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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



accompanied by two subulate lateral stipules, often caducous. The 

 flowers are pedunculate in the axils of the leaves, usually solitary 

 or geminate ; rarely more numerous. 



This series contains twenty-six genera. Two are South African 



and only contain shrubs, viz., Podalyria and Cyclopia. Five are 



natives of the northern hemisphere and possess herbaceous leaves, 



viz., Baptisia, Thermopsis, Anayyris, Pipfant/tus, and Pickerinyia. 



The other nineteen genera are Australian, often comprising 



little shrubs, with coriaceous persistent 

 leaves. They are as follows : Brachysema, 

 Jansonia, Oxylobium, Chorizcma, holropis, 

 Gompholobium, Mirbelia, Burtonia, Jack- 

 sonia, Sphcerolobium, Ptminaria, Davicsia, 

 Aotus, Phyllota, Gastrolobitim, Pultcnaa, 

 Ijilaria, Dilhcynia, and Latrobea. 



SopJwra (Styphnolobium) japon'ca. 



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X. SOPHOKA SERIES. 





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Sop/iora 1 (figs. 195, 1 96) has irregular re- 

 supinate hermaphrodite flowers. The con- 

 cave receptacle is lined by a glandular disk, 

 on whose rim is inserted a calyx divided 

 into five equal or slightly unequal teeth, 

 imbricated in the bud. The petals, alter- 

 nate with these, have a similar perigynous 

 insertion, and a vexillary aistivation. 

 The standard is obovate or orbicular, erect 

 or spreading, shorter or longer in the keel. 

 The wings are oblique and elongated. The 

 keel is oblong, nearly straight ; its two pe- 

 tals are united edge to edge, or else one 

 Partial lon^itudmai overlaps the other below. Of the ten free or 



section of fruit (f ). x 



nearly free stamens five are superposed to 

 the calyx lobes ; their anthers are versatile introrse two-celled, de- 



Fig. 195. 



Fruit. 



Fig. 196. 



Be., in Ait. Sort. Kew., ed. 2, iii. 6. — Haey. 

 & Sokd., Fl. Cap., ii. 9.— Bot. Reg., t. 869.— 

 Rot. Mag., t. 753, 1580. 



1 L., Gen., n. 508.— J., Gen., 352.— G.eetn., 

 Fruct., ii. 320, t. 149.— Lamk., Diet., vii. 228, 



Suppl., v. 163.— DC, Prodr., ii. 95. — Spach, 

 Suit, a Ruffon, i. 160.— Endl., Gen., n. 6738.— 

 B. H., Gen., 555, 1002, n. 273. — Patrinia 

 Rafin., in Journ. Phi/s., lxxxix. 97 (ex Endl.). — 

 Radiusia Reichb., Consp., 148. 



