368 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



filament. Germen excentric, long-stipitate on posterior wall of 

 receptacle ; ovules 1, 2, descending ; style short incurved ; apex minute 

 stigmatiferous. Legume stipitate thickened and indurated at apex, 

 tapering below on either side into a long wing ; posterior wing 

 broader than anterior ; pericarp indehiscent, containing balsamic 

 cavities round seed. Seed 1, descending subreniform ; testa thin; 

 embryo thick ; cotyledons plano-convex or more or less subruminate; 

 radicle short incurved. — Balsamiferous trees ; leaves alternate im- 

 paripinnate ; leaflets exstipellate, sprinkled with round and shortly 

 linear pellucid dots ; flowers 1 racemose ; racemes simple axillary, or 

 simple compound, or fascicled at ends of branches ; bracts minute 

 rigid ; pedicels articulated at base ; bractlets inserted at a variable 

 height on pedicels, minute or {South America-). 



2S7 ? Ferreirea Allem. 3 — Calyx membranous subpetaloid trun- 

 cate ; teeth obsolete. Standard broadly suborbicular reflexed ; 4 

 inferior petals subsimilar free narrowly oblong. Stamens free, 

 slightly shorter than petals ; anthers uniform ovate. Germen shortly 

 stipitate 1 -ovulate; apex produced into a membranous transversely 

 veined wing thickened behind, indehiscent. Seeds oblong subreni- 

 form compressed ; testa membranous ; cotyledons not thick ; radicle 

 incurved. — A tall tree ; leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets co, small ex- 

 stipellate ; flowers' racemose ; racemes slender panicled at end of 

 branches; bracts and bractlets small very caducous" 5 (Brazil). 



288? Camoensia Welw. 6 — Calyx (receptacle?) campanulate or 

 very long ; lobes 5, imbricate. Corolla papilionaceous ; petals un- 

 guiculate corrugated ; standard broadly orbicular ; wings and keel- 

 petals ovate or cuneate, free. Stamens 10, free ; anthers uniform 

 versatile. Germen stipitate; ovules cc ; style filiform, involute in 

 bud; stigma terminal small or capitate. Legume broadly linear 

 piano-compressed thick-coriaceous 2-valved. Seeds obovate trans- 



1 Whitish. 3 In 2W;. Soc. Velloz., 26, icon.— B. H., 



2 As many as 6 species have been described, Gen., 558, n. 2S !. 

 but there are probably only 2 or 3 variable. * « Small, yellow." 



Lamk., Diet., iv. 191; Suppl., iii. 708; ///., t. s "A genus nearly resembling Tipuana in 



341, fig. 2 (Myrospermum).— H. B. K., Nov. leaves and legume, but in flowers nearly akin to 



Gen. et Spec., vi. 374.— Kl., in Hayne Arzen., Boiodiehia and Myrospermum (or Toluifera) 



xiv. 1. 11, 12.— A. Rich., Fl. Cub., i. 166, t. 38.— (Be>tii.). 



Benth., in Mart. Fl. Bras., Fapil., 310.— ' « Ex '^ H Ge „ 557 i 02, n. 281. 

 Walp., Rep., i. 805. 



