LEGUMINOS#-PAPILIONACEZ. 297 
flowers' axillary pedunculate, solitary or in pairs; bracts small 
stipuliform ; bractlets persistent striated’ (Brazil). 
131. Geissaspis Wicut & Arn.*—Calyx membranous imbri- 
cated, afterwards deeply cleft into 2 lips; upper lip entire or very 
shortly 2-toothed ; lower unequally 3-toothed. Petals unguiculate ; 
standard broadly suborbicular ; wings oblique; keel curved obtuse, 
about equal to wings, a little shorter than standard. Stamens 10, 
finally 2-adelphous; sheath longitudinally cleft on both sides; 
anthers uniform. Germen stipitate; ovules 2, descending; style 
curved; apex minutely capitate, stigmatiferous. Legume mem- 
branous, 2- or oftener 1-seeded (lower ovule abortive and segment 
scarcely thickened); superior suture straight or arched ; inferior 
sinuate; segments reticulated. Seeds orbicular or subreniform, 
exarillate.—Herbs, slender, diffuse ; leaves paripinnate ; leaflets few 
exstipellate, usually small; stipules broad membranous, produced 
below insertion; flowers‘ in crowded long-pedunculate axillary 
racemes ; bracts large, obliquely orbicular or reniform, membranous 
or subscarious, veined, much imbricated, distichous (?), usually 
covering flowers and fruits, entire or ciliate; pedicels oblique, 
appressed to bracts ; bractlets 0 (Hast Indies, western tropical Africa’). 
132. Smithia Arr.—Calyx gamosepalous, deeply cleft into 2 lips ; 
upper lip entire or emarginate; lower nearly entire, 3-toothed or 
3-fid. Corolla almost that of Gessaswis. Stamens 10, 1-adelphous ; 
filamental sheath finally cleft on both sides; anthers uniform. 
Germen stipitate or subsessile ; ovules  ; style slender curved ; apex 
minutely capitate or truncate, stigmatiferous. Legume contained by 
sacciform persistent or accrescent, scarious unevenly folded and 
retracted calyx, apiculated by usually weak style; segments 2-0, 
much compressed, oblique or nearly horizontal, connected by much 
narrowed exocarp; endocarp hardened or scarious round each seed. 
1 “Yellow.” 
? This genus ought perhaps to be considered 
a section of Aschynomene with persistent pe- 
tals. 
3 Prodr., 217.—ENDL., Gen., u. 6597.—B. H., 
Gen., 516, 1002, n. 162. 
4 Yellow or purplish. 
5 Species 4. WEBB, Spicil. Gorgon., in Hook. 
Niger, 123 (Semineringia).—Baxenr, in Oliv. 
Fl. Trop. Afr, ii, 154,—Ware., Rep. i. 726; 
Ann., ii. 407, 412. 
6 Hort. Kew., ed. 1, iii. 496, t. 13.—Lamx., 
Dict., vii. 222; Suppl., v. 162; JUL, t. 627.— 
Desvx., Journ. Bot., i. 121, t. 4.—DC., Prodr., 
ii, 8323.— ENDL. Gen, n. 6608.—B. H., Gez., 
516, n. 161.—Kotschya EnDL., Stirp. Nov, Mus. 
Vindob. Dec., 6; Icon., t. 125; Gen., n. 6607.— 
Patagnana GMEL.(ex Porr., Dict., Suppl., loc.cit.). 
