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dehiscing longitudinally. Germen subcentral, free stipitate in 

 bottom of receptacle ; ovules co, anatropous, 2-seriate ; style straight 

 elongated, at apex unthickened ostiolate stigmatiferous. Legume 

 obliquely ovate, compressed thick-coriaceous, 2-valved ; sutures 

 thickened. "Seeds 1-3, ovate transverse compressed exarillate 

 exalbuminous ; cotyledons flat orbicular ; radicle short inflexed." — 

 Small unarmed shrubs ; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; leaflets 

 stipellate ; stipules small subulate ; caducous ; flowers 1 in loose 

 axillary racemes ; bracts and bractlets small subpersistent 2 (Brazil*). 



293. Cordyla Lour. 4 — Flowers almost those of AliUna, apetalous ; 

 receptacle subcampanulate, lined by a disk ; 5 calyx entire valvate 

 before anthesis, finally unequally 3-5-lobed. Stamens co ; filaments 

 free or connate close to base, much inflexed in bud, finally exserted ; 

 anthers short, inserted by upper part of back, glandular above insertion, 

 rimose introrse. Germen central raised on a long stalk ; ovules cc ; 

 style short subulate arched ; apex minute stigmatiferous. Legume 

 stipitate ovoid acuminate, pulpy within. Seeds go ; albumen thin ; 

 embryo fleshy ; radicle inflexed. — Trees, unarmed ; leaves impari- 

 pinnate ; leaflets co, alternate ; stipules lanceolate caducous ; flowers' 1 

 in racemes fascicled at old nodes or more rarely axillary ; bracts and 

 bractlets small caducous 7 {Tropical Africa*). 



The genera we have just enumerated are classed according to the 

 rules laid down by Bentham. The order Papilionacca is thus 

 divided into eleven secondary groups or series, whose general cha- 

 racters we can now repeat : — 



I. Vicieve. — Flowers papilionaceous. Herbs with paripinnatc 

 leaves ; midrib ending in a short bristle or more frequently trans- 

 formed into a tendril ; leaflets often denticulate at the apex. Stamens 

 2-adelphous (9-1) or subadelphous. Pod bivalved (6 genera). 



1 Pink or purple. Pers., Syn., ii. 260. — Calycandra Lepr., ox A. 



2 A genus intermediate between Papilionacea; Kicu., Fl. Seneg. Tent., i. 30, 232, t. 0. 

 and Casalpiniece, which, perhaps, will be referred s Disk marked by thin longitudinal stria'. 

 to Sclerolobiece by preference when the seed is G White, scented. 



better known. 7 This genus is, no douht, closely related to 



3 Species 2. Walp., Rep., i. 815. Aldina. 



4 Fl. Cochinch., ed. Ulyssip. (1790), 411 (nee 3 Species 1 or 2. Kl., in Pet. Moss., Bot., 

 Pl.)— DC, Prodr., ii. 521.— Kndl., Gen., n. t. 4. 



6817. — B. H., Gen., 562, n. 2%.— Cordylia 



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