368 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
filament. Germen excentric, long-stipitate on posterior wall of 
receptacle ; ovules 1, 2, descending ; style short incurved ; apex minute 
stigmatiferous. Legume stipitate thickened and indurated at apex, 
tapering below on either side into a long wing; posterior wing 
broader than anterior; pericarp indehiscent, containing balsamic 
cavities round seed. Seed 1, descending subreniform ; testa thin ; 
embryo thick ; cotyledons plano-convex or more or less subruminate; 
radicle short incurved.—Balsamiferous trees; leaves alternate im- 
paripinnate ; leaflets exstipellate, sprinkled with round and shortly 
linear pellucid dots ; flowers' racemose ; racemes simple axillary, or 
simple compound, or fascicled at ends of branches; bracts minute 
rigid; pedicels articulated at base; bractlets inserted at a variable 
height on pedicels, minute or 0 (South America’). 
287? Ferreirea AtLem.’—Calyx membranous subpetaloid trun- 
cate; teeth obsolete. Standard broadly suborbicular reflexed ; 4 
inferior petals subsimilar free narrowly oblong. Stamens free, 
slightly shorter than petals ; anthers uniform ovate. Germen shortly 
stipitate 1-ovulate; apex produced into a membranous transversely 
veined wing thickened behind, indehiscent. Seeds oblong subreni- 
form compressed ; testa membranous ; cotyledons not thick; radicle 
incurved.—A tall tree; leaves imparipinnate; leaflets oo, small ex- 
stipellate ; flowers’ racemose ; racemes slender panicled at end of 
branches; bracts and bractlets small very caducous’® (Brazil). 
288? Camoensia Wetw.’—Calyx (receptacle?) campanulate or 
very long; lobes 5, imbricate. Corolla papilionaceous; petals un- 
guiculate corrugated ; standard broadly orbicular; wings and keel- 
petals ovate or cuneate, free. Stamens 10, free; anthers uniform 
versatile. Germen stipitate; ovules x; style filiform, involute in 
bud; stigma terminal small or capitate. Legume broadly linear 
plano-compressed thick-coriaceous 2-valved. Seeds obovate trans- 
1 Whitish, 3 In Trab. Soc. Velloz., 26, icon—B. H., 
2 As many as 6 species have been described, Gen., 558, n. 284, 
but there are probably only 2 or 3 variable. 4 « Small, yellow.” 
Lamx., Dict., iv. 191; Suppl., iii, 708; Til, t. 5 “A genus nearly resembling Tipwana in 
841, fig. 2 (Myrospermum).—H. B. K., Nov. leaves and legume, but in flowers nearly akin to 
Gen, et Spec., vi. 374.—KL., in Hayne Arzen.  Bowdichia and Myrospermum (or Toluifera) 
xiv, t. 11, 12,—A. Ricz., Fl. Cub., i. 166, t.38.— (BENTH.), 
BentH., in Mart. Fl, Bras. Papil., 310.— 6 Ex B. H., Gen., 557, 1002, n. 281. 
Watp., Rep., i, 805. 
