LEGUMIN0S2E-PAPILI0NA CE. K. 



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plious stamens whose tube is split above, and arillate seeds. It con- 

 tains the genera Bossiaa (fig. 192), Platylobium, Tempklonia, Jlovca, 

 and Goodia. 



Podalyria Burchellii. 



w 



Fig. 193. 

 Flower (f ). 



X. PODALYRIA SERIES. 



Podalyria} (193, 194) has resupinate irregular hermaphrodite 

 flowers. The cup-shaped receptacle lined by a glandular disk is 

 elongated from before backwards. 2 From its 

 bottom springs the gymeceum, while the re- 

 maining organs of the flower are inserted round 

 its margin. The gamosepalous calyx forms a 

 thick sac dividing above into five teeth, equal 

 or slightly unequal, or lobes usually valvate in 

 the bud. The petals, which possess slender claws, 

 form a papilionaceous corolla of vexillary aestiva- 

 tion. The limb of the standard is broad, sub- 

 orbicular, often emarginate ; the wings rather 

 shorter, are irregularly and obliquely obovate ; 

 the keel is still shorter, incurved and obovate, obtuse at the apex. 

 The gynseceum consists of a nearly central sessile Podalyria PwcUim. 

 or subsessile ovary, surmounted by a style whose 

 apex is dilated into a little stigmatiferous head, 

 forming two vertical rows. Within the ovary 

 are an indefinite number of obliquely descending 

 subanatropous ovules whose micropyles look up- 

 wards and outwards. The fruit is a subglobular 

 ovoidal or oblong turgid coriaceous bivalved pod, 

 containing a variable number of incompletely 

 campylotropous seeds, often ascending, with their 

 micropyles downwards and outwards. The funicle 

 dilates at the hilum into a little fleshy aril. 

 This genus consists of some fifteen species of 

 shrubs from South Africa. 3 Nearly all their organs 

 are covered with down. The leaves are alternate simple petiolate, 



Fig. 194. 



Flower, perianth 



removed (-+-). 



1 Podalyria Lame., Diet., v. 440 (part.); 

 Suppl., iv. 442 ; III., t. 327, figs. 3, 4.— DC, 

 Prodr., ii. 101.— SpAcn, Suit, a Buffon, i. 1G7.— 

 Endl., Gen., n. 6423. — Benth., in Ann. Wien. 

 Mus., ii. 67.— B. H., Gen., 467, n. 1,—Aphora 

 Neck., Mem., n. 1370 (nee Nutt.). 



2 In many species the "calyx " (i.e., the recep- 

 tacle) well deserves its character of " I 

 mtrusus." 



3 Tiiunb., Prodr. Fl. Cap.,lQ ; Fl. Cap,. 568 

 (TTypccalypfus). — Salisb., Far. Lund., t. 7. — 

 W., Spec, 505.— Vent, Jard. Cels., t. 99.— B. 



