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85. Cyamopsis DC.'—Flowers almost those of Indigofera ; stamens 
10, 1-adelphous; filaments connate into a closed tube; anthers 
uniform apiculate. Germen sessile «-ovulate ; style curved at apex ; 
apex capitate stigmatiferous. Legume linear sub-4-gonous com- 
pressed, rather thick, acuminate, septate within between seeds, 2- 
valved. Seeds square compressed exarillate; embryo fleshy ; radicle. 
inflexed clubbed.—Hrect herbs, covered with hairs attached by middle ; 
leaves imparipinnate; leaflets 3-0, opposite exstipellate; stipules 
setaceous small; flowers’ in axillary racemes, shortly pedicellate, 
each solitary at axil of a bract; bractlets 0 (Zropical Africa, Hast 
Indies’). 
86. Brongniartia H. B. K.'—Receptacle shortly obconical or 
turbinate, lined by a disk produced round stalk of gynzceum into a 
ring or short, usually unequally crenate, tube; mouth of receptacle 
slightly oblique. Calyx gamosepalous to a considerable height ; lobes 
disparate, nearly equal in length; 2 superior usually more obtuse, 
connate to a greater height; zstivation slightly imbricated. Petals 
nearly equal in length, very dissimilar; standard ovate or broadly 
orbicular, bare within, finally reflexed ; claw short, somewhat arti- 
culated at base ; wings unevenly oblong, falcate free; keel curved or 
cymbiform, obtuse. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1); sheath a little 
dilated at base; anthers uniform or 5 alternate a little shorter, ver- 
satile. Germen subsessile or stipitate ; ovules «; style curved subu- 
late glabrous ; apex minute or capitellate, stigmatiferous. Legume 
oblong or broadly linear, plano-compressed, continuous or slightly 
stuffed within; placentary suture furnished with a very narrow or 
somewhat broader (Peraltea*) longitudinal wing ; valves 2, coriaceous, 
finally rather twisted. Seeds ovate compressed ; hilum dilated round 
insertion of funicle into a fleshy aril; embryo fleshy ; radicle short, 
nearly or quite straight ; cotyledons almost ensheathing radicle.— 
Shrubs, silky-villous or glabrous ; leaves imparipinnate exstipellate ; 
1 Mém, Légum., 230; Prodr., ti. 216.—EnNDL., 
Gen., n. 6647.—B. H., Gen., 493, n. 90.— Cordea 
Sprene., Syst., n. 2847 (ex ENDL.). 
2 Small, “ purplish.” 
_ 8 Species 2. Cav., Icon., t. 59 (Lupinus).— 
Lugrrr., Stirp., t. 78 (Dolichos)—Wiaut & 
Agn., Prodr., i. 196.— Guitt. & PERR., 
Fl. Seneg. Tent., i. 171, t. 45.—Baxer, in 
VOL. II. 
Oli. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 65.—Watp., Rep., i. 
759. 
4 Nov. Gen. et Spec., vi. 465, t. 587, 588.— 
DC., Prodr., ii. 475.—EnDu., Gen., n. 6541.— 
B. H., Gen. 495, n. 93. 
5 HB. K,, loc. cit., 469, t. 589.—DC., Prodr., 
ii. 474,—ENDL, Gen. n. 6542.—Megastegia 
Don (G.), Gen. Syst., ii. 468. 
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