem., Yoy., 

 Pot., t. 48.— Benth., in Mart. Fl. Bras., PapiL, 

 57, t. 12; Fl. Austral., ii. 226.— Haev. & Sokd., 

 Fl. Cap., ii. 225.— Bakee, in Ollv. Fl. Trap. 



Afr., ii. 145.— Walp., Pep., i. 732 ; ii. 889 ; v. 

 521 ; Ann., ii. 412 ; iv. 535. 



5 Fl. Seneg. Tent., i. 201, t. 51.— Endl., 

 Gen., n. 6552.— B. H., Gen., 515, n. 158.— 

 JEdemone Kotsch., in (Ester. Mon. (1858), t. 1. 



6 Orange-coloured, large. 



7 Species 1. H. elaphroxylon Guill. & Peee., 

 loc. cit. — Walp., R<p., v. 516. — JEdemone 

 mirabilis Kotsch., loc. cit. 



8 Dissert, de Scemmeringia (1828), icon. — 

 Endl., Gen., n. 6606. — Benth., in Mart. Fl. 

 Bras., PapiL, 70 ; Gen., 516, n. 160. 



