178 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
stipules small caducous; flowers in axillary simple or terminal 
branched racemes ; bracts caducous; bractlets 0 (Zropical America). 
See p. 109. 
44, Schizolobium Voc.—Flowers of Zuchigali; mouth of recep- 
tacle rather less oblique. Legume unequally obovate, compressed 
l-seeded 2-valved; endocarp membranous subligneous, separating 
from membranous exocarp. Seed at apex of fruit, inclosed in winged 
separating endocarp, oblong compressed; albumen horny thick ; 
embryo compressed ; radicle straight exserted.—Lofty trees; leaves 
alternate 2-pinnate ; leaflets small «; flowers in axillary simple or 
terminal branched racemes; bracts shold caducous; bractlets 0 
(Tropical America). See p. 110. 
V. BAUHINIES. 
45. Bauhinia Pium.— Flowers hermaphrodite or more rarely 
polygamous, irregular resupinate ; receptacle lined by a disk, either 
shortly turbinate or tubular. Calyx, before anthesis entire and 
closed or contracted and shortly 5-toothed; on anthesis cleft in a 
variable manner or spathe-like; valvate or imbricated in zstivation. 
Petals 5, slightly or very unequal, imbricated ; highest petal inner- 
most. Stamens 10, perigynous; either all perfect and fertile ; anthers 
introrse 2-celled 2-rimose versatile; filaments free or connate to a 
variable height ; or else 1-9 reduced to sterile staminodes or alto- 
gether wanting. Germen subsessile or more frequently stipitate 
rarely furnished with a gland above base, central or excentric, in- 
serted anteriorly on receptacle, 2— -ovulate; style terminal; apex 
variably dilated or peltate, stigmatiferous. JLegume oblong or 
linear, straight oblique or falcate, membranous coriaceous or sub- 
carnose, continuous within or replete or septate between seeds, inde- 
hiscent or 2-valved. Seeds subglobose or ovoid, compressed ; testa 
thin or hard; embryo albuminous; cotyledons flat; radicle short, 
straight, oblique, or subinflexed, usually exserted.—Trees or erect 
or climbing shrubs; stem terete or unequally compressed or flattened, 
fasciated ; branches often furnished with simple tendrils at base of 
racemes ; leaves simple, 1-3-veined, entire or 2-lobed, or often 
2-foliolate ; end of petiole rather prominent between leaflets, awned ; 
stipules of variable form, often caducous ; flowers in simple terminal 
