PHYSOLOBIUM CARINA'TUM, 
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GENUS. Paysorostum. Benroam. Caryx campanulatus, bilabiatim 
te ie atus. ConroLim vx late arbicdintom,; patens, basi subcallo- 
xappendiculatum, alis longi ALE adherentes; 
ee incurva, obtusa, alis bation vel subequal Sramina distincte dia- 
delpha, filamento vexillari recto inarticalato. ANTHER#& uniformes. VaGiIna 
disci nulla. Ovarium pluriovulatum. avis brevis, adscendens. Sricma 
Lt axil- 
estoy laxe paucifiori, subdichotomi. sacri et stipule late. Const coc- 
ci 
SPECIES. PuysoropruM cARINATUM. (Beyrnam,) Foliolis obovatis orbi- 
culatisve eink mucronulatis margine subun dulatis subtus ramulisque pubes. 
centibus, ee bracteisque lato-ovatis acuminatis ‘acme carina apice 
geniculata obtusissima. 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, PaysoLopium. Catyx bell-shaped, 
two-lipped, five-toothed. Corot.a: sTaNDARD broadly orbicular, 
spreading, without appendages at the base, longer than the wings; 
Wines adhering to the keel beyond the middle; Keet curved, blunt, 
shorter than, or nearly equal to, the wings. Stamens distinctly dia- 
delphous, the upper free, filament straight and without any joint. 
ANTHERS all alike. No sheath on the disk. Ovary with several 
ovules. StyzeE short, ascending. Stiema capitate. Pop oblong, 
swollen, imperfectly divided into several cells by a cellular substance, 
which at length disappears. Sexps strophiolate. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE ora cleo beg CARINATUM. STEM 
slender, climbing, but 1 to any great length, bearing as _— 
spreading hairs. Loar-sTanks slender, two = three inches long. 
-Learters three, with sh artia! 
ovate, or somewhat rh al, ibe e lateral ones Pa Opposite, inserted at 
some distance from the terminal one, nearly Jar, all of them very 
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