LEGUMINOSZ-PAPILIONACEZ. 329 
wings sometimes adherent to slightly curved keel above claw. 
Germen sessile or shortly stipitate ; ovules 2-0. Legume obliquely 
orbicular, oblong or elongated, flat, membranous or coriaceous, 
indehiscent ; style terminal; superior or both sutures narrowly 
winged. Seeds 1 or several, reniform, ovate, or orbiculate, com- 
pressed.—Trees or oftener climbing shrubs; leaves imparipinnate ; 
leaflets opposite ; flowers’ in simple or branched racemes, solitary or 
in pairs or oftener fascicled along rachis ; bracts and bractlets small, 
usually caducous (Zropical Asia, eastern Africa and adjoining islands, 
Australia, tropical America’). 
VIII. GENISTEA. 
194, Genista T.—Receptacle small, slightly glandular. Calyx 
gamosepalous; 2 superior lobes free or more or less connate; 3 in- 
ferior connate into a 3-toothed lip. Corolla papilionaceous ; standard 
subovate; wings oblong; keel curved or nearly straight, obtuse, 
laterally 2-gibbous ; claws free or adnate to staminal tube. Stamens 
10, 1-adelphous ; tube closed ; 5 alternate anthers shorter versatile ; 
5 others longer subbasifixed. Germen sessile; ovules 2-m; style 
curved, inflexed, or more rarely circinate; apex capitate or oblique, 
stigmatiferous. Legume either subglobose or ovate, horny fleshy, 
indehiscent (Belia); or slightly compressed, scarcely dehiscent 
(Retama) ; or subrhomboidal oblique or falcate oblong, 2-valved, 
valves hard (Drymospartum, Voglera); or linear or elongated, nearly 
straight, compressed, 2-valved, valves thin (Corniola); or more rarely 
obliquely oblong, turgid, straight or falcate (Camptolobium). Seeds 
l-o; embryo fleshy, sparingly or not albuminous; radicle in- 
flexed.*—Shrubs or undershrubs; branches virgate rush-like (Dry- 
mospartum), or spinescent (Voglera, Camptolobium), sometimes leafless 
or with few 1-foliolate leaves (Belia, Retama), sometimes virgate ; 
leaves 1—3-foliolate, usually small; stipules minute or 0; flowers 
racemose, capitate, or fascicled at extremities of branches, solitary, 
few, or fascicled on lateral branches; bracts and bractlets small deci- 
1 White, pink, purple, or violet. ; 
2 Species about 40. Roxs., Pl. Coromand., 
t. 192.—Watt., Pl. As. Rar., t. 237.—Wiaut, 
Icon., t. 87, 240, 244, 275.—DC., Prodr., ii. 
260, n. 13 (Lonchocarpus).— Brntu., in Pl. 
Jungh., i. 252; in Journ, Linn. Soc., iv. Suppl. 
101; in Mart., Fl. Bras., Papil., 287, t. 107.— 
Taw., Enum. Pl. Zeyl., 418. 
+ «The character of having estrophiolate seeds 
seems to us to accord pretty well with its habit, 
although there isa doubt about the matter in 
some species” (BENTH.). 
