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wings sometimes adherent to slightly curved keel above claw. 

 Germen sessile or shortly stipitate ; ovules 2- go. Legume obliquely 

 orbicular, oblong or elongated, flat, membranous or coriaceous, 

 inclehiscent ; style terminal ; superior or both sutures narrowly- 

 winged. Seeds 1 or several, reniform, ovate, or orbiculate, com- 

 pressed. — Trees or oftener climbing shrubs ; leaves imparipinnate ; 

 leaflets opposite ; flowers 1 in simple or branched racemes, solitary or 

 in pairs or oftener fascicled along rachis ; bracts and bractlets small, 

 usually caducous (Tropical Asia, eastern Africa and adjoining islands, 

 Australia, tropical America 2 ). 



VIII. GENISTEiE. 



194. Genista T. — Receptacle small, slightly glandular. Calyx 

 gamosepalous ; 2 superior lobes free or more or less connate; 3 in- 

 ferior connate into a 3-toothed lip. Corolla papilionaceous ; standard 

 subovate ; wings oblong ; keel curved or nearly straight, obtuse, 

 laterally 2-gibbous ; claws free or adnate to staminal tube. Stamens 

 10, 1-adelphous ; tube closed ; 5 alternate anthers shorter versatile ; 

 5 others longer subbasifixed. Germen sessile ; ovules 2- cc ; style 

 curved, inflexed, or more rarely circinate ; apex capitate or oblique, 

 stigmatiferous. Legume either subglobose or ovate, horny fleshy, 

 indehiscent (Bcelia) ; or slightly compressed, scarcely dehiscent 

 (Betama) ; or subrhomboidal oblique or falcate oblong, 2-valved, 

 valves hard (Brymospartum, Voglerd) ; or linear or elongated, nearly 

 straight, compressed, 2-valved, valves thin (Comiola) ; or more rarely 

 obliquely oblong, turgid, straight or falcate (Camptolobium). Seeds 

 1-co; embryo fleshy, sparingly or not albuminous; radicle in- 

 flexed. 3 — Shrubs or undershrubs ; branches virgate rush-like (Dry- 

 mospartnni), or spinescent (Voglera, Camptolobium), sometimes leafless 

 or with few 1-foliolate leaves {Bcelia, Betama), sometimes virgate ; 

 leaves 1-3-foliolate, usually small; stipules minute or 0; flowers 

 racemose, capitate, or fascicled at extremities of branches, solitary, 

 few, or fascicled on lateral branches ; bracts and bractlets small deci- 



1 White, pink, purple, or violet. 101 ; in Maut., Fl. Bras., PapiL, 2S7, t. 107.— 



2 Species about 10. Koxb., PL Command., Tmv., JSnum. Pi. Zeyl., 413. 



t. 192. — Wall., PI. As. Ear., t. 237. — Wight, a " The character of having estrophiolate seeds 



Icon., t. 87, 210, 214, 275. — DC, Prodr., ii. seems to us to accord pretty well with itshal.it, 



260, n. 13 (Lonckocarpus). — Benth., in /'/. although there is a doubt about the matter in 



•]<i>i ; jk., i. 2-j2; in Juunt. Linn. Soc, iv. Suppl., some species" (Benth.). 



