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silky hairs, and the capitate stigma. The pod is incras- 
sated at both sutures. Calyx bibracteolate at the base, 
pubescent, and slightly tubular; it is 4-cleft, the seg- 
ments lanceolate, acute, the upper one the longest. 
(1.) Galactia Jussieana, Kunth, Mim. t. 55.—Rhyncho- 
sia brachypoda, Gill. mst.—On the Pampas of Buenos 
Ayres, Dr. Gillies; Tweedie—This has certainly the 
habit of a Rhynchosia. 
(2.) Galactia? stenophylla (Hook. et Arn.) ; suffrutex, 
minutissime pubescens, foliis sessilibus, foliolis ternis 
linearibus obtusis mucronulatis basi in petiolum 
attenuatis coriaceis subtus celluloso-impressis, pedun- 
culis axillaribus solitariis flores 6-7 corymbosos ge- 
rentibus, calyce sericeo.—Arroya del Sauce, Banda 
Orientale, "T'weedie.—Calyx with two small bractez at its 
base, 4-cleft; segments nearly equal, the upper being 
rather broader, and more obtuse. Petals papilionaceous, 
apparently white, rather large, and nearly equal, with 
distinct claws: vexillum suborbiculari-reniform, the 
unguis furnished with a thick fleshy scale, to which 
is attached the free stamen: the lamina of each of the 
alee is saccate at the base, on the side next the vexillum, 
and their claws adhere to the column of stamens; the 
carina is obtuse, of one piece, but divided upwards, half 
way from the base, and each segment is saccate like the 
alae. The stamens are diadelphous (9 and 1), the tube 
split open on one side. The germen is linear-oblong, 
densely silky, the hairs close-pressed, and pointing up- 
wards. The style is glabrous, about one-fourth as long as 
the germen, compressed, slightly curved, attenuated from 
its base, which is as broad as the germen, to the point, 
where it is truncate, bearing a stigma, only distinguisn- 
able by the colour; ovules 8-10.— As this analysis 
agrees with no known genus, we should willingly have 
constituted a new one (Platystylus), but we leave the 
plant in the allied Galactia, from the absence of fruit, 
which alone would enable us to determine it satisfactorily. 
