300 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
flowered, sometimes 1-lateral, cymes (?); bracts and bractlets small 
persistent (West Indies, Nicaragua’). 
137, Pictetia DC.2—Calyx gamosepalous; lobes 5, unequal, 2 
superior short obtuse ; 8 inferior longer acute. Petals shortly un- 
guiculate; standard suborbicular ; wings oblique; keel a little 
shorter than wings, obtuse. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1); an- 
thers uniform. Germen stipitate ; ovules » ; style slender glabrous ; 
apex minutely capitate, stigmatiferous. Legume stipitate, oblong 
or broadly linear, compressed, scarcely jointed or separating into 
2-« oblong coriaceous striated segments. Seeds oblong compressed 
exarillate-—Shrubs, glabrous ; leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets a, mu- 
cronate or sharp at apex, exstipellate; petiole sometimes short; 
stipules usually spinescent; flowers’ axillary, solitary or oftener in 
few-flowered slender racemes; bracts and bractlets caducous‘ (Zropt- 
cal America, West Indies*). 
138. Amicia H. B. K.°—Calyx gamosepalous; lobes 5, very 
unequal; 2 superior very large obtuse, 2 lateral minute, lowest 
minute or longer than lateral lobes. Petals unguiculate ; standard 
broadly suborbicular or obovate-oblong, emarginate erect patent; 
wings oblique, usually shortened ; keel curved obtuse, much longer 
than wings, usually about equal to standard. Stamens 10; either 
l-adelphous, filaments connate into a sheath cleft above ; or 2-adel- 
phous (9-1); anthers uniform.’ Germen subsessile; ovules o, 
usually few; style slender arched; apex minutely stigmatiferous. 
Legume linear arched compressed; segments nearly square. Seeds 
reniform exarillate.—Shrubs or undershrubs, glabrous or glandular ; 
branches flexuous; leaves paripinnate pauci- (usually 2-) jugate ; 
obovate or obcordate; stipules large foliaceous, often connate at 
1 Prum., ed. Burm., t. 249, fig. 1 (Ptero- 
carpus).—SLOANE, Jam., ii. 3 (Aspalathus).— 
Sprene., WV. Entd., ii. 159 (Amerimnum).— 
Bryta., in Girst. Leg. Centroamer., 13.—Bot. 
Mag., t. 4670.—Watr., Rep., i. 725; Ann., iv. 
533. 
2%n Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 1, ix. 93; Mém. 
Légum., t. 47; Prodr., ii, 314.—ENDL., Gen,, u. 
6591.—B. H., Gen., 514, u. 154. 
% Yellow. 
4 A genus on the one hand closely allied to 
Ormocarpum, while, on the other, it ought to be 
compared with Corynella and Sabinea (whose 
legumes are not jointed) and carefully studied. 
5 Species about 6. Jacq., Hort. Schenbr., t. 
237 (Aischynomene). — Vann, Symb., t. 69 
(Robinia).— GriseB., Cat. Plant. Cub., 73. 
8 Nov. Gen, et Spec., vi. 511, t. 600.—DC., 
Prodr., ii. 315.—Enpu., Gen., n. 6594.—B, H., 
Gen., 514, u, 153. 
7 In A. zygomeris (DC., loe. cit.) the 5 pos- 
terior stamens are much smaller than the others, 
and the 2 anterior are very large. 
