LEGUMINOS4-CHSALPINIE. 105 
Fperua' (figs. 81, 82) has nearly the flowers of Berlinia and 
Daniella: the same receptacular tube with the foot of the gynzeceum 
similarly inserted on its posterior wall, the same decandrous an- 
droceum, and the same corolla reduced to the posterior petal ; but 
this last is very large, completely covering the androceum in the bud. 
The gamosepalous calyx is divided above into four unequal imbricate 
lobes. The staminal filaments are free, or very slightly united at 
the base. This union is a little more marked in Parivoa grandiflora,’ 
which is only distinguished by this character from Eperua proper, 
Eperua (Parivoa) grandiflora. 
Fie. 81. Fie. 82. 
Flower. Longitudinal section of flower. 
and which cannot be generically separated from it. The ovary is sur- 
mounted by a style which is at first rolled up and ends in a slightly 
dilated stigmatiferous apex; in the cell are two or more descending 
anatropous ovules whose micropyles look upwards and outwards. 
The fruit is a more or less oblique large flattened elongated bivalve 
pod, containing one or few exalbuminous seeds ; the fleshy cotyledons 
are prolonged into a sort of sheath surrounding the straight superior 
radicle. Zperua consists of unarmed slender subsarmentose trees 
1 Avey., Guian., i. 369, t. 142.—J., Gen, 2 AuBL., op. cit., 756, t. 303 —DC., Loe. cit., 
350.—DC., Prodr., ii. 510.—Spacu, Suit. &@ ccelvi. — Enpu., Gen. n. 6801. — Dimorpha 
Buffon, i. 117.—Ewv1., Gen., n. 6800.—B.H., Rupa, in Trans. Linn. Soc., ix., t. 20.—Adleria 
Gen., 580, n. 344.—Rotmannia Nucx., Elem., NecK., op. cit., vn. 1286. In habit it differs 
n. 1284.—Dimorpha Scures., Gen. 493.— slightly from Eperua proper. 
“Panzera W., Spee. ii. 540. 
