LEGUMIN0S2E-PAPILI0NA CE2E. 



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between seeds, 2-valved. Seeds 1- co, suborbicular obovate or oblong 

 rather thick shining (of one colour or two 1 ) cotyledons ; radicle 

 short, straight. — Trees ; leaves impari- or subparipinnate ; leaflets 

 coriaceous, stipellate or more frequently exstipellate ; stipules small 

 or ; flowers 2 in usually branched axillary or terminal racemes ; 

 bracts and bractlets small inserted on pedicel, or minute (America, 

 trojncal Asia*). 



271. Pericopsis Tnw. 4 — Flowers of Ormosia; ovary stipitate. 

 " Legume stipitate broadly linear piano-compressed coriaceous inde- 

 hiscent (?) ; both sutures marginate. Seeds much compressed, 

 broadly ovate or orbicular ; cotyledons obliquely cordate at base ; 

 radicle somewhat incurved towards larger auricle." — A tree ; 5 leaves 

 imparipinnate ; flowers 6 racemose in upper axils or in branched ter- 

 minal racemes; bracts and bractlets minute, very caducous (Ceylon 1 ). 



272. Bowdichia H. B. K. 8 — Eeceptacle turbinate, disciferous 

 within. Calyx-teeth valvate or subimbricate. Corolla nearly of 

 Ormosia or Diplotropis. Stamens 10 very perigynous ; filaments 

 articulated at base free ; anthers versatile uniform, 1 or 2 often 

 wanting. Gernien stipitate excentric ; ovules co ; style slender in- 

 flexed at apex, stigma capitate. Legume (nearly of Deguelia) oblong 

 linear piano-compressed membranous indehiscent ; placentary suture 

 narrowly winged. Seeds oo 3 oblong transverse ; cotyledons thick 

 plano-convex ; radicle short incurved. — Lofty trees ; leaves impari- 

 pinnate ; leaflets co, exstipellate ; stipules narrow caducous ; flowers 9 

 in lax much branched terminal racemes ; bracts and bractlets small 

 (Tropical America™). 



273. Diplotropis Benth 11 . — Eeceptacle turbinate, disciferous 



1 Testa smooth, scarlet or variably spotted 

 with black. 



2 White, lilac, or dark purple. 



8 Species about 18. Wight, Icon., t. 245 

 (Sophora). — Wall., PI, As. Ear., t, 125.— 

 Benth., Fl, SongJcong., 96 ; in Mart. Fl, Bras., 

 Papil., 315, t. 125, 126.— Waxp., Sep., i. 807; 

 ii. 903 (Macrotropis) ; v. 549 ; Ann., iv. 587. 



4 Enum, Plant. Zeyl., 413.— B. H., Gen., 

 556, n. 277. 



5 With habit of Ormosia. 

 '' Dark purple. 



' Species 1. P. Mooniana Tinv., loc. cit. 

 The genus only differs from Ormosia in its 

 legume and curved radicle. 



s Nov. Gen, et Spec, vi. 3/6. — DC, Prodr., 

 ii. 519.— Endl., Gen., n. 6719.— B. H., Gen., 

 557, n. 279.— Sebipira Mart., Pels., 787.— 

 CeUpvra Pis., Brasil., 78. 



9 White or blue; petals rather crisp &i edges. 



10 Species 1 or 2. Benth., in Ann. Wien. Mas., 

 ii. 89; in Marl. Fl. Bras., Papil., 311, t. L23. 



11 In Ann. Wien. Mm., ii. 88. — Endl., Gen., 

 n. 6748.— B. II., Gen., 557, n. 278. 



