LEGUMINOS 4-PAPILIONACEZ. 301 
base, deciduous; flowers’ in few-flowered axillary racemes sometimes 
bearing leaves at base ; bracts and bractlets broad foliaceous. (dudine 
America from Mexico to Bolivia’). 
139. Poiretia Vunt.’—Calyx subcampanulate ; teeth 5, short un- 
equal. Petals shortly unguiculate; standard broadly orbicular ; 
wings falcate-oblong ; keel much curved, oblong, beaked or more 
rarely obtuse. Stamens 10, l-adelphous; filaments connate into a 
closed sheath; anthers uniform. Germen sessile; ovules ~; 
style slender curved; apex minutely capitate, stigmatiferous. 
Legume linear; segments flat rectangular, membranous or co- 
riaceous, reticulated or sprinkled with warty glands.——Herbs or 
undershrubs, nearly erect or twining, covered with balsamic glands ; 
leaves pinnate, 4- or more rarely 3-foliolate ; stipules sessile or decur- 
rent at base; flowers* in axillary or terminal branched racemes ; 
bracts lanceolate or subulate ; bractlets small, inserted on pedicel. 
(South America, Mexico’). 
140. Cheetocalyx DC.'—Calyx gamosepalous to a considerable 
height, capitate glandular outside ; lobes 5, nearly equal or 2 su- 
perior approximated, often linear subulate. Standard suborbicular 
or obovate, emarginate; wings about equal to standard, oblong ; 
keel obtuse, scarcely shorter than standard. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous 
(9-1); anthers uniform. Germen shortly stipitate, oo-ovulate ; style 
filiform curved; apex stigmatiferous. Legume linear, subterete or 
plano-compressed, scarcely constricted between seeds; segments 
1-seeded, linear-oblong or more rarely square (Planarium’), longitu- 
dinally ribbed or striated. Seeds oblong or reniform, exarillate.— 
Twining herbs; leaves alternate imparipinnate; stipules linear or 
lanceolate; flowers’ racemose few, either axillary or terminal on a 
slender elongated twig’ (Zropical and sub-tropical America”). 
1 Rather large, yellow. 
2 Bot. Mag., t. 4008. 
3 Choixa de Plant., t. 42 (nec GMEL., nec 
SmrrH, nec Cav.).—Dzsvx., Journ. Bot., i.122, 
t. 5.—DC., Prodr., ii. 315.—Enpu., Gen., n. 
6595.—B. H., Gen, 518, n. 152.— Turpinia 
Pers., Syn., ii, 314. 
4 Yellow. 
5 Species 5. H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec., vi. 
510.—Voe., in Linnea, xii. 51.—Benta., in 
Mart. Fl. Bras., Papil., 78, t. 20.—WatpP., 
Rep., i. 725; v. 520. 
6 Mém, Légum., 262; Prodr., ii. 248.—ENDL., 
Gen., n. 6537.—B. H., Gen., 513, n. 150.— 
Banninghausenia Sprene., Syst., iii. 245 (nec 
ReIcuB.).— Rhadinocarpus Voe., in Linnea, 
xii. 108.—Ewnp1., Gen., n. 6628. 
7 Desvx., in Ann. Se. Nat., sér. 1, ix. 416. 
® Yellow. 
9 A genus entirely similar in habit to Jso- 
desmia, but differing by the fruit and androceum. 
10 Species 8 or 9. LinpL., in Bot. Reg., t. 
799 (Glycine).—BrntH., in Mart. Fl. Bras., 
Papil., 74, t. 18; Sulph., 81, t. 80 (Planarium).— 
