346 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



234. ? Walpersia Harv. & Sond. 1 — Flowers nearly of Ccelidium ; 

 " calyx-lobes of nearly same length, 2 superior broader, claws of petals 

 adnate at base to staminal tube. Stamens 1-adelphous. Germen 

 2-ovulate. — A much-branched villous shrub; leaves simple quite 

 entire, edges revolute ; flowers 2 pedicellate in axils of upper leaves ; 

 bractlets foliaceous below calyx" {South Africa). 



IX. PODALYEIE^G. 



235. Podalyria Lamk. — Eeceptacle subcampanulate, pushed in 

 at base, lined by a glandular disk. Calyx gamosepalous ; teeth or 

 lobes 5, subequal. Corolla papilionaceous ; standard orbicular, or 

 broadly cordate emarginate, a little longer than wings, rather thick 

 or glandular inside above short subrecurved claw ; wings obliquely 

 obovate ; keel broadly obovate incurved obtuse, shorter than wings. 

 Stamens 10, perigynous; filaments free or unequally connate at very 

 base ; anthers uniform. Germen sessile ; ovules oo ; style slender ; 

 apex minute stigmatiferous. Legume oblong or turgid 2-valved; 

 valves coriaceous ; seeds 1-co , arillate. — Silky or villous shrubs ; 

 leaves alternate simple, shortly petiolate or sessile ; stipules subulate, 

 often caducous ; flowers axillary pedunculate, solitary or in twos or 

 fours {South Africa). 



236. Cyclopia Vent. 3 — Flowers of Podalyria ; keel incurved ob- 

 tusely beaked. Legume oblong piano-compressed. Seeds oo, aril- 

 late. — Shrubs, glabrous or rather villous when young ; leaves shortly 

 petiolate or sessile, digitately 3-foliolate, rarely 1-foliolate ; peduncles 

 axillary, 1 -flowered, 4 2-bracteolate at base {South Africa"). 



237. Thermopsis E. Br. 6 — Eeceptacle shortly turbinate disci- 

 ferous within ; calyx-lobes 5 subequal or 2 posterior united for a 

 variable height. Standard suborbicular, subequal to wings, with 



1 Fl. Cap., ii. 26.— B. H., Gen., 473, n. 32. E. Met., Comm. PL Afric. Auslr., 3.— Ajtdb., 



2 "Yellow." BoL Eepos., t. 427.— Haev. & Sond., FL Cap., 



3 Dec. Gen. Nov., 8. — R. Be., in Ait. Eort. ii. 6. 



Kew., ed. 2, iii. 5.— DC, Prodr., ii. 101.— 6 Tn AiL EorL Kew> ed 2 , iii. 3.— DC, 



Eijdl., Gen., n. 6422.— B. H., Gen., 466, n. Frodr., ii. 99.— Endl., Gen., n. 6120.— B. H., 



Q.—Ibbetsonia Sims, in Bot. Mag., t. 1259. Gen., 465, n. Z.—Thermia Xutt.. Gen. Amer. 



4 Flowers yellow. i. 2 82. — Scolobus Rafix., in Journ. Fhys. 

 » Species 9. Eckl. & Zeth., Fnum., 153. — lxxxix. 89. 



