268 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



leaves simple, very shortly petiolate, articulated at base ; stipules 

 subulate persistent ; flowers 1 in simple slender axillary racemes, each 

 solitary in axil of a narrow bract ; bractlets ( Western tropical Africa'). 



70. Carmicheelia E. Br. 3 — Receptacle minute concave, sparingly 

 glandular within. Calyx gamosepalous ; teeth nearly equal or 

 superior smaller, imbricated in aestivation, finally subvalvate. 

 Standard orbicular unguiculate ; wings oblong free, usually shorter 

 than standard ; keel curved or vaulted, obtuse, longer or shorter than 

 standard. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous; 9 connate into a sheath cleft 

 above; vexillary stamen free, usually smaller; anthers uniform. 

 Germen shortly stipitate, cc-ovulate, curved glabrous ; stigma 

 minute terminal. Legume usually short, compressed, ovate or 

 oblong, elliptical, terminated by the style ; sutures more or less 

 thickened ; valves separating from persistent margins. Seeds oo 

 usually few, exarillate ; embryo fleshy ; radicle long, folded double. — 

 Shrubs or small trees ; branches rush- or cladode-like ; leaves either 

 perfect imparipinnate with 3- co small obcordate leaflets, or reduced 

 to minute scales ; stipules small membranous ; flowers 4 shortly pedicel- 

 late, racemose ; racemes short, solitary or fascicled at lateral nodes ; 

 bracts small ; bractlets inserted at a variable height on pedicel or 

 under flower {New Zealand' 3 ). 



77. Notospartiuin Hook, f. 6 — Flowers of Carmichalia; teeth 

 of calyx short, nearly equal. Germen sessile, oo-ovulate ; style 

 curved, longitudinally bearded within ; apex hooked inflexed, 

 stigmatiferous. Legume linear piano-compressed, membranous be- 

 tween vein-like sutures, septate within between seeds, indehiscent. 

 Seeds compressed exarillate.— A small tree ; twigs rush-like pendulous, 

 leafless on anthesis ; scales minute at nodes ; flowers 7 in lateral 

 racemes at nodes ; bracts and bractlets minute (New Zealand). 



78. Colutea T. s — Receptacle wide depressed, lined by a disk. 



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R p d. 4 Pink or white, spotted or striped with lilac. 



2 Species 2 (or 1 with 2 varieties). Benth., 5 s pec i es 9. R AO rrL, Ch. de PL de la N.-ZeL, 



in Trans. Linn. Soc, xxv. 297, t. 33 A, B. t. 2S.— Hook. F., Handb. N. Zeal. Fl , 4-8. 



[Baker (in Oliv.Fl. Trop. Afr., ii. 132) gives a 6 In Hook. Jour,,., ix. 176, t. 3 ; Handb. N. 



third species or variety]. Zeal. FL, 51.— B. H., Gen., 502, 11. 120. 



* R. Be., in Hot. Reg., t. 912.— Endl., Gen , 7 <• pj„ij p» 



n. 6568.— B. H., Gen., 502, n. 119. * Inst., 619, t. 418; Cor., 44.— L., Gen., 



