LEGUMIN0SJ1-PAPILI0NA CE2E. 



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young linear or oblong, compressed, terminated by style). Seeds 

 distant. — Trees ; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; leaflets alternate ; 

 stipels minute or ; stipules very caducous or inconspicuous ; 

 flowers, 1 in short, axillary or lateral, racemes, scattered along rachis ; 

 bracts and bractlets small" {South America 2 ). 



17S. Andira Lamk. 3 — Calyx gamosepalous ; teeth 5, short or 

 nearly absent. Standard suborbicular or obovate, tapering at base 

 into a claw ; wings and keel-petals (the latter dorsally imbricated), 

 nearly similar, oblong. Stamens 10, 1-adelphous or oftener 2-adel- 

 phous (9-1) ; anthers versatile. Germen subsessile or oftener stipi- 

 tate ; ovules 1 or oftener 2-4 ; style short curved ; apex minute 

 stigmatiferous. Fruit drupaceous,' ovoid or obovoid, often rather 

 compressed ; mesocarp more or less fleshy ; endocarp thick woody 

 indehiscent, 1 -seeded. Seed descending; embryo very fleshy, thick 

 exalbuminous ; cotyledons plano-convex ; radicle short straight su- 

 perior. — Trees ; leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets opposite or alter- 

 nate ; stipels small setaceous or ; stipules narrow or minute ; 

 flowers 5 scattered or cymose, usually crowded, on much branched 

 terminal racemes ; pedicels very short ; bracts and bractlets short 

 caducous {Tropical America* and Africa 1 ). 



179? Geoftrsea L. s — Flowers nearly of Andira; teeth or lobes 

 of calyx nearly equal or 2 superior connate to a greater height. 

 Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1). Germen sessile or shortly stipitate ; 

 ovules few descending. Fruit drupaceous (nearly of Andira), 

 ovoid obovoid or globose. Seed 1 (of Andira). — Large or small 

 trees ; leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets alternate or subopposite ; 

 stipels rarely conspicuous ; stipules acute or acuminate ; flowers 9 



1 " Yellow or whitish, mixed with red or violet; 

 petals glabrous." 



2 Species 3. Benth., in Mart. Fl. Bras., 

 Papil., 270, t. 95. 



3 Diet., i. 171 (part.) ; Suppl., i. 318 ; 111, 

 t. 604 — DC, Prodr., ii. 475.— Spach, Suit. a 

 Bitffon, i. 135.— Endl., Gen., n. 672G. — B. II., 

 Gen., 550, n. 255. — Immbricidia Vklloz., Fl. 

 Mum., vii. t. 104, 105. — ? Poltolobvum Peesl, 

 Hot. Bern., 63 (ex Bentu., loc. cit.). 



4 Like those of the Prunece. 



5 Pink or violet, sweet-scented. 



6 Species about 15. H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et 



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Spec., vi. 385. — Bekth., in Ann. Wien. Mas., 

 ii. 107 ; in Juurn. Linn. Soc, iv. Suppl., 118 ; 

 in Mart. Fl. Bras., Papil., 291, t. 109-116.— 

 Gkiseb., PL Cub. Wright., i. 179. 



? Species 1 or 2. H. Bx., in Adansonia, vi. 

 219, note I.—Bakek, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., 

 ii. 246. 



8 Gen., n. 878.— B. H., Gen., 551, n. 2:,6.— 

 Geqfroi/a DC, Prodr., ii. 476.— Exdl., <■ .. 

 n. 6725. — ? Acouroa Arm.. Guian., iii. 7.">:; 

 (part.). — Drakenstt inia Neck., Eli m„ n. 13 1 1. — 

 tfmari Marcg., Bra*., Il'1 (ex Endl.). 



9 Yellow, usually fetid. 



