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reduced to minute scales (Zeptosema 1 ), or simple, alternate or opposite, 

 often silky ; stipules narrow ; flowers 2 solitary or few at ends of 

 twigs in axils of leaves, more rarely crowded on short radicle scapes 

 (Western and tropical Australia?). 



243 ? Jansonia Kipp. 4 — Calyx oblique gamosepalous, cleft behind ; 

 lobes 5, very unequal ; posterior 2 very small ; anterior 1 longer 

 than laterals. Petals unequal, at base adnate to staminal tube ; 

 standard minute, long- tapering at base ; limb folded back ; wings 

 oblong, longer than standard ; keel still longer, with its petals free. 

 Stamens 10 at base 1 or 2-adelphous (9-1), finally free; anthers 

 uniform. Germen sessile ; ovules o> ; style filiform elongated stigma 

 minute terminal. Legume .... ? — A shrub ; leaves simple opposite ; 

 stipules subulate ; flowers 5 included before anthesis in a 2-seriately 

 decussate 4-leaved involucre ; capitula terminal sessile nutant (South 

 Australia 6 ). 



244. Oxylobium Andr. 7 — Calyx-lobes 5, united to a variable 

 height, imbricate ; 2 superior often broader, joined higher, valvate by 

 superior margins. Petals unguiculate ; standard orbicular or reniform, 

 with usually short claw; wings nearly equal to keel. Stamens 10, 

 free ; anthers uniform. Germen inserted in bottom of disk, sessile 

 or stipitate, 2- co-ovulate ; style thin subulate, apex scarcely- or un- 

 dilated, stigmatiferous. Legume oblong or ovoid turgid, sessile or 

 shortly (more rarely, in Podolobium 9 long-) stipitate, within either 

 continuous, or thin-stuffed or more rarely subseptate 9 between seeds. 

 Seeds long-funiculate, arillate or exarillate. — Shrubs or undershrubs ; 

 leaves simple petiolate 2-stipulate, alternate, or oftener opposite or 

 verticillate. Flowers 10 in terminal or axillary racemes, or more 



1 Benth., in Ann. Wien. Mus.,\\. 84; Fl, 

 Austral., ii. 12.— Bot. Mag., t. 4481.— Kale 

 niczenkia Turcz., in Bull. Mosc. (1853), i. 252.— 

 Burgesia F. Mttell., Fragm. Phyt. Austral., i 

 222 (nee Sieb. & Zircc). — H.Bn., in Adansonia 

 ix. 297, t. vii. 



2 Red, rarely nearly black or greenish yellow 



3 Species about 14. Benth., Fl. Austral., ii 

 10.— Bot. Reg., t. 118, 642.— Bot. Mag., t. 

 2008, 4652.— Walp., Ann., ii. 308 ; v. 452. 



4 In Trans. Linn. Soc, xx. 384, t. 16. — 

 B. H., Gen., 467, n. 8. — Cryptosema Meissn., 

 in PI. Preiss., ii. 207. 



5 " Red." 



6 Species 1. J. formosa Kipp., loc. cif.— 

 Benth., Fl. Austral., ii. 8. — Walp., Ann., ii. 

 308. 



7 Bot. Repos., t. 492.— DC, Prodr.. ii. 10 1.— 

 Endl., Gen., n. 6427.— B. H., Gen., 467, n. 10. 



8 R. Bb., in Ait. Hort. Keu\, ed. 2, iii. 9. — 

 DC, Prodr., ii. 103.— Endl., Gen., n. 6428. 



9 Vent., Jard. Malmais., t. 115. — DC, 

 Prodr., ii. 104.— Endl., Gen., n. 6426. — Calli- 

 stachya Sm., in Trans. Linn. Soc, ix. 266. 



10 Yellow or purple-variegated. 



