LEGUMINOS#-PAPILIONAOEZ. 323 
round margin into a woody or submembranous wing, l-seeded. Embryo 
fleshy ; radicle straight or slightly inflexed.—Trees ; leaves pari- 
pinnate; leaflets opposite or alternate, exstipellate ; last leaflet: sub- 
terminal ; stipules small or 0; flowers' in a much branched terminal 
raceme bearing leaves at base; bracts and bractlets membranous, 
similar to larger lobes of calyx, deciduous’ (South America’). 
182. Euchresta Brenn.‘—Receptacle unevenly cupuliform, poste- 
riorly gibbous, lined by a thin disk. Calyx gamosepalous ; teeth 5, 
nearly equal. Corolla almost that of Coudlandia; petals long- 
unguiculate. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1); anthers versatile. 
Germen long-stalked ; ovules 1, 2, descending ; style slender curved ; 
apex minute stigmatiferous. Legume ovoid stipitate shining, papery 
and fragile when dry, indehiscent. Seed 1; embryo exalbuminous; 
radicle short straight superior—Shrubs, glabrous ; leaves alternate 
imparipinnate ; leaflets 3-7, rather thick ; stipules minute caducous ; 
flowers’ in axillary and terminal racemes; bracts narrow; pedicel 
usually geniculate below flower (Further India, Indian Archipelago, 
Japan’). 
183. Fissicalyx Bunra.’—“Calyx-tube turbinate; limb acumi- 
nate, entire or very shortly 2-toothed, sometimes cleft spathe-like on 
anthesis. Petals inserted with stamens at top of tube; standard 
-ovate ; wings obliquely oblong, free; petals of keel nearly similar 
to and a little smaller than wings, free. Stamens all connate into a 
sheath cleft above; anthers versatile, 2-porous at apex. Germen 
shortly stipitate, 2-ovulate ; style filiform ; stigma minute terminal. 
Legume flat, narrow itself, but oval-elliptical with its wings 
indehiscent; sutures slightly projecting; edges longitudinally and 
broadly winged at middle. Seed pendulous; hilum small; radicle 
short straight superior.—A tree; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; 
1 Whitish, pink. le lilac, often hand- 4 Plant. Jav. Rar., 148, t. 31.—EnDL., Gen., 
Pt reall, a ae n. 6727.—B. H., Gen. 551, n. 254, 
? This genus ought, perhaps, rather to be con- 5 White. 
sidered a section of Coumarouna, with mem- 6 Species 2. _LESCHEN., in Ann, Mus., xvi. 
branous calyx and fruit tapering at margin. 481, t. 12 (Andira)—DC., Prodr., ii. 476, n. 6 
3 Species about 4. Moric., Pl. Now. Amér, (Andira?),—Brntn., in Jowrn, Linn. Soe., iv. 
t. 62 (Commilobium).—BENTH., in Journ, Linn. Suppl. Wy ue eae 
Soe., iv. Suppl., 127; in Mart. Fl. Bras., Papil., 7In Journ. Linn. Soc., v.78; in Trans. Linn. 
304, t. 120, 121. Soc., xxiii. 889, t. 39.—B, H., Gen., 552, n. 259. 
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