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young linear or oblong, compressed, terminated by style). Seeds 
distant.—Trees ; leaves alternate imparipinnate; leaflets alternate ; 
stipels minute or 0; stipules very caducous or inconspicuous ; 
flowers,’ in short, axillary or lateral, racemes, scattered along rachis ; 
bracts and bractlets small” (South America’). 
178. Andira Lamx.2—Calyx gamosepalous; teeth 5, short or 
nearly absent. Standard suborbicular or obovate, tapering at base 
into a claw; wings and keel-petals (the latter dorsally imbricated), 
nearly similar, oblong. Stamens 10, l-adelphous or oftener 9-adel- 
phous (9-1); anthers versatile. Germen subsessile or oftener stipi- 
tate; ovules 1 or oftener 2-4; style short curved; apex minute 
stigmatiferous. Fruit drupaceous,* ovoid or obovoid, often rather 
compressed ; mesocarp more or less fleshy ; endocarp thick woody 
indehiscent, 1-seeded. Seed descending; embryo very fleshy, thick 
exalbuminous ; cotyledons plano-convex ; radicle short straight su- 
perior.—Trees ; leaves imparipinnate; leaflets opposite or alter- 
nate; stipels small setaceous or 0; stipules narrow or minute ; 
flowers’ scattered or cymose, usually crowded, on much branched 
terminal racemes; pedicels very short; bracts and bractlets short 
caducous (Zropical America’ and Africa’). 
179? Geoffreea L.'—Flowers nearly of Andira; teeth or lobes 
of calyx nearly equal or 2 superior connate to a greater height. 
Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1). Germen sessile or shortly stipitate ; 
ovules few descending. Fruit drupaceous (nearly of <Andira), 
ovoid obovoid or globose. Seed 1 (of Andira).—Large or small 
trees; leaves imparipinnate; leaflets alternate or subopposite ; 
stipels rarely conspicuous; stipules acute or acuminate; flowers’ 
1 « Yellow or whitish, mixed with red or violet ; 
petals glabrous.” 
2 Species 38. BENTH., in Mart. Fl. Bras., 
Papil., 270, t. 95. 
3 Dict., i. 171 (part.); Suppl., i. 848; I7L., 
t. 604.—DC., Prodr., ii. 475.—Spacu, Suit. & 
Buffon, i. 185.—Envu., Gen., n. 6726.—B. H., 
Gen., 550, n. 255.—Lumbricidia Vetioz., Fl. 
Flum., vii. t. 104, 105.— ? Poltolobium Prezst, 
Bot. Bem., 63 (ex BENTH., loc. cit.). 
4 Like those of the Prunea. 
® Pink or violet, sweet-scented. 
5 Species about 15. H. B. K., Nov. Gen. e¢ 
vou. II. 
Spec., vi. 385.—BENTH., in Ann. Wien. Mus., 
ii. 107; in Journ. Linn. Soc., iv. Suppl., 118; 
in Mart. Fl. Bras., Papil., 291, t. 109-116.— 
GrisEs., Pl. Cub. Wright., i. 179. 
7 Species Lor 2. H. By., in Adansonia, vi. 
219, note 1—Baxer, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., 
ii, 246. 
8 Gen., n. 878.—B. H., Gen., 551, n. 256.— 
Geoffroya DC., Prodr., ii. 476.—Ewnpu., Gen., 
n. 6725.— P Acouroa AUBL., Guwian., ili. 753 
(part.).—Drakensteinia Nuck., Elem.,n.1344.— 
Umari Mazce., Bras., 121 (ex ExDL.). 
» Yellow, usually fetid.. 
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