LEGUMINOSJE. 
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1 . Suriana maritima. Seaside Suriana. 
Ihyinelaeae facie frutex maritimus tetraspermus, Sloane, If. 
29. t. IG2. f. 4. — Suriana inaritima, Browne, 190. — Jacq.Amer. 
140.— Swartz, Ohs. \Sb.—De Cand. Prod. II. 91. 
HAB. Sea-shore at Plantain Garden River bay. 
FL. June. 
A shrub, '5 feet in height, erect : branches terete, tomentose, 
afterwards from lacerations of the cuticle reticulato-tomentose. 
Leaves numerous, crowded at the ends of the branchlets, ob- 
longo-spathulate, attenuated towards the base, rounded with a 
small apicula at the apex, entire, veinless, nerveless, thick, sub- 
velutino-pubescent (with the hairs slightly hooked) : petiole 
very short. Stipules none. Peduncle subterminal and axillary, 
about 5-flowered, scarcely longer than the leaves. Flowers 
small, yellow, pedicelled. Bracteas small, leaflike, at the divi- 
sions of the peduncle. Calyx 5-partite ; divisions erect, lan- 
ceolate, acute, sericeo-pubescent. Petals 5, slightly clawed, 
rounded at the apex, length of the calyx. Stamens 5, hypogy- 
nous : filaments subulate, villous at the base, with the remains 
of 5 others which are abortive : anthers ovate, yellow. Carpels 
5, albido-villous, each bearing a style from the inner side; 
stigmata obtuse. Capsules contained within the persistent calyx, 
5, pubescent ; each one-seeded. 
This is considered by Jacquin as an elegant shrub. It is a 
native of the shores of the warmer, parts of America and India, 
of New Caledonia and the West-India islands. The specimens 
from New Caledonia are usually decandrous. 
ORDER LXIII. LEGUMINOSiE. 
Calycine sepals 5 , more or less coalescing at the 
base so as to be either 5-dentate, 5-fid, or 5-partite, 
but never in the strict sense 5-sepalled. Petals 5, 
or by abortion, 4, 3, 2, 1, or none; in general unequal, 
inserted into the base of the calyx, rarely on the 
torus. Stamens inserted with, and double the number 
of the petals, or rarely 3 or 4 times the number, 
or fewer, either free, or with the filaments variously 
connected so as to be monadelphous, diadelphous (9 
and 1 or 5 and 5), or rarely triadelphous. Ovary 
simple. Fruit a legume or drupe. Seeds attached 
to the upper suture ; embryo destitute of albumen, 
