LEGUMINOS-PAPILIONACEZ. 303 
subulate ; bractlets 2, narrowed, inserted at top of pedicel below 
flower (Brazii’). 
143, Adesmia DC.*—Receptacle concave short, lined by a rather 
prominent disk. Calyx gamosepalous; lobes 5, nearly equal or 
lowest and 2 superior a little longer. Petals unguiculate, usually 
shortly: standard orbicular or obovate; wings obliquely oblong or 
obovate, sometimes short; keel obtuse, acute, or beaked, shorter than 
standard. Stamens 10, free; 2 superior filaments sometimes adnate 
to claw of standard, dilated at base; anthers uniform. Germen 
sessile; ovules 2— 0 ; style slender ; apex truncate or minutely capi- 
tate, stigmatiferous. Legume o-jointed ;* superior suture usually 
straight ; inferior deeply sinuate; segment flat or convex, glandular 
or pilose, or oftener covered with long bristles or glandular hairs, 
separating from each other altogether or on side of superior margin, 
indehiscent or 2-valved. Seeds subglobose or orbicular.—Herbs or 
undershrubs, unarmed ; or oftener small shrubs, sometimes armed 
with spinescent petioles, often glandular dotted balsamic ; leaves pari- 
or imparipinnate; leaflets 3-0, entire or dentate, exstipellate ; 
stipules of variable form ; flowers’ in terminal racemes ; bracts small 
1-flowered (Subtropical South America’). 
144? Bremontiera DC.'—Calyx short subcampanulate ; 2 posterior 
teeth a little shorter and broader than anterior. Petals much ex- 
serted, unguiculate ; standard obovate ; wings obliquely oblong; keel 
about equal in length to wings, slightly curved, rather obtuse at 
apex.. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1) ; anthers uniform; connective 
subglandular at back, coloured, apiculate. Germen subsessile; 
ovules ©; style slender glabrous inflexed; apex capitate stigma- 
tiferous. Legume long cylindrical arched moniliform, septate with- 
in and contracted outside between seeds; segments o, truncate a 
1 Species 1. 
cit. 
2 In Ann. Se. Nat., sér. 1, iv. 94; Wem. 
Légum., t. 48-50; Prodr., ii. 318.—EnNDL., Gen., 
n. 6603.—B. H., Gen., 517, n. 164, 
3 Finally folded, included in Streptodesmia 
A. Gray (Bot. Amer. Expl. Exped., i. 427, t. 
47), which is a species of Adesmia. 
4 Yellow or red-striped. 
5 Species about 70. Jacg., Ze. Rar., t. 568 
(Hedysarum).—Presz., Symbol., t. 61-63,— 
C. Weddellianum H. By., loc. 
Hoox., Bot. Misc., t. 104, 105.—Hoox. & ARN., 
Beech. Voy., Bot. t. 9—BEntTa., in Mart. Fl. 
Bras., Papil., 53, t. 11.—Cz., in C. Gay Fl. 
Chil., ii. 151, t. 18.—Swaet, Brit. Fl. Gard., 
ser. 2, t. 222, 230, 322.—Puitirr., Fl. Atacam., 
15.— Bot, Reg., t. 1720.—Watp., Rep., i. 728; 
ii. 889; Ann, i. 246 ; ii. 407; iv. 534. 
6 In Ann. Sc. Nat., sér. 1, iv. 93; Mém. 
Légum., 353 ; Prodr., ii. 8353.— ENDL, Glen., n. 
6627.—B. H., Gen. 464.—-H. Bw., in Adan- 
_ sonia, ix. 234. 
