LEGUMINOSA:-PAPILIONACESS. 243 
cupuliform unequally crenate disk. Calyx gamosepalous, pilose 
within ; teeth or lobes 4, 2 superior connate into one, entire or 
emarginate ; estivation imbricated. Corolla papilionaceous; keel 
nearly straight, obtuse, shorter than wings. Stamens 10, 2-adel- 
phous (9-1); anthers uniform; connective glandular coloured. 
Germen sessile or shortly stipitate ; ovules 2, 1 descending, 1 often 
ascending; style subulate, beardless except at base, curved at apex ; 
summit minutely capitate, stigmatiferous. Legume (of Butea), at 
base winged for a considerable distance and empty at apex; 1-2- 
seeded, and late becoming 2-valved. Seeds flat, unequally obovate, 
exarillate——Chmbing shrubs; leaves pinnate 3-foliolate stipellate ; 
stipules minute persistent; flowers' in much-branched racemes, 
pedicels articulated at base; bracts and bractlets small, acute for 
same distance at apex (Zropical Asia and Africa (?)’). 
28. Glycine L.*—Receptacle slightly concave; calyx gamose- 
palous ; 2 superior lobes usually connate to a considerable height. 
Petals often very unequal; standard suborbicular or obovate, 
narrowed or subauriculate at base; margins inflexed; wings oblique 
narrow, more or less adhering to keel; keel shorter than wings or 
very short, obtuse. Stamens 10, l- or more rarely 2-adelphous 
(9-1); filament free at apex, usually filiform; anthers often short. 
Germen subsessile, 2—-ovulate; style linear curved, usually short 
beardless; apex capitate. Legume linear or falcate, more rarely 
broad falcate (Soja'), compressed or terete, cellularly septate within, 
2-valved. Seeds exarillate-—Herbs twining or prostrate, slender, more 
rarely erect; leaves pinnate, 3- or more rarely 5-7-foliolate stipellate ; 
stipules lateral, usually small; flowers’ in axillary racemes, either 
solitary or fascicled along the rachis, or else scattered (Leptocyamus') ; 
lower flowers (often apetalous) sometimes solitary at axils; bracts 
and bractlets minute, setaceous or narrow (Zropical and Subtropical 
Africa, Asia, and Australia’). 
belia, Zout., in Nat, Gen, Arch. (ex Hassk., in 
Flora [1847], 702). 
1 Small, crowded; white, pink, or purple. 
2 Species about 10. Wuieut, Icon., t. 210 
(Butea) —Baxzr, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., ii. 
183. 
3 Gen., n. 868 (nec Nutt.).—DC., Prodr.; ii. 
240.—EnpL., Gen., n. 6650.—B. H., Gen., 530, 
n.196.—Johnia Wiaut & ARN., Prodr., 449.— 
Enp1., Gen., n. 6646.—Notonia Wigut & ARN., 
loe. cit., 207 (nee DC.).— Bujacia E. Mey, 
Comm. Pl. Afr. Austr., 127. 
4 Manou, Meth., 153.—Savi, Mem. Phaseol., 
ii. 16.—DC., Prodr., ii. 396.—Enp1., Gen, u. 
6649. 
5 « Purplish or pale.” 
6 BentH., in Trans. Linn. Soc., xviii. 209.— 
ENDL., Gen., n. 6645.—Leptolobium BENTH., in 
Ann. Wien. Mus., ii. 124 (nec Voe.). 
7 Species about 12. Jacg., Icon. Rar., t. 145 
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