LEGUMIN0S2E-PAPILI0NA GEM. 3G7 



bracts small ; bractlets or minute inserted at superior articulation 

 of pedicel {Brazil 1 ). 



285. Myrospermum Jacq. 2 — Receptacle long obconical incurved, 

 disciferous within ; mouth oblique. Calyx gamosepalous subcampa- 

 nulate ; teeth 5 very short broad obtuse, with resinous ribs ; pig- 

 noration . . . . ? Corolla papilionaceous ; standard broadly obovate, 

 much involute completely surrounding other petals, finally expanded ; 

 wings and keel-petals subsimilar to one another, shorter, narrower 

 sublanceolate acuminate. Stamens 10, free; filaments much elon- 

 gated exserted persistent ; anthers small ovate ; connective bearing 

 an oblong gland behind below apex. Grermen stipitate compressed ; 

 ovules 2-oo , obliquely descending anatropous ; style suberect subu- 

 late ; apex not thickened, stigmatiferous. Legume surrounded at 

 base by persistent receptacle calyx and filaments, long-stipitate, much 

 compressed phyllode-like veined, below acuminate apex indurated in- 

 flated and excavated, 1 -seeded, indehiscent, tapering for a long way 

 to base, unequally 2-winged ; superior wing a little broader than 

 inferior. Seeds descending oblong compressed ; cotyledons rather 

 fleshy, laterally unequally auriculate at base ; radicle superior short 

 incurved. — A tree or shrub ; 3 leaves alternate imparipinnate, leaflets 

 exstipellate, sprinkled with pellucid round and shortly linear dots ; 

 stipules minute 3-angular caducous ; flowers in simple axillary 

 racemes [Tropical and Central America and Antilles). 



286. Toluifera L. 4 — Receptacle obliquely turbinate, lined by a 

 glandular disk. Calyx gamosepalous, entire, in bud valvate ; un- 

 equally dentate just at expansion. Petals very perigynous, unequal ; 

 standard broadly orbicular ; wings and keel-petals subsimilar to one 

 another, much smaller, narrowly lanceolate. Stamens 10, inserted 

 with petals, filaments free or shortly connate at very base ; anthers 

 exserted uniform apiculate introrse 2-rimose, longer than very slender 



1 Species 2 or 3. Allem., loc. cit. — Benth., H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec, vi. 572, t. 570, 

 in Linnaa, xxii. 526 (Leptolobium). — Walp., 571. 



Ann., iii. 932. 4 Gen., n. 524 (1737).— J., Gen., 372.— 



2 Stirp. Amer., 120, t. 174, fig. 34.— DC, Myroxylon L. f., Swppl. (1781), 84 (nee 

 Prodr., ii. 94 (sect, i., Calusia Bert., excl. sect. Foest.). — DC, Prodi:, ii. 95 {Myrospermi sect, 

 ii.).— Endl., Gen., n. 6736 a. — B. H., Gen., 558, ii.).— A. Rich., in Ann. So. Nat., ser. 1. ii. 168.— 

 n. 285. Endl., Gen., n. 6736 (part.).— B. H., Gen., 558, 



3 Species 1. M.frulescens Jacq., loc. cit.— n. 286. 



