LEG TIMINGS JE-TATILION ACE JE. : !< C 



subulate; bractlets 2, narrowed, inserted at top of pedicel below 

 flower (Brazil 1 ). 



143. Adesmia DC. 2 — Receptacle concave short, lined by a rather 

 prominent disk. Calyx gamosepalous ; lobes 5, nearly equal or 

 lowest and 2 superior a little longer. Petals unguicuiate, usually 

 shortly : standard orbicular or obovate ; wings obliquely oblong or 

 obovate, sometimes short ; keel obtuse, acute, or beaked, shorter than 

 standard. Stamens 10, free; 2 superior filaments sometimes adnate 

 to claw of standard, dilated at base ; anthers uniform. Germen 

 sessile ; ovules 2- co ; style slender ; apex truncate or minutely capi- 

 tate, stigmatiferous. Legume co-jointed ; 3 superior suture usually 

 straight ; inferior deeply sinuate ; segment flat or convex, glandular 

 or pilose, or oftener covered with long bristles or glandular hairs, 

 separating from each other altogether or on side of superior margin, 

 indehiscent or 2-valved. Seeds subglobose or orbicular. — Herbs or 

 undershrubs, unarmed ; or oftener small shrubs, sometimes armed 

 with spinescent petioles, often glandular dotted balsamic ; leaves pari- 

 or imparipinnate ; leaflets 3- co, entire or dentate, exstipellate ; 

 stipules of variable form ; flowers 4 in terminal racemes ; bracts small 

 1 -flowered (Subtropical South America*). 



144? BremontieraDC. 6 — Calyx short subcampanulate ; 2 posterior 

 teeth a little shorter and broader than anterior. Petals much ex- 

 serted, unguiculate ; standard obovate ; wings obliquely oblong ; keel 

 about equal in length to wings, slightly curved, rather obtuse at 

 apex. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1) ; anthers uniform; connective 

 subglandular at back, coloured, apiculate. Germen subsessile; 

 ovules oo ; style slender glabrous inflexed ; apex capitate stigma- 

 tiferous. Legume long cylindrical arched moniliform, septate with- 

 in and contracted outside between seeds ; segments oo, truncate a 



1 Species 1. C. WeddelUanum H. Bn., loc Hook., Bot. Misc., t. 104, 105. — Hook. & Arn., 

 cit. Beech. Voy., Bot., t. 9. — Benth., in Mart. Fl. 



2 In Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 1, iv. 91; Mem. Bras., Papil, 53, t. 11.— Cl., in C. Gay Fl. 

 Legum., t. 48-50; Prodr., ii. 318. — Endl., Gen., Chil., ii. 151, t. 18. — Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard., 

 n. 6603.— B. H., Gen., 517, n. 164. ser. 2, t. 222, 230, 322.— PuiLirp., Fl. Atacam., 



3 Finally folded, included in Streptodesmia 15.— Bot. Reg., t. 1720. — Walp., Rep., i. 728 ; 

 A. Gray {Bot. Amer. Expl. Exped., i. 427, t. ii. 889; Ann., i. 246 ; ii. 407; iv. 534. 



47), which is a species of Adesmia. 6 In Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 1, iv. 93; 3L'm. 



4 Yellow or red-striped. Legum., 353 ; Prodr., ii. 353. — Endl., Gen., n. 



5 Species about 70. Jacq., Tc. Rar.,t. 568 6627.— B. H., Gen., 464.— H. Bn., in Adan- 

 {Hedysarum). — Presl., Symbol., t. 61-63. — sonia, ix. 234. 



