. The natural history of plants. Botany. LBQUMINOSM-CmSALPINIBM. 113 SwuMnia {Casparia) porrecta. are three fertile stamens; tlie rest are sterile, and the calyx is re- curved ; while the insertion of the gynaeceum, central in Casparia, is here excentric. F/ianera^ resembles Zowo- calyx in the insertion of the pistil; but its calyx splits to the base into long straps, while it is only shortly five-cleft in the former section. In Lasiolemd the receptacle is shallow, and the number of stamens is often reduced to five, of which the three anterior are alone fertile. The gynseceura, which is often
. The natural history of plants. Botany. LBQUMINOSM-CmSALPINIBM. 113 SwuMnia {Casparia) porrecta. are three fertile stamens; tlie rest are sterile, and the calyx is re- curved ; while the insertion of the gynaeceum, central in Casparia, is here excentric. F/ianera^ resembles Zowo- calyx in the insertion of the pistil; but its calyx splits to the base into long straps, while it is only shortly five-cleft in the former section. In Lasiolemd the receptacle is shallow, and the number of stamens is often reduced to five, of which the three anterior are alone fertile. The gynseceura, which is often pauciovulate, has behind it a large gland of variable form. Thus constituted/ the genus Bauldnia consists of some hundred and twenty-five species* of erect or climbing trees or shrubs from all tropical countries. The stem is often flattened and deformed," and there are often simple cirrhi or tendrils at the base of the inflorescence. The leaves are simple alternate, with a variable number of digitate basilar ribs, entire or. Fia. SB. Flower. ' LoTTB., ¥1. Cochinch., 46.—SympJiyopoda DC, Mem. Legvm., xiii. t. 70 j Prodr., ii. 515. Fertile stamens four or five, the rest sterile or altogether absent. Pod coriaceous bivalve. This section comprises some forty species from tr(ipi cal Asia and Africa, and from the Cape. Un armed shrubs either sarmentose and cirrhose or erect, with entire or two-lobed leaves. (Vaiii., Symb. Bot., iii. t. 62.—Wioht, Icon., t. 263, 264.—Wall., PI. Asiat. Bar., t. 253.—Koeth Verfi. Nat. Gesch. Bot., t. 10, 11, 23, 24.— Benth., in PI. Jungh., 263 (part.); Fl. SongJc. 99.—Haet. & SoHB., Fl. Cap., ii. 375 \B. Bwlceana'].) [For the African species of this genus see also Olit., Fl. Trop. Afr., ii. 285.] ^ KoKTH., ex MiQ., Fl. , i. p. 1, 71. This section might perhaps be raised to the rank of a distinct genus. The flowers have a very shallow receptacle. In L. emgumea Geiee., the calyx is gamosepalous, five toothed; the petals are
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