LEGUMINOS #-PAPILIONACEZ. 357 
keel ; wings obliquely oblong; keel nearly straight oblong near its 
petals, imbricated at back or valvately connate. Stamens 10, perigy- 
nous, free or more rarely connate at very base; anthers introrse, 
2-rimose versatile. Germen stipitate in bottom of receptacle ; ovules 
cc, descending ; micropyle superior extrorse ; style incurved ; apex 
minute stigmatiferous. Legume moniliform, terete or slightly com- 
pressed, outside naked or longitudinally 4-winged (Hdwardsia), woody 
coriaceous or fleshy (Styphnolobium), indehiscent or rather late sub-2- 
valved. Seeds 0, exarillate, albumen hard ; embryo fleshy ; cotyledons 
thick ; radicle superior short, nearly straight, or more frequently in- 
curved or inflexed.—T ees, shrubs, or rather perennial herbs ; leaves al- 
ternate imparipinnate, leaflets few or ; stipels setaceous or more 
frequently 0; stipules small deciduous or 0; flowers in terminal simple 
or branched racemes; bracts and bractlets small or more rarely 0 
(Warmer regions all over the world). See p. 222. 
262. Gourliea GiLL.'—Receptacle concave, glandular within. Calyx 
gamosepalous ; lower teeth shorter; two upper connate rather high. 
Petals rather long-unguiculate ; standard orbicular spreading ; wings 
obliquely obovate ; keel incurved obtuse, shorter than wings. Sta- 
mens 10, free or more frequently unequally connate at base; anthers 
small uniform. Germen sessile pluriovulate ; style incurved subulate, 
at apex capitate stigmatiferous. Legume ovoid-globular subdrupa- 
ceous, indehiscent; endocarp woody. Seeds few (1-3) reniform 
thick exarillate ; embryo exalbuminous thick; radicle incurved.—A 
shrub ; twigs alternate spinescent ; leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets ~, 
small; flowers? small in short few-flowered racemes, often fascicled 
at nodes on wood of branches ; bracts small caducous (Lztratropical 
South America’). 
263. Ammodendron Fiscu.'—Calyx high-gamosepalous, lobes 
subequal, 2 superior shortly connate. Petals stamens of Sophora; 
anthers versatile. Germen sessile 2- or pauci-ovulate ; style incurved 
subulate; apex minutely capitate stigmatiferous. Legume linear- 
1In Hook. Bot. Misc., iii. 207, t. 106.— 3 Cros, in C. Gay Fl. Chil., ii. 218.—WaLP., 
Envi. Gen, n. 6746.—B. H., Gen, 555, n. Rep., i. 807; Ann., ii. 440. 
272. 4 In DC., Prodr., ii. 523.—EnNDL., Gen., u. 
2 Gold-coloured, striate. 6739.—B. H., Gen., 554, n. 270. 
