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211. Melolobium Eckl. & Zeyh. 1 — Flowers almost of Dichihs; 

 2 superior lobes of short calyx free or connate. Corolla and sexual 

 organs of Dichilus. Legume linear compressed, often torulose, 

 villous or glandular, continuous inside or with thin septa separating 

 seeds, 2-valved. — Branching shrubs or undershrubs, often spinescent, 

 glandular- villous or viscid ; leaves digitately 3-foliolate ; flowers 2 in 

 short terminal spikes or racemes ; bracts and bractlets often foliaceous 

 {South Africa*). 



212. Anarthrophyllum Benth. 4 — Calyx tubular; 2 superior 

 lobes nearly free ; lower more or less connate into a lip. Corolla of 

 Genista. Stamens 10, 1-adelphous ; filaments connate into a sheath 

 cleft longitudinally above ; anthers nearly uniform, or 5 shorter 

 versatile, 5 longer subbasifixed. Germen sessile ; ovules few ; 

 style incurved, apex capitate stigmatiferous. Legume oblique oblong 

 or rbomboidal, compressed cuspidate, continuous within, 2-valved. 

 Seeds funiculate exarillate. — Very bushy shrubs, often rigid heath- 

 like ; leaves small, subentire or 3-fid, often spinescent; stipules like 

 leaf-lobes, adnate to dilated subamplexicaul base of petiole ; flowers 5 

 solitary terminal, usually 2-bracteate {Extra- tropical South America 5 ). 



213. Aspalathus L. 7 — Calyx gamosepalous ; lobes usually elon- 

 gated, subequal or unequal. Corolla almost of Genista ; keel incurved, 

 obtuse or subrostrate. Stamens 10, 1-adelphous ; filaments connate 

 into a sheath split longitudinally above ; anthers 2-form ; 5 shorter 

 versatile, 5 longer subbasifixed. Germen sessile or stipitate ; 2- go- 

 ovulate ; style incurved glabrous ; stigma terminal minutely capitate 

 or oblique. Legume of variable form, oblique at base, obliquely 

 acute, compressed or somewhat turgid. Seeds 1 -co , funiculate 

 exarillate. — Shrubs or undershrubs, heath-like or spinescent, more 



1 Fnum. PI. Afr. Austr., 188.— Endl., Gen., ' Gen., n. 860. — J., Gen., 353. — G.ertn., 

 n. 6485.— B. H., Gen., 478, n. 50. — Sphingiwm Fruct., ii. 304, t. 144.— Lamk., Diet., i. 286 ; 

 E. Mey., Comm. PI. Afr. Austr., 65. Suppl., i. 482 ; III., t. 620.— DC, Prodr., ii. 



2 Small, yellow. 138.— Endl., Gen., n. 6482.— B. H., Gen., 478, 



3 Species 11. Haev. & Sond., Fl. Cap., ii. n. 47. — Sarcophyllits Thunb., Fl. Cap., 573. — 

 78. Sarcocalyx Walp., in Linnaa, xiii. 479. — 



4 Gen., 478, n. 49. Scaligera Adans., Fam. des PL, ii. 323. — 



5 " Yellow ?" Friocali/x Neck., Flem., n. 1331 (incl. : Cypho- 



6 Species 4 or 5. DC, Prodr., ii. 152, n. 75 calyx, Heterolathus, Pachyraphea, Paraspa- 

 (Genista). — Hook., But. Misc., iii. t. 103. — lath/us, Flagiostigma, Psilolepus, Trinvuria 

 CLOS.in C. GayFl. Chil., ii. 54.— Wali\, Rep., PujiSL, Bot'. Bern., 126, 131). 



i. 629 (Genista). 



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