274 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
stipules either setaceous or broad herbaceous leaf-like, suborbicular 
or subreniform ; flowers' sometimes axillary in twos or threes, some- 
times in a terminal raceme, rarely appearing before leaves and 
arranged in an elongated raceme springing from wood and bearing 
thin few-flowered fascicles ; bracts and bractlets of variable form, often 
caducous (Central America, Mexico’). 
87. Harpalyce.—Mog. & Sussz.*—Calyx gamosepalous, much 
elongated, usually arched in bud: lobes 5, very unequal, sometimes 
free almost at base, either all connate into 2 nearly entire lips, or 
2 lateral lobes smaller innermost; exstivation imbricated, standard 
large, shortly unguiculate, bare within; wings falcate-oblong, 
usually shorter; keel elongated, recurved or a little twisted, obtuse. 
Stamens 10, 1-adelphous, connate into a sheath cleft above; anthers, 
5 linear, 5 alternate much shorter. Germen sessile o-ovulate, style 
glabrous, usually suddenly inflexed or subgeniculate below apex ; 
summit scarcely capitate, stigmatiferous. Legume oblong or broadly 
linear septate‘ between seeds or l-seeded short. Seeds oblong or 
ovate ; funicle much dilated at hilum into an aril; radicle straight, 
very short. Erect shrubs; branches often herbaceous and tomen- 
tose; leaves imparipinnate; stipels rudimentary; stipules small 
caducous; flowers’ in short terminal, simple or branched, racemes ; 
bracts and bractlets linear deciduous (Brazil, Mexico, Cuba’). 
88. Lamprolobium Benrs.’—“Calyx deeply cleft; 2 superior 
lobes connate for a considerable height. Standard orbicular, without 
appendages; wings obliquely oblong free; keel curved obtuse. 
Stamens all connate into a cleft sheath; anthers uniform. Germen 
shortly stipitate, oo-ovulate ; style curved beardless filiform ; stigma 
terminal. Legume stipitate oblong, linear plano-compressed. Sep- 
tate within between seeds, 2-valved; valves coriaceous. Seeds 
oblong compressed strophiolate; radicle short straight—A shrub ; 
leaves imparipinnate exstipellate ; stipules minute; flowers® small 
1 Carnation, purplish, or violet. 4 Septa finally easily separable from endocarp. 
2PreEst, Symb., t.67.—Monic., Pl. N. Amér., 5 Scarlet or purple. 
t. 10.—Watp., Rep., i. 678; ii. 858; Ann, i. 6 Bentu., in Hook. Journ., iii. t. 5, 6; in 
231.—H. By., in Adansonia, ix, 240. Mart. Fl. Bras. Papil., 50, t. 10.—GRiszs., 
3 Ex DC., Mém. Légum., 496; Prodr., ii. Cat. Pl. Cub. 71. 
523.—EnDL., Gen., n. 6577.—B. H., Gen. 494, 7 Fl. Austral., ii, 202.—B. H. Gen., 495, n. 
n. 92 (nec Don). 94. 8 “Yellow.” 
