360 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



anthers linear versatile. Germen long stipitate ; ovules cc ; style 

 incurved tapering towards apex ; rather obtuse stigmatiferous at very 

 point. Legume elongated subfalcate turgid thick-woody, within 

 spongy between seeds, 2-valved. Seeds large subglobose or ovoid; 

 liilum linear ; embryo fleshy ; cotyledons thick plano-convex ; radicle 

 very short nearly straight or incurved. — A lofty tree ; leaves 

 imparipinnate ; leaflets large coriaceous ; stipules (apparently) ; 

 flowers 1 in short racemes on last year's branches ; bracts small ; 

 bractlets {Subtropical Australia 2 ). 



269. Alexa Moc. 3 — Eeceptacle cupuliform, disciferous within. 

 Calyx large coriaceous shortly sinuate-dentate, valvate (?). Corolla 

 subregular ; standard obovate emarginate or 2-lobed ; wing- and 

 keel-petals subsimilar free imbricate. Stamens 10, very perigynous 

 free ; anthers linear. Germen excentric stipitate ; ovules oo ; style 

 incurved pointed ; apex minute stigmatiferous. Legume large 4 

 elongated compressed woody, within continuous, 2-valved. Seeds 

 suborbicular compressed ; embryo fleshy ; radicle short straight. — A 

 lofty tree ; leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets large coriaceous ; flowers 5 in 

 lateral pendulous racemes at defoliated nodes ; bracts . . . . ? {Guiana 6 ). 



270. Ormosia Jacks. 7 — Receptacle cupulate, disciferous within. 

 Calyx gamosepalous ; 2 superior lobes longer and broader, usually 

 incurved ; pignoration subvalvate or slightly imbricate. Petals free 

 unguiculate ; standard broadly suborbicular or cordate ; wings 

 obliquely obovate ; keel-petals subsimilar to wings, incurved, usually 

 imbricated behind. Stamens 10, free; filaments articulated at base, 

 unequal; anthers versatile or (in 1-3 stamens) wanting. Germen 

 subsessile, ovules 2- co ; style slender; apex involute; stigma in- 

 trorse lateral. Legume oblong or elongated, more frequently short 

 and unequally obovate or subrhomboidal, compressed, or rather turgid 

 over seeds, thick-coriaceous continuous within, or spongy or septate 



1 Yellow or orange. 6 Species 1. A. Imperatricis.— Alexandra 



2 Species 2. One is doubtful, from the islands Imperatricis Schomb.— Walp., Rep., v. 564. 

 of New Caledonia; the other is C. oust rale A. ' In Tram. Linn. Soc, x. 300, t. 2.1-27. — 

 CUNN., loc. cit.— Benth., Fl. Austral., ii. 27.">. DC, Prodr., ii. 1)7.— Endl., Got., n. (1717. - 



3 In DC, Prodr., xiii. p. 2, 168. — B. H., B. H., Gen., 556, n. 276.— ? Macrotropis DC, 

 Gen., 556, n. 275. — Alexandra Schojib., Prodr., ii. 98.— Ekdl., Oen., n. 6744.— ? Touli- 

 Dissert. (1845), 18, icon, (iiec Bge.). eUba Adans., Fam. des PL, ii. 326. — Layia 



4 A foot and a half in length. Hook. & Akn., Beech. Voy. But., 1S3, t. 38. 



Orange, 1 ir 



6 V 



