Classification of Plants , 313 



ovaries bend to the right in some flowers, toward the left in 

 others. Trees or shrubs. Eastern. Leaves pari-pinnate. 



Schotia. — A handsome Eastern tree, with panicles of 

 crimson or pink flowers. S. latifolia, Jacq. (Boerboon) has 

 monadelphous stamens. Each seed has a yellow cup-like 

 arillus. The pods are-roasted for food. Legume winged ; leaves 

 paripinnate. 



Sub-tribe Papilionace^. 



A. Stamens free. 



Podalyria. — Legume rounded, woolly. Leaves simple or 

 palmately compound. 



Silvery-leaved shrubs with deciduous stipules. Flowers purple, rosy, 

 or bluish white. 



Virgilia.— Legume flattened, woolly, stuffed between the 

 seeds. Calyx silky. Flowers rosy purple. Leaves ex-stipulate. 



V. capensis. Lam., the Wilde Keureboom, is a tree found along river- 

 sides throughout the Colony. Leaves compound. Leaflets becoming 

 smooth above, woolly, and rolled beneath. 



AA. Stamens monadelphous, forming a split tube. Shrubs 

 or herbs with simple or palmately compound leaves. 



Crotalaria. — Legume swollen (not flat) keel sharply 

 beaked. Style long, sharply bent. Legume turgid. 



A large genus of shrubs with simple or compound leaves, and yellow, 

 rarely purple flowers, in few-flowered racemes. 



Aspalathus. — Calyx nearly regular. Flowers usually 

 yellow. 



Shrubby plants with heath-like tufted leaflets on a prominent cushion 

 which is often spine-pointed. The stems are often pale with brown mark- 

 ings. 



AAA. Stamens diadelphous. Ovary i-ovuled. 



Psoralea. — Calyx concealing the pod, the lower lobe 

 longer and broader than the others. Flowers purple, blue, or 

 white. 



A large genus of shrubs or herbs, with pinnate or trifoliate leaves, 

 rarely one foliate, with stipules, and commonly marked with black 

 resinous dots. Strongly scented. Common, often along water-courses. 



