264 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
68. Poitexa Vunt.'—Calyx gamosepalous subtruncate; teeth very 
short, standard obovate erect ; wings oblong, longer than standard ; 
keel longer than wings, acute subfalcate ; petals free at apex. 
Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1); anthers uniform. Germen stipi- 
tate o-ovulate; style curved glabrous subulate ; apex minute stig- 
matiferous. Legume linear plano-compressed 2-valved. Seeds 
orbiculate.—Shrubs ; leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets «0, membranous 
entire exstipellate; stipules setaceous ; flowers? in axillary racemes ; 
bracts small; bractlets 0 (West Indies’). 
69? Vilmorinia DC.‘—“Calyx ebracteolate cylindrical, obtusely 
4-toothed, sub-2-labiate. Corolla papilionaceous; petals oblong ; 
wings shorter than keel. Stamens 2-adelphous. Style glabrous 
subulate acute. Legume pedicellate lanceolate, tapering at base, 
compressed, filiform at apex. Seeds 12-16.—A shrub; leaves im- 
paripinnate ; stipules rather broad at base, long subulate ; flowers’ in 
axillary racemes” (Hispaniola). 
70? Lennea Ki.’—Flowers small, almost those of Rodina ; calyx 
teeth short; 2 superior connate. Standard suborbicular, naked on 
inner surface, shortly unguiculate; wings free; keel curved obtuse. 
Stamens 10; vexillary stamen free only close to base, afterwards con- 
nate with remainder into a closed tube ; anthers uniform. Germen 
shortly stipitate ; ovules  ; style slender, at apex much curved subin- 
volute, at back slightly bearded longitudinally; summit capitate 
stigmatiferous. Legume linear compressed torulose, septate within 
between seeds, 2-valved. Seeds lenticular compressed.*—Trees or 
shrubs, glabrous; leaves subimparipinnate ; leaflets stipellate alter- 
nate, quite entire ; stipules small; flowers’ racemose; racemes axillary 
or fascicled at old nodes, sometimes nutant (Central America,” 
Mexico"). 
1 Choiz de Pl., t. 36.—Turp., in Dict. Se. 
Nat., Atl., t. 251.—DC., Prodr., ii. 263.—EnDL., 
Gen., n. 6547.—B. H., Gen., 500, n. 109. 
‘2 Pink or purple. 
5 “ Species 2.” 
4 Prodr., ii. 239.—ENDL., Gen. n. 6655.— 
B. H., Gen., 499, n. 108. 
5 « Purple.” 
6 Species 1. V. multiflora DC., loc. cit.— 
Clitoria multiflora Sw., Fl. Ind. Oce., ii. 1253 
(a very doubtful genus). 
7 Ap. Linx., Ku, & Orzo, Icon, Plant., ti. 65, 
t. 26.—B. H., Gen., 500, a. 110, 
8 Kuwzz, in Linnea, xvi. 320. 
® Pink or greenish (recalling the leaves and 
flowers of some species of. Indigofera). 
10 Waxp., Rep., i. 680. 
N Srrm., Herald, 107, 
