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straight or falciform, plano-compressed coriaceous 2-valved; sutures 
a little thickened. Seeds ovate or orbicular, compressed ; embryo 
exalbuminous; cotyledons flat; radicle short included.—Low or 
weak trees, unarmed; leaves 1--foliolate; stipules leaf-like 
caducous ; flowers in short few-flowered racemes; racemes terminal 
or sessile at defoliated nodes; bracts small; bractlets persistent 
connate very short (Zropical America). See p. 96. 
31. Brownea Jacqg.—F lowers of Palovea ; calyx 4-merous, valvate 
or imbricated; petals 5, slightly unequal, imbricated. Stamens 
10-15, free or unequally monadelphous. Legume oblong or elon- 
gated, straight or falcate, coriaceous or subligneous, 2-valved; pla- 
cental suture thickened or dilated; seeds ovate compressed ; embryo 
of Heterostemon.—Trees ; leaves paripinnate ; stipules leaf-like, often 
coloured, caducous; flowers handsome, in short terminal few-flowered 
or very dense, subcapitate racemes ; bracts small or large, coloured ; 
bractlets coloured, enclosing calyx, connate to a variable height 
(Zropical America). See p. 97. . 
32. Saraca Burm.—Flowers of Hwmboldtia; calyx coloured ; 
corolla 0; stamens 3-10, either all fertile or 1-6 sterile or antherless ;. 
filaments free or connate close to base. Legume oblong or elongated, 
plano-compressed or rather turgid, coriaceous-subligneous 2-valved. 
Seeds thick-compressed or subglobose, ovoid or cylindrical, exarillate ; 
embryo exalbuminous; cotyledons thick, sometimes very thick ; 
radicle straight included.—Trees or shrubs, rarely. climbing; leaves 
paripinnate ; leaflets coriaceous, usually paucijugate; stipules small 
caducous or 0; flowers in compound, usually short, much-branched 
lateral racemes; bracts small deciduous; bractlets lateral, much 
shorter than receptacular tube, tapering margins often imbricated 
before anthesis (Zropical Asia). See p. 97. 
33. Apalatoa Auvsi.—Flowers apetalous (of Saraca); stamens 10 
or fewer, free fertile. Germen shortly stipitate, excentric or more 
rarely subcentral, 2—4- or more rarely «-ovulate. Legume obliquely 
orbicular, ovate, or rather broad oblong compressed, coriaceous 2- 
valved ; sutures often thickened. Seeds 1 or few, compressed ; embryo 
exalbuminous compressed.—Unarmed trees; leaves imparipinnate ; 
leaflets alternate ; stipules minute or broad leaf-like, persistent i 
