162 Mr. Bentham on the Structure and Affinities q/" Arachis and Voandzeia. 



Stylus brevissimus, incurvus. Stigma terminale, obliquum, incrassatum. 

 Legumen (sec. Torrey in litt.) 1 — 3-articulatum, articulis iiidehiscentibus, 

 oblongis, turgidis, hispidis, monosperinis. Radicula recta. 

 Herba siiberecta, hirsuta, viscida. Folia irregulariter impari-pinnata. Stipuloe 

 liberse, membranaceee, deciduee. Racemi terminales, laxi, subcoinpositi. 

 Pedunculi 1 — 3-flori, floribus bibracteolatis ad axillam bracteee ovatse 

 sessilibus. 



In the ordinary perfect flowers I cannot find any trace of stigmatic papillae, 

 nor the slightest disposition on the part of the ovarium to swell, except in a 

 single instance, where I observed a glabrous ovarium somewhat swollen, and 

 apparently advancing towards maturity, surrounded by the withered tube of 

 the calyx, and terminating in a short filiform style withered or broken off at 

 the extremity. 



Feb. 1839. 



