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excentric, o-ovulate; style thin; apex slightly dilated or truncated, 
stigmatiferous. ‘Legume oblong or broadly-linear, often falcate, 
compressed subligneous 2-valved; placentary suture thick. Seeds 
transverse, ovate or orbiculate, compressed; embryo exalbuminous 
fleshy; cotyledons flat; radicle short straight included.” — Un- 
armed trees; leaves alternate paripinnate ; leaflets 1- or paucijugate 
unsymmetrical coriaceous; stipules very short caducous; flowers 
crowded in simple terminal and axillary, or in terminal much-branched 
racemes; bracts small or gland-like; bractlets 0 or rather large, 
obovate-concave, including bud as 2 valves (Zropical Africa). See 
p. 108. 
42. Hymenea L.—Flowers thick; receptacle thick, campanulate 
or turbinate, lined by a disk. Sepals 4, much imbricated, coriaceous ; 
highest sepal broader. Petals 5, sessile, slightly unequal (Courbaril, 
Peltogyne), or more rarely 2 anterior very small scale-like or 0 (Zra- 
chylobium) ; much imbricated in exstivation. Stamens 10, free peri- 
gynous. Germen stipitate, more or less excentric; style long or 
short ; apex stigmatiferous, more or less dilated, subpeltate (Pelto- 
gyne); ovules 2-00. Legume indehiscent, sometimes obliquely orbi- 
culate or scimitar-shaped, more or less winged above (Pelfogyne), 
sometimes ovoid or oblong, more or less warty, coriaceous-sub- 
ligneous, sometimes short few-seeded (Zrachylobium), sometimes 
elongated (Courbaril); endocarp stuffed with thick floury hairs 
between seeds. Seeds of variable form, exalbuminous.—Unarmed 
trees; leaves 2-foliolate; leaflets unsymmetrical coriaceous ; stipules 
small caducous; flowers in dense compound much-branched, often 
corymbiform, terminal or subterminal, racemes ; bracts and bractlets 
short caducous, rarely shortly connate (Peltogyne) and persistent 
(Tropical America, eastern tropical Africa and adjoining islands). See 
p. 108. 
43, Tachigali Ausi.—Flowers markedly curved-clavate in bud; 
receptacle obconical, lined by a disk; mouth oblique. Sepals 5, 
slightly unequal, much imbricated. Petals 5, slightly unequal, im- 
bricated. Stamens 10, fertile. Germen stipitate, inserted posteriorly 
on receptacle below androceum, o-ovulate. Legume oblong or elon- 
gated, plano-compressed, indehiscent: (?). Seeds compressed ; albu- 
men thin; embryo compressed.— Unarmed trees ; leaves paripinnate ; 
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