342 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



minute capitate. Legume sessile or stipitate, piano-compressed, with 

 slender or thickened sutures, continuous or callous between seeds, 

 2-valvecl. Seeds unequally oblong, glabrous ; funicle dilated at apex 

 into a fleshy aril of variable form. — Shrubs or undershrubs, sometimes 

 leafless ; branches terete compressed or 2-winged cladodiform, 1 rarely 

 subangular ; leaves alternate or opposite, simple, or reduced to scales ; 

 stipules minute (dark-coloured) or ; flowers 2 solitary axillary ; bracts 

 at base of pedicels minute, often dry, imbricate ; bractlets 2, almost 

 like bracts, inserted on pedicel (Australia 3 ). 



225. Platylobium Sm. 4 — Calyx-lobes very unequal; 2 superior 

 very large, free or connate ; 3 inferior small or very small, connate 

 into a 3-dentate or 3-fid lip. Corolla almost of Bossiaa ; keel shorter 

 than wings, obtuse. Stamens 10, 1-adelphous ; filaments connate 

 into a sheath cleft above ; anthers uniform versatile. Germen sessile, 

 ovules go ; style incurved subulate ; apex minute stigmatiferous. 

 Legume sessile or stipitate, piano-compressed, continuous within ; 

 2-valved, valves flat, on dehiscence bending elastically back to 

 longitudinally winged superior suture. Seeds arillate. — Shrubs ; 

 branches opposite thin, leaves opposite simple ; stipules small ; 

 flowers 5 solitary or more rarely few ; axillary bract rigid dry imbri- 

 cated at base of flower ; bractlets 2, resembling bracts, lateral under 

 flower (Australia 6 ). 



226. Templetonia R. Br. 7 — Receptacle shortly concave oblique. 

 Calyx gamosepalous ; lobes or teeth 4, unequal (2 posterior connate, 

 more rarely distinct) ; aestivation imbricate. Petals much exserted ; 

 standard ovate or orbicular, often refiexed; wings narrow, often 

 shorter, keel equal to or shorter than wings, obtuse. Stamens 10, 

 ] -adelphous ; filaments connate into a sheath cleft above ; anthers 5 



1 See p. 220, fig. 192. 473, n. 33.—? Cheilococca Salisb., Prodr., 412 



2 Yellow, red, or purple- variegated, (ex Sm.). 



3 Species 34. Sm., in Trans. Linn. Soc, ix. 5 Yellow. 



302.— R. Bn., in Ait. Hort. Kew.,ed.2,W. 266.— 6 Species 3. Sm., Pot. Nov.- Roll., t. 6 — 



Bonpl., Jard. Malmais., t. 52.— Sweet, Fl. Vent., Jard. Malmais.. t. 31. — R. Br., in Ait. 



Austral., t. 9, 20, 51.— Hook, v., Ft. Tasm., t. Hort. Ketc, ed. 2, iv. 166.— BBNTH.,.FZ. Austral., 



16.— Andr., Pot. Repos., t. 191, 205, 276.— ii. 152.— Pot. Mag., t. 469, 1503, 1520, 3258. 



Benth., Fl. Austral., ii. 154. — Pot. Reg., t. 3259. 



306 ; (1841), t. 55 ; (1843), t. 63.— Pot. Mag., 7 j n A it. Hort. Kew., ed. 2, iv. 269.— DC, 



t. 1144, 1233, 1235, 1266, 1493, 1652, 2491, Prodr., ii. 118.— Endl., Gen., n. 6157.— B. H., 



3895, 3986. Gen., 474, n. 35. — Xematophylhun F. Muell., 



4 In Trans. Linn. Soc, ii. 350 — DC, Prodr., in Hook. Journ., ix. 20. 

 ii. 116.— Exdl., Gen., n. 6454.— B. H., Gen., 



