LEGUMINOS#-PAPILIONACEZ. 315 
anthers uniform. Germen sessile l-ovulate; style filiform ; stigma 
terminal capitate. Legume ovoid 1-seeded 2-valved, included by 
calyx. Seed estrophiolate——Perennial herbs or undershrubs, diffuse ; 
leaves pinnate 3-foliolate ; leaflets small stipellate; stipules free ; 
flowers small, crowded in short dense subcapitate terminal racemes ; 
bracts broad, imbricated, deciduous before anthesis” (Hast Indies, 
Madagascar’). 
165. Cranocarpus Bentu.2—Flowers almost those of Desmodium ; 
calyx oblique; 2 superior teeth broader. Petals narrowed for some 
distance at base. Stamens 10, l-adelphous; sheath not cleft; 
anthers uniform. Germen subsessile ; ovule 1; style slender curved ; 
apex minute stigmatiferous. Legume stipitate, much compressed, 
subgaleate ; superior margin impressed at middle, much intruded at 
position of seed ; inferior much arched ; faces convex; seed reniform 
exarillate—A shrub; leaves 1—3-foliolate; terminal leaflet large 
penniveined 2-stipellate ; 3 lateral small or 0 ; stipules free setaceous 
acuminate; flowers’ in axillary racemes; pedicels solitary 2-brac- 
teolate ; bracts small (Brazi/). 
166. Lespedeza Micux.'—Receptacle very shortly cupuliform. 
Calyx lobes or teeth 5, nearly equal or 2 superior connate to a rather 
greater height. Petals unguiculate; standard oblong or obovate ; 
wings oblong falcate, free or adhering to keel; keel curved, obtuse 
or beaked. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1); more rarely vexillary 
stamen connate with remainder; anthers uniform. Germen sessile 
or stipitate; ovule 1; style slender curved; apex minute stigma- 
tiferous. Legume subspherical or ovate, rather compressed, reti- 
culated indehiscent. Seed of same form as pericarp, exarillate.— 
Herbs, undershrubs, or shrubs, rarely glabrous; leaves pinnate 3- 
foliolate or 1-foliolate, exstipellate; stipules 2, small, often very 
caducous; flowers’ in racemes or fascicles; inflorescences axillary 
or more rarely branched terminal; bracts small 1-flowered ; bract- 
1 Species 1 or 2, Wiout, Icon. t. 1056  Prodr., ii. 348.—Enopt., Gen., n. 6623.—B. Hy 
(Nicolsouia).—BENTH., in Plant. Jungh.,i. 221  Gen., 524, n. 182.—Ozyramphis Watt., Cat., 
(Desmodium). n. 5348-5350.— Campylotropis Bar., in Ann, 
2 In Mart. Fl. Bras., Papil., 106,t.28.— Sc. Nat., sér, 2, vi.57.—Ewvt., Gen., n. 6622.— 
B. H., Gen., 523, n. 181. Phlebosporiwm Juneu., Reise, 346, ex Flora 
3 “ Yellow or whitish.” (1847), 508. 
4 Fl. Bor.-Amer., ti. 70, t. 39, 40.—DC., 5 White, pink, or purplish. 
