296 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
corrugated, indehiscent or dehiscent at inferior suture.—Herbs, 
undershrubs, or shrubs, not twining; leaves pari- or impari- 
pinnate ; leaflets o, exstipellate ; stipules setaceous or lanceolate ; 
either produced below insertion and peltately affixed below middle 
(Zueschynomene’) or not produced at base, striated, usually persistent 
(Ochopodiu?) ; flowers’ in axillary or more rarely terminal, simple 
or branched racemes ; bracts usually stipuliform ; bractlets inserted 
below flower, appressed to receptacle (44 hotter regions’). 
129. Herminiera Guitu. & Perr.'—Receptacle cupuliform, lined 
by a disk. Calyx 2-labiate almost to base; upper lip nearly 
entire, rather obtuse; lower nearly entire or rather acute and mi- 
nutely unequally 3-toothed at apex. Standard subsessile, broadly 
orbicular; wings shortly unguiculate, obliquely obovate ; keel about 
equal to wings, obtuse, petals free. Stamens 10, l-adelphous ; sheath 
longitudinally cleft below, either not or only finally cleft above; 
anthers uniform. Germen subsessile, »-ovulate; style slender; 
apex minute stigmatiferous. Legume broadly linear, plano-com- 
pressed, afterwards revolutely twisted into a ring or spiral ; segments 
oo, 1-seeded square, finally separating. Seeds reniform exarillate.— 
A tall shrub, shaggy with bristles ; leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets oc 
exstipellate ; stipules membranous; flowers’ few, in short axillary 
racemés ; bracts and bractlets membranous, very caducous (Zropical 
Africa’). 
130. Seoemmeringia Marr.'—Flowers of dschynomene; calyx 
2-labiate. Petals after anthesis persistent scarious net-veined. 
Staminal sheath cleft above or on both sides. Legume stipitate, 
shorter than standard. Other characters of Zschynomene.—An 
annual diffuse herb; leaves subimparipinnate, leaflets a, often 
denticulate, exstipellate ; stipules striated, produced below insertion ; 
1 Voe,, in Linnea, xii. 81—Macromiscus 
Tonrcz., in Bull. Mose. (1846), ii. 507. 
2 Voa., Ice. cit.—Patagonium Mey. (E.), 
Comm, Pl, Afric. Austr., 122 (nec SCHRANCK). 
3 Yellow, often purple-striped. 
4 Species about 30. Wuiaut, Icon., t. 299, 
405,—Wieut & ARN,, Prodr., i. 216.—Torr. & 
Gr. Fl. N, Amer,, i. 355,-—Jacquem., Voy., 
Bot., t. 48.—BEnTH., in Mart, Fl. Bras., Papil., 
57,t. 12; Fl. Austral, ii. 226.—Hany. & Sonp., 
Fl. Cap., ii. 225.—BakxeEr, in Oliv, Fl. Trop. 
Afr., ii, 145.—Watp., Rep., i. 782; ii. 889; v. 
521; Amn., ii. 412; iv. 585. 
5 Fl. Seneg. Tent., i, 201, t. 51.— Env1., 
Gen., n. 6552,—B, H., Gen. 515, n. 158,— 
4idemone Kortsou., in ster. Mon. (1858), t. 1. 
6 Orange-coloured, large. 
7 Species 1. H. elaphrorylon Guttu. & Pern, 
loc. cit.— Watp., Rep., v, 516.— 2demone 
mirabilis Korscu., loe. cit. 
8 Dissert. de Semmeringia (1828), icon.— 
Env. Gen., n. 6606.—BeEntTH., in Mart. Fl, 
Bras., Papil., 70; Gen., 516, n. 160, 
