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alternate shorter versatile ; 5 others longer basifixed. Grermen sessile 

 or stipitate, 2-co -ovulate ; style subulate incurved ; stigma terminal. 

 Legume oblong or linear, compressed 2-valved, within continuous 

 coriaceous. Seeds arillate ; funicle short. — Shrubs or undershrubs, 

 sometimes leafless ; leaves usually simple, articulated at base ; 

 stipules 2 lateral minute ; flowers' racemose, often few ; bracts im- 

 bricated at base of pedicel ; bractlets inserted on pedicel, almost like 

 bracts (Australia'). 



227. Hovea R,. Br. 3 — Receptacle shortly cupuliform glandular 

 within. Calyx gamosepalous ; lobes or teeth valvate in bud, very 

 unequal ; 3 inferior short narrow, usually subequal ; 2 superior 

 much larger connate into a truncate or emarginate broad lip. Petals 

 unequal ; standard broadly suborbicular ; wings obliquely obovate ; 

 keel obtuse much longer than standard. Stamens 10, all connate 

 into a sheath cleft above or above and below ; 1 vexillary sometimes 

 free or nearly so (Plagiolobium 4 ), usually connate with rest ; 1 superior 

 (alternipetalous) sometimes also nearly free ; 5 oppositipetalous 

 anthers shorter versatile, 5 others longer basifixed. Grermen sessile 

 or substipitate ; apex tapering into an incurved style ; stigma 

 terminal. Ovules oo or more frequently 2, descending, micropyle 

 superior extrorse. Legume sessile or stipitate, turgid short, globular 

 ovoid, or ovoid-rhomboidal often oblique at base, continuous within, 

 2-valvcd. Seeds 1 or more, arillate funiculate. — Shrubs, unarmed 

 or spiny ; leaves alternate simple ; stipules small or ; flowers 5 

 axillary or fascicled, more rarely irregularly racemose on a developed 

 branch ; bracts and bractlets small or (Australia*). 



228. Goodia Salisb. 7 — Calyx 2-labiate; upper lip shortly 2- 

 dentate ; lower partite into 3 narrow subequal lobes. 8 Standard 

 suborbicular ; wings very unsymmetrical ; keel incurved obtuse. 



1 Yellow, red, or purple-variesated. s Blue or purplish. 



2 Species 7. Vent., Jard. Malmais., t. 53.— 6 Species 11. Bonpl., Jard. Malmais., t. 

 Bot. Beg.,t. 383, 859.— Bot. Mag., t. 2088, 51.— Sweet, Fl. Austral.,t. 13.— Hueg., Arch. 

 2334.— Benth., Fl. Austral., ii. 168. Bot., t. 7.— Hook. F., Fl. Ta.sm., t. lb.— Bot. 



3 In Ait. Jlort. Kezv., ed. 2, iv. 275.— DC. Beg., t. 280, 463, 614, 1423, 1427, 1512, 1524; 

 Prodr., ii. 115.— Endl., Gen., n. 6451.— B. H., (1838), t. 62 ; (1843), t. 4; (1844), t, 58.— Bot. 

 Gen., 474, n. 36.— Poiretla Sm., in Trans. Linn. Mag., t. 1624, 2005, 3053. 



Soc, ix. 304 (nee Vent.). — Platychilum De- 7 Parad. Bond., t. 11.— Kmh., Gen., n. 



latin., Herb. Amat., t. 87 '.— Phuncarpos Poir., 6456.— DC, Prodr., ii. 117.— B. II., Gen., 174, 



Bid., Suppl., iv. 399. n. 37. 



4 Sweet, Fl. Austral., t. 2. 8 Fairly imbricate when young. 



