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round margin into a woody or submembranous wing, 1 -seeded. Embryo 

 fleshy; radicle straigbt or sligbtly inflexed. — Trees; leaves pari- 

 pinnate ; leaflets opposite or alternate, exstipellate ; last leaflet sub- 

 terminal ; stipules small or ; flowers 1 in a mucb brancbed terminal 

 raceme bearing leaves at base ; bracts and bractlets membranous, 

 similar to larger lobes of calyx, deciduous 2 {South America 3 ). 



182. Euchresta Benn. 4 — Eeceptacle unevenly cupuliform, poste- 

 riorly gibbous, lined by a thin disk. Calyx gamosepalous ; teeth 5, 

 nearly equal. Corolla almost that of Coublandia ; petals long- 

 unguiculate. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1); anthers versatile. 

 Grermen long-stalked ; ovules 1, 2, descending; style slender curved; 

 apex minute stigmatiferous. Legume ovoid stipitate shining, papery 

 and fragile when dry, indehiscent. Seed 1 ; embryo exalbuminous ; 

 radicle short straight superior. — Shrubs, glabrous ; leaves alternate 

 imparipinnate ; leaflets 3-7, rather thick ; stipules minute caducous ; 

 flowers 5 in axillary and terminal racemes ; bracts narrow ; pedicel 

 usually geniculate below flower {Further India, Indian Archipelago, 

 Japan 6 ); 



183. Fissicalyx Bentrv — "Calyx-tube turbinate; limb acumi- 

 nate, entire or very shortly 2-toothed, sometimes cleft spathe-like on 

 an thesis. Petals inserted with stamens at top of tube ; standard 

 ovate ; wings obliquely oblong, free ; petals of keel nearly similar 

 to and a little smaller than wings, free. Stamens all connate into a 

 sheath cleft above; anthers versatile, 2-porous at apex. Grermen 

 shortly stipitate, 2-ovulate ; style filiform ; stigma minute terminal. 

 Legume flat, narrow itself, but oval-elliptical with its wings 

 indehiscent; sutures slightly projecting; edges longitudinally and 

 broadly winged at middle. Seed pendulous ; hilum small ; radicle 

 short straight superior. — A tree ; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; 



some 



1 Whitish, pink, or pale lilac, often hand- " Plant. Jav. Ear., US, t. 31.— END!., Gen., 



n. 6727.— B. H., Gen., 551, n. 254. 



8 This genus ought, perhaps, rather to be con- 5 White. _ 



Bidered a section of Coumarouna, with mem- 6 Species 2. Lksciien., in , 1,,,,. J fns., xv.. 



branous calyx and fruit tapering at margin. 481, t. 12 (Andira).-DL Prodr., u. 476, n. 6 



■ Species about 4. Mokic, PL Nouv. Amfr., (Andira ?).— Besth., in Jour,,. Unn. Soc, n . 



t. 62 (Commilo brum). — Besth., in Jowrn. Linn. Suppl., 117. # 



Soc, iv. Suppl., 127 ; in Mart. Fl. Bras.,Papil., 1 In Joum. Lmr Soc v 78; in Trans Lmn. 



804, t. 120,121. Soc, xxiii. 389, t. 39.-B. H., Gen., 552, n. loX 



