LEGUMINOSZ-PAPILIONACEZ. 371 
dehiscing longitudinally. Germen subcentral, free stipitate in 
bottom of receptacle ; ovules o, anatropous, 2-seriate; style straight 
elongated, at apex unthickened ostiolate stigmatiferous. Legume 
obliquely ovate, compressed thick-coriaceous, 2-valved; sutures 
thickened. “Seeds 1-3, ovate transverse compressed exarillate 
exalbuminous; cotyledons flat orbicular; radicle short inflexed.”— 
Small unarmed shrubs; leaves alternate imparipinnate ; leaflets 
stipellate; stipules small subulate; caducous; flowers' in loose 
axillary racemes; bracts and bractlets small subpersistent’ (Brazi/*). 
293. Cordyla Lovr.‘—Flowers almost those of A/dina, apetalous ; 
receptacle subcampanulate, lined by a disk ;° calyx entire valvate 
before anthesis, finally unequally 3-5-lobed. Stamens o; filaments 
free or connate close to base, much inflexed in bud, finally exserted ; 
anthers short, inserted by upper part of back, glandular above insertion, 
rimose introrse. Germen central raised on a long stalk; ovules « ; 
style short subulate arched ; apex minute stigmatiferous. Legume 
stipitate ovoid acuminate, pulpy within. Seeds »; albumen thin; 
embryo fleshy; radicle inflexed—Trees, unarmed; leaves impari- 
pinnate ; leaflets 0, alternate; stipules lanceolate caducous; flowers’ 
in racemes fascicled at old nodes or more rarely axillary ; bracts and 
bractlets small caducous’ (Zropical Africa’). 
The genera we have just enumerated are classed according to the 
rules aid down by Bentuam. The order Papilionacee is thus 
divided into eleven secondary groups or series, whose general cha- 
racters we can now repeat :— 
I. Vicrz#.—Flowers papilionaceous. Herbs with paripinnate 
leaves; midrib ending in a short bristle or more frequently trans- 
formed into a tendril; leaflets often denticulate at the apex. Stamens 
2-adelphous (9-1) or subadelphous. Pod bivalved (6 genera). 
1 Pink or purple, 
2 A genus intermediate between Papilionacee 
and Cesalpiniee, which, perhaps, will be referred 
to Sclerolobiee by preference when the seed is 
better known. 
3 Species 2. Watp., Rep., i, 845. 
4 Fi. Cochinch., ed. Ulyssip. (1790), 411 (nec 
Bu.).—DC., Prodr., ii. 521.—Enpu., Gen., n. 
6817.—B. H., Gen., 562, n, 295,— Cordylia 
Pers., Syn., ii. 260.—Calycandra Lepr., ex A. 
Ricu., Fl. Seneg. Tent., i. 30, 232, t. 9. 
5 Disk marked by thin longitudinal striz. 
§ White, scented. 
7 This genus is, no doubt, closely related to 
Aldina, 
8 Species lor 2. Ku, in Pet. Moss., Bot., 
t, 4. 
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