ENUMERATION OF LEGUMINOS2. 441 
Trise II, Lotee, DC. 
This tribe was established by De Candolle, to include all 
Papilionacee with a curved embryo and stamens more or 
less combined, which have neither the articulate pod of Hedy- 
saree, nor the fleshy cotyledons remaining unchanged at the 
period of germination by which he distinguished Viciee, 
Phaseolee and Dalbergiee. The latter character is one 
which is unfortunately practically useless, as it cannot be 
verified in the full-grown plant, and has never been ascer- 
tained in the great majority of species, but as I am not 
acquainted with any other positive distinction between the 
Lotee as a whole and the three other last-mentioned tribes, 
I shall endeavour, with regard to each sub-tribe, to consider 
it as a substantive tribe, and suggest characters by which 
each one may be distinguished from all other papilionaceous 
tribes. 
Sub-tribe I, LIPARIE®Æ. 
Folia simplicia. Ale transverse plicate. Stamina 9 con- 
nata, decimum vexillare liberum, rarissime (in Coelidio ovario 
uniovulato) cum ceteris leviter connatum. Ovarium uni-v. 
pluri-ovulatum.  Legumenin articulatum, bivalve. Frutices 
Austro-Africani, inflorescentia axillari v. terminali nec oppo- 
sitifolia. Folia alterna, exstipulata. 
This small sub-tribe comprehends the diadelphous Genis- 
tee of De Candolle, which would on that account, strictly 
speaking, belong to his sub-tribe of Trifoliee, from which 
they are removed by their habit and foliage, and character- 
ized with tolerable accuracy by the plicate ale of the corolla 
which they have in common with the Genistee. Of the five 
genera which I here unite, all South African, Liparia and 
Priestleya are very near to Podalyria, but distinguished by 
the artificial character of the diadelphous stamens. Amphi- 
thalea, Lathriogyne and Coelidium have the remarkable appen- 
dage to the carinal petals which was considered as charac- 
teristic of Indigofera, but have neither the habit nor the hairs 
