• LEGUMIN0S2E-PAPILI0NACEJ2. 299 



linear compressed, rather thick, longitudinal!}' striated in furrows, 

 somewhat warty or glandular- muricated ; segments oblong, unevenly 

 narrowed on both sides, hard or coriaceous. Seeds oblong com- 

 pressed descending subanatropous ; radicle scarcely or very shortly 

 inflexed. — Shrubs often tall, glutinous ; leaflets either en, small, or 

 1, large articulated; stipules striated ; flowers 1 few, in short axillary 

 racemes ; bracts and bractlets persistent striated ( Tropical Asia 

 and Africa, 2 Mexico*). 



135. Isodesmia Gardn. 4 — Flowers of JEschjnomene ; keel obtuse, 

 about equal to wings. Stamens connate into a sheath cleft above 

 or on both sides ; lowest stamen sometimes free. Pistil (of JEschy- 

 nomene) cc -ovulate. Legume sessile linear straight flattened ; seg- 

 ments coriaceous square, longitudinally net-veined. — Undershrubs, 

 climbing or twining ; leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets co, exstipellate ; 

 stipules persistent, not produced at base ; flowers 5 few, in axillary 

 racemes; bracts stip aliform persistent; bractlets persistent 6 (Brazil 7 ). 



136. Brya P. Br. 8 — Calyx gamosepalous ; lobes 5, narrowed, 

 nearly equal or lowest shorter than others. Petals unguiculate ; 

 standard oblong-obovate or suborbicular ; wings falcate oblong ; 

 keel curved obtuse. Stamens 10, 1-adelphous; filamental sheath 

 longitudinally cleft above ; anthers uniform. Grermen sessile or 

 stipitate ; ovules 2 ; style slender curved ; apex minutely capitate 

 stigmatiferous. Legume sessile or stipitate ; segments 1, 2, broad 

 flat membranous indehiscent ; one often small sterile ; superior 

 suture nearly straight ; inferior arched. Seeds reniform compressed 

 exarillate. — Small trees or shrubs ; leaves imparipinnate or 3-folio- 

 late ; petiole usually nearly abseDt ; 2 lateral leaflets of 3-foliolate 

 leaf small minute or ; stipules either spinescent persistent or 

 small narrowed deciduous ; flowers 9 in axillary or subterminal, few- 



1 Yellow, white, red, or purple -striped. differing by the legume, which is analogous at 



2 Species about 4. Wight & Arn., Prodr., i. once to that of Ormocarpum and to that of 

 217. — Wight, Icon., t. 297. — A. Run., Voy. Chcetocalyx (the latter having almost the same 

 Astrol, t, 32.— Bakeb, in Ollv. Fl. Trop. Afr., habit). 



ii. 142. — Walp., Ann., i. 246. ' Species 2. Bbnth., in Mart. FL B 



3 G. Don, Gen. Syst., ii. 279.— ? A. Gray, Papil, 71, t. 16.— Wali\, Rep., v. 523. 



PL Thurber., 313 (Dauhentonia ?). — Walp., * Jam., 299, t. 31, fig. 2.— DC, Prodr., ii. 



Ann., iv. 493. 421.— Endl., Gen., n. 6592.— B. H., Gh n., 514, 



4 In Hook. Journ., ii. 339. — B. H., Gen., 514, n. 155. — Aldina Adans., Fam. des PL, ii. ;*Js 

 n. 156. (nee Endl.). 



3 Yellow, rather large. 9 " Yellow ?" 



6 A genus closely allied to JLschyiiomene, but 



