LEGUMINOS&-PAPILIONACEJE. 



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acute compressed, continuous within, 2-valvecl ; placentary suture 

 marginate or narrowly winged. Seeds 1- oo exarillate. — Shrubs or 

 undershrubs, glabrous (often glaucescent) ; leaves simple entire ex- 

 stipulate ;' flowers 2 racemose or solitary terminal, or solitary in 

 axils of leaf-like bracts ; bractlets leafy or {South Africa?). 



222. Euchlora Eckl. & Zeyh. 4 — Flowers nearly of Rafnia, 

 smaller ; receptacle gibbous behind ; 2 superior calyx-lobes a little 

 the larger. Legume ovoid subturgid few-seeded 2-valved. — A peren- 

 nial 5 prostrate villose herb ; leaves simple exstipulate ; flowers 6 in a 

 short dense terminal raceme. Other parts of Rafnia {South Africa 1 ). 



223. Borbonia L. s — Calyx-lobes 5, subequal, acute or pungent. 

 Petals more or less villous externally; standard suborbicular or obovate, 

 keel incurved obtuse, usually with a rather prominent fold on both 

 sides. Stamens and pistil of Rafnia. Legume linear or lanceolate, ob- 

 liquely acute, compressed, continuous within, 2-valved; placentary 

 suture bare marginate ; valves coriaceous convex. Seeds 1-qo exaril- 

 late. — Shrubs or undershrubs, glabrous or somewhat villous ; leaves 

 simple entire rigid coriaceous, oo-ribbed exstipulate ; flowers 9 soli- 

 tary, racemose or capitate, terminal or leaf-opposed ; bracts and 

 bractlets coriaceous or setaceous {South Africa} ). 



224. Boisssea Vent. 11 — Eeceptacle slightly concave ; calyx mem- 

 branous 5-lobed ; 2 superior lobes, much larger than rest, connate 

 to a variable height into a lip. Petals unequal ; standard broadly 

 orbicular or reniform reflexed ; wings unequally oblong, keel obtuse. 

 Stamens, connate into a sheath cleft above ; anthers uniform. Germen 

 sessile or stipitate, few or co-ovulate ; style uncurved ; stigma 



1 Either 1-ribbed or net-veined, in Vascoa 

 broadly amplexicaul. 



2 Yellow. 



3 Species about 22. Vent., Jard. Malmais., 

 t. 48. — Deless., Icon. Set., iii. 37, t. 62.— 

 Haev., Thes. Cap., t. 71, 72. — Haev. & Sond., 

 FL Cap., ii. 31.— Bot. Mag., t. 482. 



4 1. Enum., 171. — Endl., Gen., n. 6484. — 

 B. H., Gen., 475, n. 40. — Microtropis E. Mey., 

 Comm. PL Afr. Austr., 65. 



5 With babit of Lotononis. 6 Purplish. 



7 Species 1. E. serpens Eckl. & Zeyh., loc. 

 cit. — Haev. & Sond., FL Cap., ii. 39. — Micro- 

 tropis hirsuta E. Mey., loc. cit. 



8 Gen., n. 857. — Lamk., Diet., i. 435; III., t. 

 619.— DC., Prodr., ii. 120.— Endl., Gen., n. 

 6461.— B. H., Gen., 475, n. 38. 



9 Yellow. 



10 Species 13. Jacq., Sort. Schcenor., ii. t. 

 217, 218.— E. Mey., Comm. PL Afr. Austr., 

 15.— Bot. Mag., t. 274, 2128.— Hakv. & Sond., 

 Fl. Cap., ii. 563. 



11 Jard. Cels., t. 7.— DC, Prodr., ii. 116.— 

 Endl., Gen., n. 6455. — B. H .,Gen., 473, n. 

 34. — Scottea R. Be., in A/,. Hor'. Kern., ed. 2, 

 iv. 269. — Lalage Lindl., in Bot. Reg., 1. 1722. — 

 Endl., Gen., n. 6453. 



