LEGUMINOS #-PAPILIONACE@. 365 
style short thick bowed, inflexed ; apex obtuse capitate stigmatiferous. 
Legume stipitate oblong-lanceolate acuminate, slightly compressed 
2-valved.—A branching tree ; leaves alternate simple large coriaceous 
penniveined, shortly petiolate ; stipules small subulate ; flowers' in 
short axillary simple or branched racemes ; bracts and bractlets under 
flower minute caducous (Worth Brazil’). 
281. Ateleia Mog. & Sussz.*—Calyx gamosepalous obconical, 
horizontally truncate entire, or very shortly 5-toothed. Petal 1, 
vexillary, long-unguiculate ; limb broader subcucullate, finally inflexed. 
Stamens 10, subhypogynous, free or 1-adelphous at very base ; anthers 
uniform subovate compressed. Germen stipitate; ovules 2 de- 
scending ; stigma subsessile ovate bowed inflexed, on top of germen. 
Legume stipitate, usually accompanied with unthickened persistent 
calyx, much compressed subsamaroid membranous, narrowly and 
shortly winged at straight superior suture, indehiscent. Seed reni- 
form compressed attached laterally ; embryo exalbuminous; radicle 
inflexed accumbent.—Unarmed trees or shrubs ; leaves imparipinnate 
stipules minute or 0; flowers‘ in axillary, simple or slightly 
branched racemes; bracts narrow, 1-flowered (Central America and 
Antilles’). 
282. Belairia A. Ricu.‘—Receptacle obliquely-turbinate ; calyx 
shortly 5-toothed. Petals acute erect ; standard trapeziform ; wings 
and keel-petals subequal linear-lanceolate free. Stamens 10, free 
exserted; anthers uniform ovate. Germen stipitate; ovules 2, 3; 
style subulate incurved ; apex minute stigmatiferous. Legume stipi- 
tate small oblong plano-compressed ; placentary suture marginate. 
Seeds reniform compressed; albumen membranous; embryo fleshy ; 
radicle incurved accumbent.—Shrubs ; leaves alternate paripinnate ; 
leaflets small paucijugate ; stipules long-spinescent subulate ; flowers 
pedicellate solitary or subfascicled at old nodes; bracts caducous ; 
bractlets small, persisting long (Cuéda’). 
1 Small, ochrey-white. 
2 Species 1. P. longifolia Spruce, ex 
Bentu., in Trans. Linn. Soc., xxv. 801, t. 35. 
57, fig. 1 (Plerocarpus).—A. Ricu., Fl. Cub., t. 
42 (Swartzia).—GRIsEB., Pl. Wright., in Mem. 
Amer. Acad., viii. 180; Cat. Pl. Cub., 80. 
3 Ex DC., Wém. Légum., 395, t. 57; Prodr., 
ii, 419 (Pterocarpi sect. v.).—BENTH., in Ann. 
Wien, Mus., ii. 101.—ENDL., Gen, u. 6711.— 
B. H., Gen., 558, n. 283. 
4 Whitish, small. 
5 Species 2 or 3. DC., Mém. Légum., 10, t. 
6 Fl. Cub. i. 511, t. 40.—B. H., Gen., 558, 
n, 282. 
7 Species 1, B. spinosa A. Riox., loc. cit.— 
GriszB., Pl. Cub. Wright., in Mem. Amer. 
Acad., viii. 179; Cat. Pl. Cub., 81, 284. 
