360 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
anthers linear versatile. Germen long stipitate; ovules « ; style 
incurved tapering towards apex ; rather obtuse stigmatiferous at very 
point. Legume elongated subfaleate turgid thick-woody, within 
spongy between seeds, 2-valved. Seeds large subglobose or ovoid; 
hilum linear; embryo fleshy ; cotyledons thick plano-convex ; radicle 
very short nearly straight or incurved.—A lofty tree; leaves 
imparipinnate; leaflets large coriaceous; stipules (apparently) 0; 
flowers' in short racemes on last year’s branches; bracts small ; 
bractlets 0 (Suétropical Australia’). 
269. Alexa Moc.'—Receptacle cupuliform, disciferous within. 
Calyx large coriaceous shortly sinuate-dentate, valvate (?). Corolla 
subregular; standard obovate emarginate or 2-lobed; wing- and 
keel-petals subsimilar free imbricate. Stamens 10, very perigynous 
free ; anthers linear. Germen excentric stipitate; ovules »; style 
incurved pointed; apex minute stigmatiferous. Legume large’ 
elongated compressed woody, within continuous, 2-valved. Seeds 
suborbicular compressed ; embryo fleshy ; radicle short straight —A 
lofty tree ; leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets large coriaceous ; flowers’ in 
lateral pendulous racemes at defoliated nodes ; bracts . . . . P (@wana’). 
270. Ormosia Jacks.’—Receptacle cupulate, disciferous within. 
Calyx gamosepalous ; 2 superior lobes longer and broader, usually 
incurved ; prefloration subvalvate or slightly imbricate. Petals free 
unguiculate; standard broadly suborbicular or cordate; wings 
obliquely obovate ; keel-petals subsimilar to wings, incurved, usually 
imbricated behind. Stamens 10, free; filaments articulated at base, 
unequal ; anthers versatile or (in 1-3 stamens) wanting. Germen 
subsessile, ovules 2-a ; style slender; apex involute; stigma in- 
trorse lateral. Legume oblong or elongated, more frequently short 
and unequally obovate or subrhomboidal, compressed, or rather turgid 
over seeds, thick-coriaceous continuous within, or spongy or septate 
1 Yellow or orange, 6 Species 1. A. Imperatricis.—Alexandra 
2 Species 2. One is doubtful, from the islands 
of New Caledonia; the other is C. australe A, 
Conn., loc. cit. Brntu., Fl. Austral., ii, 275. 
3 In DC, Prodr., xiii. p. 2, 168.—B, H,, 
Gen, 556, n. 275. — Alexandra Scuoms., 
Dissert. (1845), 18, icon. (nec Bex.). 
4 A foot and a half in length, 
5 Orange, lirge, 
Imperatricis SCHOMB.—WALP., Rep., v. 564. 
7 In Trans. Linn. Soc., x. 360, t. 25-27.— 
DC., Prodr., ii. 97.—Enpu., Gen. n. 6747.— 
B. H., Gen., 556, u. 276.— ? Macrotropis DC. 
Prodr,, ii. 98.—FENvDu., Gen., n. 6744.— ? Truli- 
chiba Apans., Fam. des Pl., ii. 326.— Layia 
Hoox. & Arn., Beech. Voy. Bot., 188, t, 38. 
