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rRIBUTIONS FROM lilt NATIONAL HERBARI1 M. 



in. n. 11-. more rarely 1 to 3, withoul stipels 



\ B84 STNOMl \l\ \i 



Stamen sheath split on the upper edge or 



entire. 

 Btamen sheath split on the under edge 

 a ii< 1 Boon after florescence al-. . more or 

 Less "ii tin- upper edge. 

 Stamens all connate in a closed tube, tin- an- 

 thers alternately longer and Axed near the 

 k and shorter and versatile; flowers in 

 terminal <>r axillary spikes or heads, rarely 

 somewhat racemose; Leaves pinnate, usu- 

 ally with few Leaflets, not Btipellate. v i->- 



i.< >8 vvnux \i 



Calyx with an elongated filiform tube; 

 Leaves pinnate. 



Pod small, distinctly articulated, 

 hooked at the end, ripening in the 

 air; leaves pinnate with only 3 

 leaflets; flowers .-mall, terminal or 

 axillary, in dense hispidulous 

 spi I 

 P«ul Large, not articulated, not 

 hooked at the end, ripening in the 

 Boil; leaves pinnate, usually with 

 i. seldom with 3 leaflets; flowers 

 rather large, solitary, axillary with 

 long pedicels. 

 Calyx tube n<>t elongated; leaves digi- 

 tate, with -2 <>r -i Leaflets. 

 Stamens LO, monadelphous or diadelphous; pod 

 indehiscent; erect or scandent shrubs or trees, 

 with imparipinnate Leaves and out ire leaflets. 



I >AI.BKK<.IKA K. 



P<'<1 membranous, papyraceous, or coriaceous 

 to ligneous, often compressed and winged, 

 in any case not drupaceous. 



Leaflets alternate, rarely reduced to |. 

 (Pterocarpi* 



Anthers small, terminal, erect, the 

 cells dehiscing by a .-mall apical 

 slit . pod Buborbicular. 

 Anthers dorsilixed. opening Longitu- 

 dinally. 



\x blunt at the base, brac- 

 teoles usually Bomewhat or- 

 bicular; standard Bilky out- 

 side; pod thickly coriaceous. 

 1 !yx turbinate at the l 

 bracteoles small, deciduous: 

 standard glabrous; pod pa- 

 pyraceous or thinly coria- 

 ceous, more or Less incrassated 

 in th<- center. 



Utin [». Im) . 

 39. Aesthynonu n< p. lsl . 



40. Stylotanthes <p. 183). 



■11. Ararhls p. 1S4'». 

 42. Zornia (p. 185). 



15. Dcdbergia (p. 192). 



46. Drepanocarpus (p. 193). 



17. PUrocarput I p. 191 >. 



