LEGUMINOSJB-PAPILIONA CE2E. 



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base, deciduous ; flowers 1 in few-flowered axillary racemes sometimes 

 bearing leaves at base ; bracts and bractlets broad foliaceous. {Andine 

 America from Mexico to Bolivia 2 ). 



139. Poiretia Vent." — Calyx subcampanulate ; teeth 5, short un- 

 equal. Petals shortly unguiculate ; standard broadly orbicular ; 

 wings falcate-oblong ; keel much curved, oblong, beaked or more 

 rarely obtuse. Stamens 10, 1-adelphous; filaments connate into a 

 closed sheath ; anthers uniform. Germen sessile ; ovules <* ; 

 style slender curved ; apex minutely capitate, stigmatiferous. 

 Legume linear; segments flat rectangular, membranous or co- 

 riaceous, reticulated or sprinkled with warty glands. — Herbs or 

 undershrubs, nearly erect or twining, covered with balsamic glands ; 

 leaves pinnate, 4- or more rarely 3-foliolate ; stipules sessile or decur- 

 rent at base ; flowers 4 in axillary or terminal branched racemes ; 

 bracts lanceolate or subulate ; bractlets small, inserted on pedicel. 

 {South America, Mexico 5 ). 



140. Chsetocalyx DC. 6 — Calyx gamosepalous to a considerable 

 height, capitate glandular outside ; lobes 5, nearly equal or 2 su- 

 perior approximated, often linear subulate. Standard suborbicular 

 or obovate, emarginate ; wings about equal to standard, oblong ; 

 keel obtuse, scarcely shorter than standard. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous 

 (9-1); anthers uniform. Germen shortly stipitate, cc-ovulate; style 

 filiform curved ; apex stigmatiferous. Legume linear, subterete or 

 piano-compressed, scarcely constricted between seeds ; segments 

 1- seeded, linear-oblong or more rarely square (Planarium 1 ), longitu- 

 dinally ribbed or striated. Seeds oblong or reniform, exarillate. — 

 Twining herbs ; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; stipules linear or 

 lanceolate ; flowers s racemose few, either axillary or terminal on a 

 slender elongated twig 9 {Tropical and sub-tropical America 10 ). 



1 Rather large, yellow. 



2 Bot. Mag.,t. 4008. 



3 Choix de Plant., t. 42 (nee Gmel., nee 

 Smith, nee Cav.). — Desvx., Joum. Bot., i. 122, 

 t. 5. — DC, Prodr., ii. 315. — Endl., Gen., n. 

 6595. — B. H., Gen., 513, n. 152.— Turpinia 

 Pees., Syn., ii. 314. 



4 Yellow. 



5 Species 5. H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec, vi. 

 510. — Vog., in Linnna, xii. 51. — Bentii., in 

 Mart. Fl. Bras., Papil., 78, t. 20.— Wali\, 

 Rep., i. 725 ; v. 520. 



6 Mem. Legum., 262; Prodr., ii. 213.— Endl., 

 Gen., n. 6537.— B. H., Gen., 513, n. 150.— 

 Bcenningliausenia SrKENG., Syst., iii. 215 (net' 

 Reichb.). — Mkadinocarpus Vog., in Linnaa, 

 xii. 108.— Endl., Gen., n. 6628. 



7 Desvx., in Ann. Se. Nat., ser. 1, ix. H6. 



8 Yellow. 



9 A genus entirely similar in habit to Iso- 

 desmia,\mt differing by the fruit and androceum. 



10 Species 8 or 9. Lindl., in Bot. /w,</., t. 

 799 (Glycine).— Bestb., in M<irt. Fl. Bras., 

 Papil, 74, 1. 18; Sulph., 81, t. 30 (Planarium).— 



