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vexillary stamen more or less connate with remainder; tube usually 

 closed at commencement of anthesis, often abruptly constricted a 

 little above base ; anthers small, uniform or 5 alternate affixed 

 higher than remainder. Germen articulated at base ; ovule 1 , campy- 

 lotropous descending ; style filiform or dilated at base, curved above ; 

 apex capitate stigmatiferous. Fruit ovate dry indehiscent, sur- 

 rounded by persistent calyx. Seed exarillate j 1 embryo fleshy ; radicle 

 superior inflexed accumbent. — Shrubs, undershrubs, or herbs, 

 sprinkled with black or pellucid glands ; leaves pinnate or digitate 

 3- cc -folio! ate, more rarely 1-foliolate; stipules broad, embracing 

 stem at base ; flowers 2 capitate spicate or subracemose ; inflorescences 

 pedunculate axillary or (the floral leaves being reduced to bracts) 

 crowded in compound terminal spikes ; bracts membranous, 1-3- 

 flowered ; bractlefcs {Temperate regions of Europe, Asia, North and 

 South America, and nor Hi em Africa; southern Africa, Australia*). 



i)S. Dalea L. 4 — Teeth or lobes of calyx 5, usually nearly equal, 

 and persistent accrescent round fruit, often plumose. Petals often 

 adnate to base of staminal tube; standard often altogether free, 

 subcordate ; claw tapering ; wings and keel about equal to or longer 

 than standard. Stamens 10, or 9 (vexillary stamen absent), 1- 

 adelphous, connate close to base into a dilated cup ; sheath a little 

 higher longitudinally cleft above ; anthers uniform, often surmounted 

 by a gland. Germen sessile or shortly stipitate ; ovules 2, or more 

 rarely 3, 4, descending ; style subulate, often hollow tubular ; apex 

 evenly truncate or scarcely dilated, stigmatiferous. Legume included 

 by calyx and receptacle, membranous, usually 1 -seeded, indehiscent. 

 Seed oblong or reniform, exarillate. — Herbs or undershrubs, often 

 sprinkled with glandular dots ; leaves imparipinnate, sometimes 

 minutely stipellate ; leaflets co or more rarely 3, very rarely 1 ; 

 stipules small, usually subulate ; flowers 5 in terminal or oppositi- 



1 " Often adhering to pericarp." Afr., ii. 64.— Bot. Reg., t. 223, 453, 454, 968, 



2 White, blue, or purple. 1769, 1971.— Bot. Mag., t. 446, 665, 990, 1727, 



3 Species about ICO. Jacq., Ic. liar., t. 2063, 2090, 2158.— Waxp., Eep., i. 655; ii. 

 562; Hvrt. Vindob., t. 184; Sort. Sehoenbr., t. 856; v. 513; Ann., i. 230; ii. 361; iv. 486. 

 223-230.— K., Mimos., t. 54.— Vent., Jard. * Sort. CVffort., 363, t. 22 (nee Gjjbtn., 

 Malm., t. 94.— Sibtu., Fl. Grac., t. 738.— nee P. Bk.).— DC, Prodr., ii. 244.— Endl., 

 Hook., Fl. Bor.-Amer,, t. 51-53.— Hook. & Gen., n. 6523.— B. H., Gen., 493, n. 88.— Paro- 

 Aen., Beech. Yoy., Bot., t. 80.— Haev.&Sond., sella Cat., Flench. Sort. Matrit.— Cylipogon 

 Fl. Cap., ii. 143.— Haev., Thes. Cap., t. 80.— Bafin. (part.), ex Endl.— Trichopodium Pkesl, 

 Benxu., Fl. Austral., ii. 189. — H. Bn., Adan- Bot. Bern., 52 (nee Lindl.). 



sonia, ix. ^33, 291. — Bakee, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. 3 Whitish, blue, purplish, or more rarely yellow. 



