344 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Stamens 10, 1-adelphous ; 5 oppositipetalous shorter; sheath split 

 above ; anthers versatile uniform. Disk produced above receptacle 

 into a short sheath cleft above. Ovary stipitate pauciovulate ;* 

 funicle descending ; 2 style inflexed or incurved ; stigma terminal, 

 minutely capitate. Legume stipitate oblong-falcate piano-compressed; 

 continuous within, 2-valved ; sutures nerviform. Seeds arillate ; 

 funicle short. — Shrubs, glabrous or pubescent ; leaves pinnately 3- 

 foliolate ; leaflets quite entire, articulated at base ; stipules lateral, 

 transversely cut a little above base, very caducous ; flowers 3 in terminal 

 or leaf-opposed racemes ; bracts and bractlets caducous (Australia*). 



229. Liparia L. 5 — Flowers nearly of Templetonia ; calyx -lobes 

 5, very unequal ; 4 superior lanceolate ; lowest much larger, often 

 petaloid ; prsefloration imbricate. Keel with lateral appendage. 

 Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1); anthers all uniform subbasifixed, or 

 alternate 5 a little shorter. Germen sessile ; ovules few ; style 

 slender ; apex minutely stigmatiferous. Legume oblong or obovate 

 confessed, continuous within, 2-valved. Seeds few arillate. — 

 Shrubs 6 usually villous or silky ; leaves alternate simple entire coria- 

 ceous ; flowers 7 capitate terminal ; bracts broad imbricate forming 

 an involucre (South Africa 9 ). 



230. Priestleya DC. 9 — Flowers of Liparia; calyx-lobes subequal, 

 lowest a little longer. Germen sessile ; ovules 2-x> ; style subu- 

 late ; apex entire or 2-dentate, stigmatiferous. Legume oblong or 

 broadly linear-oblong, compressed, continuous within, 2-valved ; 

 valves coriaceous flat or convex. Seeds 1-qo arillate. — Shrubs, 

 usually silky or villous ; leaves simple exstipulate ; flowers 10 crowded 

 in terminal heads or racemes, more rarely axillary ; bracts ovate 



1 Ovules usually 2 or 3. 6 Turning black wlien dry. 



2 Ovule suspended by this, finally inflexed; " Yellow. 



micropyle introrse superior. s Species 4. Bukm., Fl. Cap. Prodr., 4 



3 Yellow, variegated with purple. (Leiicadendron).—LoDB., Bot. Cab., t. 642.— 



4 Species 2. Benth., Fl. Austral., ii. 117.— Ande., Bot. Repos., t. 568.— Bot. Mag., t. 

 Bot. Mag., t. 958, 1310.— An anomalous genus 1241, 4034.— Haet. & Sond., Fl. Cap., ii. 

 (according to Bentham), related by its (yellow) 14. 



flowers and legume to Bossiata, by its inflores- 9 In Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 1, iv. 90 ; Mem. 



cence to Crotalaria ,• but differing in its pin- Legum., 190, t. 29, 30, 32, 33; Prodr., ii. 121.— 



nately (non-digitately) trifoliolate leaves from all Endl., Gen., n. 6464.— H. H., Gen., 172, n. 27.— 



the Genistea. Achyronia Wexdl., Obs. Bot., 39 ; llorl. Her- 



5 Mantiss., n. 1319 (part.).— Lame., Diet., renhaus., i. t. 12.— DC, Prodr., ii. 121. 

 ii. 437. — DC, Prodr., ii. 121. — Endl., Gen., n. 10 Yellow 



6463.— B. H., Gen., 472, n. 27. 



