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GENERA. 
T. ADENANTHERES. 
1, Adenanthera L.—Flowers generally hermaphrodite, more 
rarely polygamous ; receptacle short concave. Calyx gamosepalous 
5-, or very rarely 4-toothed, valvate. Petals 5, or very rarely 4, 
eohering by margins to a variable height, valvate, or more rarely 
subimbricate at apex. Stamens 10, 5 alternipetalous, 5 shorter 
oppositipetalous ; filaments inserted a little above base of corolla, 
free ; anthers introrse 2-celled, 2-rimose; connective crowned by a 
deciduous shortly-stipitate gland ; pollen-grains o. Germen sessile 
or shortly-stipitate, tapering at apex into a slender style; stigma 
Small terminal; ovules 0, parietal 2-seriate descending anatropous ; 
smicropyle extrorse superior. Legume linear, often curved or 
falciform, compressed, or swollen over the seeds, 2-valved; valves 
entire convex, usually finally contorted, often divided within between 
the seeds by septa continuous with endocarp. Seeds thick; integu- 
ments hard, uniform in colour or of two. colours, enveloped by an 
epidermal pulp; albumen pretty copious, fleshy or horny; embryo 
inverted ; radicle short superior; cotyledons thick fleshy at base, 
auriculate and coalescing to form a short sheath round radicle.— 
Unarmed trees; leaves 2-pinnate; leaflets o-jugate; flowers in 
racemes or spikes, axillary or panicled at extremities of branches 
(Asia, Africa, tropical Australia}.—See p. 21. 
2. Elephantorrhiza Bunru.— Flowers hermaphrodite, more 
rarely polygamous (of Adenanthera). Legume almost. straight, 
plano-compressed thick coriaceous; sutures persistent continuous ; 
valves becoming free ; endocarp coming away entire from exocarp. 
Seeds transverse orbiculate compressed.—Low undershrubs; rhi- 
zome thick; leaves 2-pinnate; leaflets small o-jugate; glands 0; 
flowers in cylindrical racemes; racemes either axillary or several 
inserted on a short leafless scape (Southern Africa).—See p. 23. 
3. Stryphnodendron Mart.—Flowers of <Adenanthera; yrecep- 
