LEGUMINOS #-PAPILIONACES. 367 
bracts small; bractlets 0 or minute inserted at superior articulation 
of pedicel (Brazil'). 
285. Myrospermum Jacq.’—Receptacle long obconical incurved, 
disciferous within; mouth oblique. Calyx gamosepalous subcampa- 
nulate ; teeth 5 very short broad obtuse, with resinous ribs; pre- 
floration ....? Corolla papilionaceous ; standard broadly obovate, 
much involute completely surrounding other petals, finally expanded ; 
wings and keel-petals subsimilar to one another, shorter, narrower 
sublanceolate acuminate. Stamens 10, free; filaments much elon- 
gated exserted persistent ; anthers small ovate; connective bearing 
an oblong gland behind below apex. Germen stipitate compressed ; 
ovules 2—-co , obliquely descending anatropous; style suberect subu- 
late; apex not thickened, stigmatiferous. Legume surrounded at 
base by persistent receptacle calyx and filaments, long-stipitate, much 
compressed phyllode-like veined, below acuminate apex indurated in- 
flated and excavated, 1-seeded, indehiscent, tapering for a long way 
to base, unequally 2-winged; superior wing a little broader than 
inferior. Seeds descending oblong compressed ; cotyledons rather 
fleshy, laterally unequally auriculate at base; radicle superior short 
incurved.—A tree or shrub ;° leaves alternate imparipinnate, leaflets 
exstipellate, sprinkled with pellucid round and shortly linear dots ; 
stipules minute 3-angular caducous; flowers in simple axillary 
racemes (Fropical and Central America and Antilles). 
286. Toluifera L.‘—Receptacle obliquely turbinate, lined by a 
glandular disk. Calyx gamosepalous, entire, in bud valvate; un- 
equally dentate just at expansion. Petals very perigynous, unequal ; 
standard broadly orbicular ; wings and keel-petals subsimilar to one 
another, much smaller, narrowly lanceolate. Stamens 10, inserted 
with petals, filaments free or shortly connate at very base; anthers 
exserted uniform apiculate introrse 2-rimose, longer than very slender 
1 Species 2 or 3. ALLEM., loc. cit.—BENTH., 
in Linnea, xxii, 526 (Leptolobiwm).—Watp., 
Ann., iii, 932. 
2 Stirp. Amer., 120, t. 174, fig. 34.—DC., 
Prodr., ii, 94 (sect. i., Calusia BERt., excl. sect. 
ii,).—-EnDL., Gen., n, 6736 a,—B. H., Gen., 558, 
n, 285, 
3 Species 1, MM, frutescens Jacg., loc. cit.— 
H. B. K., Nov, Gen, et Spec., vi. 572, t. 570, 
571. 
+ Gen, n. 524 (1737)—J., Gen. 372.— 
Myroxylon L, ¥., Suppl. (1781), 34 (nec 
Forst.).—DC., Prodr., ii. 95 (Myrospermi sect. 
ii.).—A, Ricu.,, in Ann, Se, Nat., sér. 1, ii. 168.— 
EnDL., Gen,, 0, 6786 (part.).—B, H., Gen., 558, 
n. 286, 
