LEGUMINOS#-PAPILIONACEZ. 299 
linear compressed, rather thick, longitudinally striated in furrows, 
somewhat warty or glandular-muricated ; segments oblong, unevenly 
narrowed on both sides, hard or coriaceous. Seeds oblong com- 
pressed descending subanatropous ; radicle scarcely or very shortly 
inflexed.—Shrubs often tall, glutinous; leaflets either o, small, or 
1, large articulated; stipules striated ; flowers’ few, in short axillary 
racemes; bracts and bractlets persistent striated (Zropical Asia 
and Africa, Mexico’), 
135. Isodesmia Garpn.'—Flowers of dschynomene ; keel obtuse, 
about equal to wings. Stamens connate into a sheath cleft above 
or on both sides ; lowest stamen sometimes free. FPistil (of Mschy- 
nomene) cc-ovulate. Legume sessile linear straight flattened; seg- 
ments coriaceous square, longitudinally net-veined.—Undershrubs, 
climbing or twining; leaves imparipinnate; leaflets o, exstipellate ; 
stipules persistent, not produced at base; flowers* few, in axillary 
racemes ; bracts stipuliform persistent; bractlets persistent’ (Brazil’). 
136. Brya P. Br.'—Calyx gamosepalous; lobes 5, narrowed, 
nearly equal or lowest shorter than others. Petals unguiculate ; 
standard oblong-obovate or suborbicular; wings falcate oblong ; 
keel curved obtuse. Stamens 10, l-adelphous; filamental sheath 
longitudinally cleft above; anthers uniform. Germen sessile or 
stipitate; ovules 2; style slender curved; apex minutely capitate 
stigmatiferous. Legume sessile or stipitate; segments 1, 2, broad 
flat membranous indehiscent; one often small sterile; superior 
suture nearly straight; inferior arched. Seeds reniform compressed 
exarillate-—Small trees or shrubs; leaves imparipinnate or 3-folio- 
late ; petiole usually nearly absent; 2 lateral leaflets of 3-foliolate 
leaf small minute or 0; stipules either spinescent persistent or 
small narrowed deciduous ; flowers’ in axillary or subterminal, few- 
1 Yellow, white, red, or purple-striped. 
2 Species about 4, Wiaut & ARn., Prodr., i. 
217.—Wiaeut, Icon. t. 297.—A. Ricu., Voy. 
Astrol., t. 32.—Baxur, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., 
ii. 142.—Watp., Ann., i. 246. 
3G. Don, Gen. Syst., ii. 279.— ? A. GRay, 
Pl. Thurber., 313 (Daubentonia ?).— WAtp., 
Ann., iv. 493. 
4In Hook. Journ., ii. 389.—B. H., Gen., 514, 
n. 156. 
5 Yellow, rather large. 
§ A genus closely allied to Aschynomene, but 
differing by the legume, which is analogous at 
once to that of Ormocarpum and to that of 
Chetocalysx (the latter having almost the same 
habit). 
? Species 2. Brnru., in Mart. Fl. Bras., 
Papil., 71, t. 16.—Watr., Rep., v. 523. 
8 Jam., 299, t. 31, fig, 2.—DC., Prodr., ii. 
421.—EyDL., Gen., n. 6592.—B. H., Gen., 514, 
n. 155.—Aldina Apans., Fam. des Pl., ii. 328 
(nec ENDL.). 
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