250 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
axil of each bract; rachis of fascicle node-like; bracts and bractlets 
small caducous (Brazil). ; 
42. Pueraria DC.’—Receptacle somewhat concave lined by a 
disk, slightly projecting gyneceum. Calyx gamosepalous to a con- 
siderable height ; lobes or teeth 5, usually very unequal, imbricated ; 
2 superior connate into one 2-toothed or subentire. Petals very 
dissimilar ; standard orbicular or obovate, 2-auriculate; wings 
narrowed for some distance from base, obliquely subfalcate; keel of 
variable form, about equal to wings. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous 
(9-1); vexillary stamen free or. connate with remainder to a variable 
height; anthers uniform. Germen subsessile w-ovulate; style 
inflexed or curved, glabrous; apex capitate stigmatiferous. Legume 
elongated, more or less membranous or thick, compressed or subterete, 
continuous: or stuffed within, 2-valved. Seeds variable-—Shrubs or 
undershrubs, high twining; leaves pinnate 38-foliolate stipellate ; 
stipules herbaceous ;* flowers‘ in few-flowered cymes, one in axil of 
each bract, arranged along axillary or terminal branched racemes ; 
bracts small caducous; pedicels articulated; bractlets small elevated 
close to fluwer, caducous or persistent, closely applied to calyx 
(Tropical Asia, Japan’). 
43. Canavali Apams.‘’—Receptacle more or less concave, lined by 
a disk produced round germen into a usually crenate ring. Calyx 
gamosepalous; lobes 5, very unequal, connate into 2 lips; superior 
lip large or very large, 2-lobed or truncated; lower lip usually very 
small, 3-lobed or subentire ; sestivation imbricated. Corolla almost 
that of Phaseolus; standard large, suborbicular or broadly obovate, 
reflexed ; wings free, faleate or a little twisted; keel broader than 
wings, obtuse or obtusely beaked, curved or inflexed or spirally 
twisted.’ Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1) at base; vexillary stamen 
1 Benry , in Mart. Fl. Bras., Papil., 167, t. 5 Fam. des Pl., ii. 325.—Canavalia DC., 
45. 
2 In Ann, Se. Nat., sér. 1, iv. 97; Prodr,, ii. 
240; Mém. Légum., 252, t. 43.—ENDL., Gen, 
n. 6632.—B. H., Gen., 537, u. 218.—Neustan- 
thus Bentu., in Plant, Jungh., i, 234. , 
3 Sometimes produced below insertion. 
¢ Blue, violet, or purplish. 
5 Species about 10, Wuiaut, Icon. t. 412 
(part.).—M1q., Fl. Ind. Bat., i. p. 1, t. 44— 
Bents., in Journ. Linn, Soc,, ix. 121. 
Mém. Légum., 375; Prodr., ii, 404,—ENDL., 
Gen., n. 6663.—B. H., Gen., 537, n. 219.— 
Clementea Cayv., in Ann. Scienc. Nat., vii. 68, t. 
47.—Sprene., . Syst., 584.—Malocchia Savi, 
Mem. Phaseol., iii. 1.— Wenderothia SCHLTL., in 
Linnea, xii. 330. 
7 This genus is divided into two sections, ac- 
cording to the character of the perianth, as 
follows: “1. Cochlitropis. Superior lip of calyx 
truncate, and often acuminate. Standard with- 
