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Podalyria.} | LEGUMINOS& (Harv.) 9 
9. C. Bowieana (Harv.) ; young twigs thinly villous, older glabrous ; 
leaflets linear-terete, strongly revolute, glabrous, acute ; bracts broadly 
cymbiform, obtuse or subacute, smooth; calyx subsessile, glabrous, its 
lobes broadly-oblong, obtuse or subacute, ciliolate. 
Has. 8. Africa, eee Hook.) 
This remark: ooking form, or species, resembles C. galioides in aspect, but 
differs in the much shorter pedicels ; the large very broad ad obtuse, or scarcely 
acute bracts, and the calyx lobes. I am unwilling to pass it over, although nothing 
more is known of it than the three specimens preserved in Herb. Hooker. 
II. PODALYRIA, Lam. 
Calyx widely campanulate, subequally 5-cleft, with the base in- 
dented. Vexillum ample, rounded-emarginate, with a short recurved 
claw; ale obovate, oblique, rather shorter than the vexillum, longer 
than the broad, obtuse carina. Stamens separate, or slightly connate at 
base. Ovary sessile, pubescent, many-ovuled. Legume turgid, leathery, 
villous. Benth! in Hook. Lond. Journ. vol. 2, p. 434. DC. Prod. 2, p. tot. 
Silky or silvery-pubescent South African shrubs, with simple, alternate, expanded 
leaves. Stipules subulate, deciduous. Peduncles axillary, 1-2, rarely 3-4 flowered. 
Bracts solitary, falling off before the opening of the flowers. Flowers purple, rosy, 
or blush-white. Named from Podalyrius, a son of Ausculapius, : 
ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIES. 
1, Nitide, Adult-leaves quite glabrous and shining on the u surface, silk 
or villous on the lower. (Sp. 1-6.) ee . 
‘Leaves veinless: peduncles shorter than the leaves ... (1) speciosa. 
Leaves veinless: pedunc. equalling or exceeding the leaves : 
_. Lateral calyx segments as long as the carina (2) glauca, 
» Lateral calyx-segments much shorter than the carina: 
- . Leaves orixcular, with revolute margins... ...... (4) orbicularis. 
ries Leaves ovate or obovate: bab ore : 
Leaves } inch long, 2 lines wide... . (6) microphylla. 
Leaves about uncial, densely silky-lanose bene (3) buxifolia. 
Leaves reticulately veined on the lower surface... ... -.. (8) reticulata, 
2. Villosee. Leaves tomentose on both surfaces; the toment on the wpper surface 
mostly silky, that on the lower less abundant; the primary veins and often the 
netted ges conspicuous and prominent. Bracts broad, but not cap-shaped. 
(Sp. 7-11. 
Leaves orbicular or very broadly ovate, obtuse : 
Lvs. densely woolly beneath, not obviously nerved ... (7) cordata. — 
Lys. shortly tomentose and reticulately nerved beneath ... (8) canescens. 
Leaves oblong or ovate-elliptic, or lanceolate, acute or subacute : 
Under surface densely hairy ; lateral veins inconspicuous: 
Lvs. narrow-oblong, 1-14 inch long, 3-4 lines wide (9) velutina. 
Lvs. ovate or elliptical, 3-1 inch long, 8~9 lines wide (10) Burchellii. 
Under surface thinly pubescent, conspicuously netted- 
Velnid eas a ces ees vee (21) lanceolata, 
3. Calyptrate. Leaves pubescent on both sides, netted with veins and veinlets on 
the lower. Bracts very broad, connate into a cap, which separates at base and falls 
off from the opening flower. (Sp. 12.) 
Leaves obovate-elliptical, obtuse, t-2 inches long... ... «-- (12) calyptrata. 
4. Sericese. Leaves silky or silky-villous on both sides ; the veins concealed under 
the shining hairs, or rarely, in old leaves somewhat prominent. Bracts broad or 
wae 
Calyx shaggy with curled, rusty, coarse hairs... -.. (14) angente 
Calyx silky, with appressed and glossy hairs... (15). 
