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culate racemes ; bracts small ; bractlets minute or {Southern 

 Africa 1 ): 



82. Clianthus Soland. 2 — Calyx gamosepalons ; lobes elongated, 

 nearly equal or 2 superior broader. Corolla (of Chadsia) elongated ; 

 standard acuminate, closely reflexed, wings shorter than standard, 

 falcate-lanceolate ; keel erect curved, acute or long narrow, about 

 equal to or longer than standard. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1) ; 

 anthers uniform. Germen stipitate ; ovules co ; style subulate 

 curved, longitudinally bearded above and within ; apex minutely 

 capitate or not thickened, stigmatiferous. Legume oblong curved 

 acuminate, much stuffed within between seeds, 2-valved. Seeds 

 reniform exarillate. — Herbs or undershrubs, erect or subscandent ; 

 leaves imparipinnate ; stipules herbaceous ; flowers 3 in axillary, some- 

 times umbelliform racemes ; bracts and bractlets subpersistent 

 {Australia, New Zealand/). 



S3. Eremosparton Fisch. & Mey. 5 — Calyx gamosepalous ; teeth 

 5, nearly equal. Standard broadly orbicular, emarginate reflexed ; 

 wings falcate-oblong; keel curved obtuse. Stamens 10 ; 9 connate; 

 vexillary stamen free ; anthers uniform. Germen sessile oc -ovulate ; 

 style curved, slightly bearded dorsally below terminal stigma (like 

 Vicia). Legume broad short falcate membranous piano-compressed, 

 rather turgid, 2-valved. Seeds 1 or few, reniform exarillate. — A 

 shrub or undershrub, branches leafless (rush-like) slender; scales 

 distant alternate, representing leaves ; flowers 6 racemose, bracteate, 

 articulated at base, 2-bracteolate below calyx ; racemes loose elongated 

 slender; peduncles at axils of scales {Caspian 1 ). 



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Indigofera L. 8 — Keceptacle very short or scarcely concave. 



1 Species about 30. Jacq,, Hort. Sclicenbr., 

 t. 222 (Vicia); Icon. Ear., t. 576 (Galega) ; 

 Hort. Vindob., iii. t. 3 (Colutea).— R. Br., in 

 Ait. Hort. Keiv., ed. 2, ix. 327.— Hook., Exot. 

 Fl, t. 84.— Deless., Icon. Select., iii. 39, t. 69, 

 70.— Rot. Reg., t. 970.— But. Mag., t. 2064.— 

 Haey. & Sond., Fl. Cap. ii. 213. 



2 Ex Lindl., in Trans. Hort. Soc. Loml., 

 ser. 2, i. 519, t. 22. — Endl., Gen., n. 656? 

 (part.) — B. H., Gen., 503, n. 122. — Donia 

 Don (G.), Gen. Syst., ii. 467. — Eremocharis 

 R. Br., in App. Sturt Voy., 10. 



3 Red, or with the standard blackish-purple 

 spotted ; pendulous, large. 



4 Species 2. Lixdl. & Paxt., Fl. Gard., 

 t. 10. — Woodw., in Damp. Toy., iii. Ill, fig. 1. — 

 Benth., Fl. Austral., ii. 214. — Hook. v.. Kandb. 

 N. Zeal. FL, 52.—Bot. Reg., t, 177 o.— Rot. 

 Mag., t. 3584, 5051. 



5 Enum. PI. Schrenck, 75. — B. II., Gi »., 504, 

 n. 125. 



6 " Small, violet, distant," 

 1 Walp., Rep., ii. 860. 



s Gen., n. 889. — J., Gen., 359.- G/icutx., 



