270 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



80. Swainsona Salisb.' — Flowers almost those of Sutherlandia ; 

 teetli of calyx 5, nearly equal or 2-superior connate to a greater 

 height. Standard orbicular or reniforra, patent or reflexed, bare or 

 with 2 callosities within above claw ; wings falcate-oblong or a little 

 twisted. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1). Grermen sessile orstipitate, 

 oo -ovulate ; style curved or involute (Cycloyyne 2 ), longitudinally 

 bearded above and within or more rarely dorsally ; stigma terminal 

 small, minutely capitate or oblique (Spharophysa 3 ). Legume of 

 Sutherlandia or Colutea, scarcely dehiscent or 2-valved ; seminiferous 

 suture slightly or much intruded (Diplolobiuni 4 ). Seeds subreniform 

 exarillate. — Herbs or undershrubs, glabrous or pilose ; leaves im- 

 paripinnate ; leaflets 3-<» , exstipellate ; stipules small or setaceous, 

 or broad herbaceous at base ; flowers 5 in axillary racemes ; bracts 

 small ; bractlets sometimes appressed to flowers and persistent, some- 

 times minute caducous or {Australia, New Zealand, 6 the East, 

 Russian Asia, China 1 ). 



81? Lessertia DC. S — Flowers of Sutherlandia or Swainsona; 

 standard suborbicular, patent or reflexed, bare within ; keel straight 

 or curved ; wings and keel usually shorter than standard, stamens 

 10, 2-adelphous (9-1) ; anthers uniform. Grermen sessile or stipitate, 

 co -ovulate ; style curved subulate, bearded at back or all round at 

 apex below stigma; bare or shortly bearded within. Legume of 

 variable form, usually oblong, sometimes thin membranous com- 

 pressed, sometimes inflated, 9 widely dehiscent or 2-valvate at apex. 

 Seeds funiculate reniform exarillate. — Herbs or undershrubs ; leaves 

 imparipinnate exstipellate ; stipules small ; flowers 10 in axillary pedun- 



Hary. & Sond., FL Cap., ii. 212. — 8. micro- 4 F. Mttell., in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinh., vii. 



phylla Buech., ex DC, in Icon. Deless., iii. 41, 489. 



t. 71. — Colutea frutescens L., Spec, 1045. — s Red, yellowish, or white. 



Bckm., FL Cap. Prodr., 22.— Mill., Icon., 6 Benth., FL Austral., ii. 215— Axdk., Bot. 



t. 99.— DC, Astray., 43.— Bot. Mag., t. 181. Rep., t. 319.— Hook, f., Handb. N. Zeal. FL, 



1 Farad. Lond., t. 28.— DC, Prodr.,\\. 271.— 51.— Bot. Reg., t. 991; (1846), t. 26.— Bot. 



Endl., Gen., n. 6562.— B. H., Gen., 504, Mag., t. 792 (Swainsona). 



n. \2Q.—Loxidium Vent., Bee. Gen. Nov., ex " Trautv., Fl. Russ., t. 33. — Jaub. & Spacjt, 



DC (incl.: Cyclogyne Benth., Diplolobiuni F. ///. FL Orient., i. 126, t. 64. — Waib., Rep., ii. 



Muell., Sphatrophysa DC [? Fhyllolobhim 860 (Spharophysa). 



Fisch., in DC, Frodr., ii. 521]). 8 Astragal., 37 ; M&m. Legum., t. 16 ; Prodr., 



* Benth., in Lindl. Swan Rh\ App., 16. ii. 271. — Endl., Gen., n. (J5G3. — B. H., Gen., 



3 DC, Mem. Legum., 288; Prodr., ii. 271.— 503, n. 125. 



Endl., Gen., n. 6569. — B. H., Gen., 504, u. 127. 9 Whence this genus ought hardly to be dis- 



(Though Sphcerophysa and Swainsona are sepa- tinguished from Swainsona. 



rated by all authors, we can see no generic distinc- 10 White, pink, or oftener red. 

 tion between them.) 



