Mlchos,] XL. LEGUMJNOS.K. ' 261 



c!es at the base and 2 callosities inside ; wings obovate, falcate, adhering to 

 the keel, nearly as long as the standard; keel much incurved, often beaked, 

 but not spiral. Upper stamen free, the others united ; anthers iuiiform, 

 Ovary nearly sessile, with several ovules ; style thickened upwards, either 

 bearded longitudinally on the inner side or hairy all round, at least round the 

 stigma, which is small and terminal. Pod flattened, usually falcate and acute, 

 2-valved. Seeds with a small or shortly linear hilum, not strophiolate. 

 ilei-bs often woody at the base, twining trailing or short and suberect. 

 Leaves pinnately tfifoliolate, stipellate. Stipules small. Flowers sometimes 

 few together, on very short axillary peduncles or even solitary, with striate 

 persistent bracts and bractcoles, almost as in Cliioria, more frequently m 

 axillary racemes, clustered on lateral nodes along the peduncle, with very 

 small and deciduous bracts and bracteoles, as in rit/na and F/iaseoIus. 



The genus is chiefly S. African, with a few tropical Asiatic and S. American species. The 

 only Australian one is widely spread over E. India and S.E. Africa. But, besides taat. 

 H. lignosus, Liun. ; DC. Trod. ii. 3137 ; Bot. Mag;, t. 382 {B. gibbosus, Thuub., H«rv. and 

 Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 244), a tall twiner with elegant racemes of pink and white flowers, a 

 native of S. Africa, but much cultivated for ornament in hot <-™"f';'e^', ^'J*^, ff 'V;™, ..'^ 

 «iid, from the neighbourhood " "" 



1. D.biflorus, Unn.; DC. Prod. ii. 393. Either dwarf and nearly 

 erect or elongated and twining, softly pubescent in all its pails, or at Icngiii 

 glabrous. Leaflets ovate, acuminate, 1 to % in. long, the lateral ones very 

 obli4ue. Stipules ovate or lanceolate, striate, persistent. Flowers usually i 

 or 2, rarely 3 or 4, clustered in the axils on a very short common peduncle 

 ^f a yellowish colour, not \ in. long. Bracts and bracteoles narrow, almost 

 s-'bulate or the lower ones broader and striate, Calyx-lobes sulnilate longer 

 %n the tube, tbe lowest longer than the others. Standard broadly ohovate, 

 «,"'gs narrow ; keel much incurved, with a short obtuse beak. Style til lo™, 

 glabrous, except a small tuft of hairs round the terminal stigma. 1 od talr^te, 

 «y Ii to 2 in. long and about 4 lines broad.-D- unifiorm, Lain^; UO. 

 Pfod. ii. 398 i B. axllL-is, E. May. ; Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. u. 24.x 



W- Australia. Giihcri river, F. Mue/ler. r. inflorescence and in the 



Jte species is dispersed over tropical Asia and S.E. Africa. In '"J^/f "^'J; " „,,hes iu 

 Jle not longitudinally bearded, it differs from most species of the S«° »'/"J J '™ ^lou^. 

 ^•ne respects Cliioria. The lowest flowers are apparcutly sometime, smaU and apetai 



61. DUNBARIA, W. and Am. 



^ %x-lobes acuminate, the 2 upper ones tmited "^^o \entir^ or sh^hU^ 



-^'V^ °"^- Standard obovate or orbicular, erector reflexed w t . mflexed 



"neles at the base and 2 callosities inside ; keel "J^"^'^''^'!' ^^^^^^ ,,S 



f f n free, the others united ; anthers uniform. Ovary es« ^'^'^J^^ ^ , ^'^ 



r^^^tyh filiform, incurved lind rather thickened about tlj /"' ^ ; f oHK^ 



"■^mal, small. Pod linear, flat, often falcate, acuminate ; ^ ^^f j^;^!'; '.t,! 



«t mdented between the se^Is. Seeds nearly orbicular. ^-^^.^'\7; *,;;■;;. 



f "g hilum, and a thin or small strophiole, scarcely fl^-'^^^y-r"^, ^'^^ f.ifoUolate 



^".g herbs, usually tomentose, often . viscid. Reaves P"^"f^ ^^^^ 



^'^I'ota slipelte/leaflets usually sprinkled with resinous dots undemcaUi. 



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