LEGTJMIN0S2E-PAPILI0NACE2E. 315 



anthers uniform. Germen sessile 1 -ovulate; style filiform; stigma 

 terminal capitate. Legume ovoid 1 -seeded 2-valved, included by 

 calyx. Seed estrophiolate. — Perennial herbs or undershrubs, diffuse ; 

 leaves pinnate 3-foliolate ; leaflets small stipellate ; stipules free ; 

 flowers small, crowded in short dense subcapitate terminal racemes ; 

 bracts broad, imbricated, deciduous before anthesis" {East Indies, 

 Madagascar 1 ). 



165. Cranocarpus Benth. 2 — Flowers almost those of Desmodi/n,/ ; 

 calyx oblique ; 2 superior teeth broader. Petals narrowed for some 

 distance at base. Stamens 10, 1-adelphous; sheath not cleft; 

 anthers uniform. Germen subsessile ; ovule 1 ; style slender curved ; 

 apex minute stigmatiferous. Legume stipitate, much compressed, 

 subgaleate ; superior margin impressed at middle, much intruded at 

 position of seed ; inferior much arched ; faces convex ; seed reniform 

 exarillate. — A shrub ; leaves 1-3-foliolate ; terminal leaflet large 

 penniveined 2-stipellate ; 3 lateral small or ; stipules free setaceous 

 acuminate ; flowers 3 in axillary racemes ; pedicels solitary 2-brac- 

 teolate ; bracts small {Brazil). 



166. Lespedeza Michx. 4 — Receptacle very shortly cupuliform. 

 Calyx lobes or teeth 5, nearly equal or 2 superior connate to a rather 

 greater height. Petals unguiculate ; standard oblong or obovate ; 

 wings oblong falcate, free or adhering to keel ; keel curved, obtuse 

 or beaked. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1) ; more rarely vexillary 

 stamen connate with remainder ; anthers uniform. Germen sessile 

 or stipitate ; ovule 1 ; style slender curved ; apex minute stigma- 

 tiferous. Legume subspherical or ovate, rather compressed, reti- 

 culated indehiscent. Seed of same form as pericarp, exarillate. — 

 Herbs, undershrubs, or shrubs, rarely glabrous ; leaves pinnate 3- 

 foliolate or 1-foliolate, exstipellate ; stipules 2, small, often very 

 caducous; flowers 5 in racemes or fascicles; inflorescences axillary 

 or more rarely branched terminal ; bracts small 1 -flowered; bract- 



1 Species 1 or 2. Wight, Icon., t. 1056 Prodr., ii. 348.— Endt,., Gen., n. 6623.— 15. II., 

 (Nicolsonia). — Benth., in Plant. Jungh., i. 221 Gen., 524, n. 182. — Oxyramphis Wau.., Cat., 

 (Pesmodium). n. 5318-5350. — Campylotropis Bo-E., in -l,m. 



2 In Mart. Fl. Bras., Papil., 106, t. 28.— Sc. Nat., ser. 2, vi.57.— Endl., Gen., n. 6622. 

 B. H., Gen., 523, n. 181. Plilrhnspuriinn Jrxou., Ileise, 3I<!, ex Flora 



3 " Yellow or whitish." (1347), 508. 



4 Fl. Bor.-Amer., ii. 70, t. 3D, 40.— DC, 5 White, pink, or purplish. 



