LEGUMINOS-PAPILIONACE. 257 
versely impressed outside between seeds, septate within. Seeds o, 
transversely oblong; funicle short, dilated at lateral hiluam.—Shrubs ; 
leaves imparipinnate stipellate ; stipules subulate persistent ; flowers’ 
racemose, 1-3in axil of each of subulate bracts, bractlets lateral, 
similar to calyx-lobes, inserted below flower (Zropical America and 
West Indies’). 
55. Peteria A. Gray.*—Receptacle widely obconical, lined by 
a rather thick glandular disk. Calyx tubular, somewhat gibbous 
above base ; lobes 5, nearly equal, imbricated ; 2 superior connate for 
a considerable distance. Standard oblong, furnished with a long 
claw, patent at apex, reflexed laterally bare within; wings free, 
obliquely oblong; keel curved obtuse. Stamens 10; 9 connate 
into a sheath cleft above, vexillary stamen free at very base; anthers 
uniform. Germen stipitate o-ovulate; style inflexed, capitate 
stigmatiferous below apex, bearded all round. Legume linear 
straight plano-compressed, continuous within, 2-valved; valves 
coriaceous ; sutures rather thick. Seeds oblong-ovate transverse 
exarillate—An undershrub, glabrous rigid branched; leaves im- 
paripinnate ; leaflets 0, minute exstipellate; stipules subulate, often 
finally spinescent ; racemes slender, terminal or opposite to leaves ; 
flowers’ scattered ; bracts minute ; bractlets 0 (Wew Mewico’). 
56. Sylitra E. Mry.'—Flowers small (of Zephrosia), calyx narrow, 
3 anterior lobes nearly equal, acute; 2 superior connate for a con- 
siderable distance. Standard furnished with a rather long claw; 
wings falcate, adhering to rather shorter keel. Stamens 10, 2-adel- 
phous (9-1) at base; vexillary stamen connate with remainder 
above into a closed tube; anthers small uniform. Germen 
sessile on-ovulate ; style inflexed at apex, beardless ; summit minutely 
capitate, stigmatiferous. Legume oblong plano-compressed submem- 
branous inflated (indehiscent). Seeds suborbicular exarillate-—An 
undershrub, slender hoary ; leaves alternate simple, shortly petiolate, 
1 Red. 
2 Species 1. B. pinnata.—B. polyphylia DC., 
loc. cit.—Pa rr. & Enpt., Nov. Gen. et Spec., 
iii. t. 264.—Bzntu., in Mart. Fl. Bras., Papil., 
t. 9.—Galactia pinnata Pzrs., Syn., ii. 302.— 
Clitoria polyphylla Porr., Dict. Suppl., ii. 
300. 
VOL. II. 
® Pl. Wright., i. 50.—B. H., Gen., 495, n. 95. 
4 « Yellowish.” 
5 Species 1, P. scoparia A. Gray, loc. cit.— 
Watp., Ann., iv. 481. 
8 Comm. Plant. Afric. Austr. 114 (nec 
Mencu).—Enp.., Gen., a. 6565.—B. H., Gen., 
496, u. 99. 
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