LEGZmiNOSJE-PAPILIONACEJE. 365 



style short thick bowed, inflexed ; apex obtuse capitate stigmatiferous. 

 Legume stipitate oblong-lanceolate acuminate, slightly compressed 

 2-valved. — A branching tree ; leaves alternate simple large coriaceous 

 penniveined, shortly petiolate ; stipules small subulate ; flowers 1 in 

 short axillary simple or branched racemes ; bracts and bractlets under 

 flower minute caducous {North Brazil"). 



281. Ateleia Moc. & Sesse. 3 — Calyx gamosepalous obconical, 

 horizontally truncate entire, or very shortly 5-toothed. Petal 1, 

 vexillary, long-unguiculate ; limb broader subcucullate, finally inflexed. 

 Stamens 10, subhypogynous, free or 1-adelphous at very base ; anthers 

 uniform subovate compressed. Germen stipitate ; ovules 2 de- 

 scending ; stigma subsessile ovate bowed inflexed, on top of germen. 

 Legume stipitate, usually accompanied with unthickened persistent 

 calyx, much compressed subsamaroid membranous, narrowly and 

 shortly winged at straight superior suture, indehiscent. Seed reni- 

 form compressed attached laterally ; embryo exalbuminous ; radicle 

 inflexed accumbent. — Unarmed trees or shrubs ; leaves imparipinnate 

 stipules minute or ; flowers 4 in axillary, simple or slightly 

 branched racemes ; bracts narrow, 1 -flowered {Central America and 

 Antilles*). 



282. Belairia A. Rich. 6 — Receptacle obliquely- turbinate ; calyx 

 shortly 5-toothed. Petals acute erect ; standard trapeziform ; wings 

 and keel-petals subequal linear-lanceolate free. Stamens 10, free 

 exserted ; anthers uniform ovate. Germen stipitate ; ovules 2, 3 ; 

 style subulate incurved ; apex minute stigmatiferous. Legume stipi- 

 tate small oblong piano-compressed ; placentary suture marginate. 

 Seeds reniform compressed ; albumen membranous ; embryo fleshy ; 

 radicle incurved accumbent. — Shrubs ; leaves alternate paripinnate ; 

 leaflets small paucijugate ; stipules long-spinescent subulate ; flowers 

 pedicellate solitary or subfascicled at old nodes ; bracts caducous ; 

 bractlets small, persisting long {Cuba 7 ). 



1 Small, ochrey-wlnte. 57, fig. 1 (Pterocarpus). — A. EiCH., Fl. Cub., (. 



2 Species 1. P. longifolia Spruce, ex 42 (Sivartzia). — Griseb., PL Wright., in Mem. 

 Bentii., in Trans. Linn. Soc., xxv. 301, t. 35. Amer. Acad., viii. ISO ; Cat. PL Cub., SO. 



3 Ex DC., Mem. Legum., 395, t. 57; Prodr., 6 FL Cub., i. 511, t. 40.— 15. II., Gen., 55S, 

 ii. 419 (Plerocarpi sect. v.). — Benth., in Ann. n. 282. 



Wien. Mas., ii. 101. — Endl., Gen., n. 6711. — 7 Species 1. P. spinosa A. Utcit., I<h: tit. — 



B. H., Gen., 558, n. 283. Gkiseb., PL Cub. Wright., in J/> m. Amer. 



4 Whitish, small. Acad., viii. 179 ; Cat. PL Cub., 81, 284 



5 Species 2 or 3. DC, Mem. Legum., 10, t. 



