258 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
articulated at base; stipules minute persistent; flower shortly 
pedicellate, axillary in pairs ; bracts minute (Southern Africa’). 
57. Tephrosia Prrs.>—Receptacle lined by a more or less promi- 
nent glandular disk. Calyx gamosepalous; teeth or lobes nearly 
equal, or more rarely inferior tooth or lobe longer ; 2 superior connate 
for a considerable distance. Petals unguiculate; standard sub- 
orbicular, usually silky or villous outside; wings oblique, more or 
less adhering to keel; keel curved. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous ; 9 
lower connate into a tube cleft above; vexillary stamen more or 
less connate below with remainder, finally almost always free ; 
each filament often a little gibbous outside above base; anthers 
uniform. Germen sessile 2-0 -ovulate; style often flattened or 
dilated, subtubular, rigid “or rather horny,” inflexed or curved; 
stigma terminal, truncate or oftener penicillate. Legume linear, 
more rarely ovate, compressed, continuous or imperfectly septate 
between seeds within, 2-valved. Seeds 1~«, a little compressed, 
funicle dilated at base or towards apex into a small aril of variable 
form.—Shrubs or oftener undershrubs or herbs ; leaves imparipinnate, 
more rarely 1—3-foliolate; leaflets usually marked by parallel veins 
oblique to midrib, often silky below ; stipules setaceous or similar to 
leaves; inflorescence racemose; racemes terminal or leaf-opposed 
or in higher axils, often bearing leaves at base; flowers? solitary 
or often in fascicles of 2-6 in axils of each bract ; bractlets 0‘ (4// 
Tropical and Sub-tropical regions’). 
1 Species 1. 8S. diflora E, Mey, loc. cit.— 
Harv., Thes. Cap., t. 78.—Hary. & Sonv., Fl. 
Cap., ii, 224.—[ Baker (in Oliv., Fl. Trop. Afr, 
ii. 103) gives another species, 8. angolensis, 
which has “ digitately trifuliolate leaves.’”’] 
2 Syn., ii. 328.—DC., Prodr., ii. 249 (part.).— 
ENDL., Gen., n. 6539 (part.)—B. H., Gen., 496, 
n. 100.—Brissonia Nrcx., Elem. n. 1348.— 
Reineria Mawcn, Suppl., 44.—Xyphocarpus 
Presn, Symb., i. 13, t. 7.—Kiesera REINW., 
Syll. Pl. Ratish., ii. 11.—Requienia DC., in 
Ann. Sc. Nat., sér. 1, iv. 91; Mém. Légum., 224, 
t. 87, 38; Prodr., ii. 168.—Enpu., Gen. n. 
6471.—Apodynomene E. Muy., Comm. Pl. Afr. 
Austr., 111.—Pogonostigma Botss., Diagn. Pl. 
Or., ii. 89.—Catacline Epaew., in Journ. Asiat. 
Soc. Beng., xvi. 1214.— Balboa LrspM., in 
Vidensk. Medd. (1856) 106.—Macronyx Daiz., 
in Hook. Journ. ii. 35. 
3 White, red, or purple. 
4 Bentuam divides this genus, according to 
the characters of inflorescence and gynzceum, 
into 3 sections:—“1. Brissonia. Racemes axil- 
lary and terminal; style usually longitudinally 
bearded above, subterete or narrowly flattened.—. 
2. Reineria. Racemes terminal or opposite to 
leaves; style more or less dilated, bare or bearded ; 
stigmausually penicillate.—3, Requienia. Flowers 
axillary fascicled; leaves 1-foliolate ; ovules 1, 2. 
5 Species about 80. H.H.K., Nov. Gen, et 
Spec., vi. t.577.— Vau., Pl. Asiat. Rar., t. 60.— 
Wicut, Icon, t. 370-372, 388.—Brntu., in 
Mart, Fl. Bras., Papil., 45; Fl. Austral, ii. 
2038.—Jaus. & Spacu, Ill. Pl. Orient., t. 475—- 
478 (Pogonostigma).—Guitu. & PERr., Fl. Sen, 
Tent., i. 168 (Requienia), t. 49.—M1Q,, Stirp. 
Surin., t.6; Fl. Ind. Bat., i. p. i, 290.— Hany. 
& Sonp., £2. Cap., ii. 203, 230 (Requienia)— 
Baker, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr, ii. 104,—SEEm., 
Herald, t. 19.—Watp., Rep., i. 673; ii. 857; 
v. 515 ; Ann.,, ii. 364; iv. 489, 
