LEGTJMIN0SM-FAPILI0NACE31. 345 



concave, lanceolate, or (the innermost) setaceous ; bractlets setaceous 

 caducous 1 {South Africa 1 ). 



231. Amphithalea Eckl. & Zeth. 3 — Calyx narrow; lobes or 

 teeth all 5 subequal, or 2 superior connate rather high and broader. 

 Petals often narrowed at base ; standard obovate ovate or orbicular ; 

 wings oblong ; keel pretty straight, spurred or gibbous on both 

 sides, obtuse at apex. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1); anthers 5 

 alternate smaller versatile ; 5 others subbasifixed longer. Germen 

 sessile, ovules 1 or few ; style incurved ; apex minute stigmatiferous. 

 Legume ovate or oblong, compressed, continuous within, 1- or few- 

 seeded, 2-valved. Seeds arillate. — Shrubs, glabrous or more fre- 

 quently silky-villous, usually heath-like; leaves alternate simple 

 entire exstipulate ; flowers 4 in crowded leafy spikes, or axillary 

 often paired; pedicels 0, or very short, 1-bracteate {South Africa*). 



232. Lathriogyne Eckl. & Zeyh. 6 — Flowers nearly of Amphi- 

 thalea; corolla shorter than calyx; keel beaked, gibbous on both 



sides. Germen sessile ; ovule 1. Legume ? Other parts 



of Amphithalea. — A silky-villous heath-like shrub ; leaves alternate 

 simple entire; flowers crowded in terminal leafy capitula {South 

 Africa 7 ). 



233. Ccelidium Vog. 8 — Flowers nearly of Amphithalea ; keel 

 pretty straight obtuse. Stamens 10, 1-adelphous; filaments connate 

 into a sheath cleft above ; anthers of 2 kinds. Germen sessile ; 

 ovule I. Legume ovate rather acute 2-valved; seed arillate. — 

 Silky-villous heath-like shrubs ; leaves simple (of Amphithalea) ; 

 flowers 9 crowded in a terminal head, or axillary, often paired ; pedicels 

 very short, 1-bracteolate {South Africa 10 ). 



1 Decandolle divides this genus into the fol- 4 Pink or purple, usually small. 



lowing 2 sections : 1. Isothea : base of calyx 5 Species 9. DC, Mem. Legum., t. 31 (Priest- 



pushed up ; keel beaked ; 2. Anisothea : base leya). — Habv. & Sond., Fl. Cap., ii. 21. 



of calyx not pushed up, or tapering obconical ; 6 Enum., 170. — Endl., Gen., n. 6466. — 



keel not beaked (Xyphoteca Eckl. & Zeyh., Heudiisa E. Mey., Cumm. PI. Jfrio. Austr., 



Enum., 166). 153. 



2 Species 15. Thunb., Fl. Cap., 565 (Li- 7 Species 1. L. parvifolia Eckl. & Zeyh., 

 paria). — Keb, in But. Reg., t. 8. — Andb., Bot. loc. cit. — Habv. & Sond., Fl. Cap., ii. 5«J3. — 

 Repos., t. 382. — Habv. & Sond., Fl. Cap., ii. Heudrna decipiens E. Mey., loc. cit. 



16. — Bot. Mag., t. 382, 3216. 8 Ex Walp., in Linncea, xiii. 172. — Kndl., 



3 Enum., 167.— Endl., Gen., n. 6465.— Gen., n. 6467.— B. H., Gen., 473, n. 31. 

 Ingenhoussia E. Mey., Comm. Pl.Afric. Austr., 9 Pink, purple, or yellow, usually small. 



20. — Cryphiantha EcKi. &Zr.YU.,op. cit., 171. — 10 Species 8. Habv. &, Sond., Fl. Cap., ii. 



Epistemum Walp., in Linnaa, xiii. 473. 24. 



