LEGUMINOS4-PAPILIONACEA. 281 
folious spikes or racemes ; pedicels short ; bracts membranous, rather 
broad, concave above, appressed to legume, sprinkled with glandular 
dots, subscarious or setaceous ; bractlets 0 (Worth, Central, and Andine 
America, Chili’). 
99. Marina? Lirsm.*—“ Lobes of calyx nearly equal, dentate 
ciliate. Standard long-unguiculate, obovate rotundate; wings fal- 
cate obovate ; keel cucullate, shorter than standard or wings. Sta- 
mens 10, all connate into a sheath cleft above; anthers uniform. 
Germen sessile l-ovulate; style filiform glabrous; stigma simple. 
Legume included by calyx, membranous indehiscent. Seed sub- 
reniform.—A herb, tender annual diffuse, sprinkled with violet 
dots ; leaves imparipinnate; leaflets o, very small, quite entire, 
minutely stipellate ; stipules broad scarious dentate; racemes* extra- 
axillary or leaf-opposed ; peduncle filiform ; bracts minute scarious” 
(Mezico’). 
100. Petalostemon Muicux.'—Calyx gamosepalous and rather 
inflated at base; teeth or lobes nearly equal, more rarely posterior 
one larger than others. Petals very dissimilar; standard broadly 
cordate or reniform, concave or cupulate; claw thin slender; wings 
somewhat similar to and often shorter than petals of keel, very 
oblique, oblong; claw thin, nearly free or adnate to base of andro- 
ceum. Stamens 5, oppositipetalous ; filaments scarcely perigynous, 
connate at base into a sheath cleft above; anthers uniform, often 
surmounted by a dorsal gland. Germen sessile or scarcely stipitate ; 
style subulate, much inflexed in estivation ; stigma terminal, usually 
minute and not thickened. Ovules 2, amphitropous, collaterally 
descending ; micropyle extrorse superior. Fruit small, included by 
calyx, membranous, usually indehiscent, l-seeded. Seed reniform 
1 Species about 80.—Cav., Icon, t. 86, 87, 
201, 240, 271, 325, 394.—Jacg., Ic. Rar, t. 
563.—VeEnt., Jard. Cels., t. 40.—W., Hort, 
Berol., t. 89.—Micux., Fl. Bor.-Amer., ii. 56, 
t. 88.—K., Mimos., t. 47-49.—H. B. K., Nov. 
Gen. et Spec., vi. 480.—Hook., Exot. Fl, t. 43.— 
Torr. & Gr., Fl. N. Amer., ii. 307.—BENTH., 
Sulph., t. 10.—Cz., in C, Gay Fl, Chil. ii. 8.— 
Mortic., Pl. Nouv. Amér., t. 83-8, 45.—A. GRAY, 
in Proce. Amer. Acad., vii, 335, 397.—WaLP., 
Rep., i. 652; ii. 855; v. 513: Ann,, i. 228; ii. 
359; iv, 482. 
2 In Vidensk. Meddel. (1853), 103.—B. H., 
Gen., 492, u. 85. 
3 « Flowers few, small, violet.” 
4 Species 1. I. gracilis Lizem., lve. cit.— 
Watp., Ann., iv. 478. 
5 Fl. Bor.-Amer., ii. 48, t. 37.—DC., Prodr., 
ii. 243.—Enpu., Gen., n. 6522.—B. H., Gen., 
493, n. 89.— Kuhnistera Lamx., Dict., iii. 370.— 
Cylipogon Ra¥in., in Journ. Phys., \xxxix. 97 
(part. excl. Dalee spec, plur., v. supra, p. 280, 
not. 4).—Gatesia BERTOL., Mise. Bot., vii. 30, 
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