LEGUMINOS 2-PAPILIONACE 2. 237 
scarcely or not dilated. Legume linear, straight or curved, com- 
pressed or rather convex, subseptate or stuffed between seeds, 
2-valved.’ Seeds exarillate.—Shrubs or herbs, twining or prostrate ; 
leaves usually 3, more rarely 1—5—7-foliolate, stipellate; stipules 
small, often deciduous ; flowers’ in axillary racemes, solitary or in 
pairs or fascicled at axil of each bract; rachis of fascicle node-like 
small ; bracts and bractlets below flowers small (4// hotter regions’). 
16. Grona Lovr.‘—Flowers of Galactia ; 2 superior calyx-lobes 
connate at base or slightly beyond middle. Keel obtuse. Stamens 
10, 2-adelphous (9-1). Legume stuffed between seeds, 2-valved. 
Seeds orbiculate or ellipsoidal; funicle short, dilated at hilum 
into a small aril. Other characters of Galactia—Prostrate or 
twining herbs; leaves 1-foliolate stipellate; stipules caducous ; 
flowers in axillary or subterminal racemes, in twos or threes or 
fascicled in axil of each bract, pedicellate ; rachis of fascicle short, node- 
like; bracts small deciduous ; bractlets persistent rather late below 
flower (Tropical Asia’). 
17. Cymbosema Benra.’ — Flowers almost those of Galactia, 
but larger; 2 superior calyx-lobes connate into one, 2-toothed. 
Vexillary stamen free. Germen subsessile o-ovulate ; style curved 
beardless ; stigma terminal truncate. Legume oblong-falcate com- 
pressed, terminated by curved style, 2-valved. Seeds oblong or 
reniform, half surrounded by linear hilum, exarillate.-—T wining 
herbs ; leaves pinnate, 3-foliolate stipellate ; stipules small persistent ; 
flowers’ in a short raceme composed of a few 2-, 3-flowered fascicles; 
peduncle long; rachis of fascicle node-like; bracts and bractlets 
small (Zropical America’). 
1 Ripening underground in @. (Heterocarpea) 
canescens BENTH. 
2 Red, violet, or white; usually small or 
middle sized; handsome; petals broader in 
Collea DC., in Ann. Se. Nat., sér. 1, iv. 96; 
Prodr., ii, 240.—ENDL., Gen. n. 6657 (nec 
Sprene., nec LINDL.), which ought by no means 
to be separated generically from Galactia. 
3 Species about 40. Muicux., in #7. Bor.- 
Amer., ii, 261.—K., Mimos., t. 55, 56.—H. B. K., 
Nov. Gen. et Spec., vi. 428.— Jacq., Icon. 
Rar., t. 572, 573; Hort. Vindob., t. 76,— 
BEntzH,, in Ann. Wien, Mus., ii. 126; in Mart. 
Fl. Bras., Papil., 141, 144, t. 39, 40; Fl. 
Austral., ii. 255.—Torr, & Gr., Fl. N. Amer., 
i, 287.—Wiaut, Icon., t. 482 —Liwot., in Bot. 
Reg., t. 269.—GrisEs., Fl. Brit. W. Ind., 194; 
Pl. Wright. Cub., 376.—Baxer, in Oliv. Fl. 
Trop. Afr, ii. 188.—Watr., Rep. i. 761; ii. 
900; v. 581; Awm., ii. 421; iv. 554, 
4 Fl. Cochinch., ed. 1 (1790), 459.—BzntH., 
in Pl. Jungh., 233.—B. H., Gen., 535, n. 211. 
5 Species 2 or 3. 
8 In Hook. Journ., ii. 61; Gen., 584, n. 210. 
7 Handsome ; pink or purplish. 
8 Species about 2, Bznru., in Mart. Fil. 
