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verse compressed; embryo exalbuminous, radicle short straight.— 
Climbing shrubs; leaves digitately 3-foliolate ; leaflets petiolulate ; 
flowers' large coriaceous in simple racemes at superior axils; bracts 
and bractlets short caducous (West of tropical Africa’), 
XI. TOUNATEZ. 
289, Tounatea Avsi.—Flowers hermaphrodite or rarely poly- 
gamous; receptacle minute, convex or slightly concave, disciferous. 
Calyx before anthesis entire, globose or obovoidal, at anthesis bursting 
variably sometimes open cup-shaped unequally toothed, circumscissile 
from base (Cyathostegia), sometimes reflexed, unequally 2-, 3-vaived 
(Zrischidium), often coriaceous or submembranous, irregularly 4-valved 
(Hutounatea, Possira), occasionally herbaceous subreflexed, unequally 
lobed (Fistuloides). Petals 0, or more frequently 1 vexillary, broad 
corrugated, more rarely accompanied by two lateral minute. Stamens 
subhypogynous or hypogynous, free or shortly connate at base; anthers 
uniform linear (Zrischidium, Cyathostegia), or ovate or subglobular 
(Hutounatea), or anterior few or more, longer and thicker (Pistulozdes, 
Possira) ; filaments longer equal. Carpels 1, more rarely 2. Germen 
stipitate usually incurved ; ovules © ; style tapering ; stigma terminal 
minute or capitate. Legume ovoid or elongated, subterete long 
(Fistuloides) or turgid, coriaceous or fleshy, rarely full of gummy 
lacune, indehiscent or 2-valved. Seeds arillate or exarillate, albu- 
minous or exalbuminous; embryo fleshy; radicle short inflexed— 
Unarmed trees; leaves alternate imparipinnate or 1-foliolate ; sti- 
pule minute or more rarely foliaceous ; flowers solitary pedunculate 
axillary or lateral, or usually racemose; racemes solitary or fascicled 
at old nodes, rarely branching axillary or on leafless twigs. Bracts 
and bractlets small, usually caducous (Zropical America and Africa). 
See p. 225. 
290. Aldina Enpi.'—Flowers subregular; receptacle obconical 
turbinate, lined by a thick disk. Calyx gamosepalous, entire in bud, 
on anthesis valvate, unequally-partite. Petals 5, 6, subequal erect 
1 Handsome, in one species (C, maxima 3 Gen., n. 6815,—B. H., Gen., 560, n. 293.— 
-Bryts.) gigantic. Allania Bents., in Hook, Journ, ii, 91 (nec 
? Species 2, Benru., in Trans. Linn, Soc, ENDL), 
eee t, 36.—Baxgr, in Oliv, Fl. Trop. Afr., 
ii, 251, 
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