108 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
or more pairs of unsymmetrical leaflets, and caducous ill-developed 
stipules. The flowers form usually terminal shortly pedicellate 
racemes, simple or branched. 
Hymenee has the floral symmetry of Schotia or Humboldtia. Its 
coriaceous obconical receptacle, lined by a thick disk, bears four 
slightly imbricate sepals, five subequal imbricate petals, and ten 
free perigynous stamens, five alternate with the petals, and five 
shorter superposed to them. The gynzceum, inserted laterally at a 
variable distance from the bottom of the receptacle, is stipitate, with 
an ovary containing a few anatropous descending ovules, and bearing 
a style which is at first folded on itself and ends in a little stigma- 
tiferous head. The fruit is obliquely obovate or 
oblong, flattened or terete, thick coriaceous nearly 
woody, and indehiscent. It contains a variable 
number of seeds with very hard coats and a 
thick fleshy exalbuminous embryo. They are 
completely surrounded by a sort of dried up floury 
pulp.’ 
LTymenea venosa’ and verrucosa,‘ natives of tropical 
America and East Africa respectively, have been 
made the types of the genera Peltogyne® and Trachy- 
lobium,’ which we think we may retain as sections of 
the genus Hymenea. The former has the stigma 
more dilated than in Hymenea proper, and a com- 
pressed bivalve fruit whose dorsal suture is often, 
though not constantly, prolonged into a narrow 
wing. The latter has the two anterior petals ru- 
dimentary and its ovary is borne on a foot dilated at the top into 
a little fringed collar. Its fruit, indehiscent and often one-seeded, 
is covered with warts (fig. 84). 
Hymenea 
(Trachylobium) 
verrucosa. 
Fig. 84. 
Fruit. 
| Hymenea L., Gen. n. 512.—J., Gen., 351. 
—Gertn., Fruct., ii, 305, t. 189, 145.—Lamx., 
Dict., ii. 147; Suppl. ii. 374; ZU, t. 330.— 
DC., Prodr., ii. 511.—Hayn., Arzneig., t. 6-19. 
—SpacuH, Suit. & Buffon, i. 122.—EnD.., Gen., 
“n. 6788.—B. H., Gen., 583, u. 354.—Courbaril 
Pium., Gen., t. 36.—Apans.. Fam. des Pl., ii. 
317.—Jetaiba Pis., Brasil,, 60 (ex ADANS.). 
2 Consisting of a large number of hairs, which 
contain resinous matter, together with a great, 
abundance of starch granules, 
3 Vann, Eel. Amer., ii. 81.—DC., Prodr., 
n. 2, 
*Gemrty., Fruct., ii. 306, t. 189, fig. 7.— 
DC., loc. cit., u. 3.—Tanroujou J., Gen., 351, 
not. 
5 Voa., in Linnea, xi. 410.—ENDL., Gen., 
n. 6787.—B. H., Gen., 582, n. 353. 
§ Hayn., Arzneig., xi. t. 18, 19 (char. sub. t. 
11).—B. H., Gen, 583, u. 355.—Ottv., Fl. 
Trop. Afr., ii. 311. 
