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rarely in dense false-corymbs ; bracts and 2 lateral bractlets inserted 

 at a variable height under calyx, very caducous {Australia 1 ). 



245. Chorizema Labill. 2 — Receptacle slightly concave, glandular 

 within. Calyx gamosepalous ; lobes 5 unequal or subequal ; 2 

 superior often joined higher than rest ; prsefloration valvate or im- 

 bricate. Petals unguiculate; standard orbicular or reniform ; wings 

 oblong ; keel much shorter than wings, straight or incurved. Stamens 

 10 free, all equal, or vexillary more slender, distant from rest. 

 Germen sessile or stipitate oc -ovulate; style incurved; stigma more 

 or less oblique. Legume ovoid, turgid or compressed continuous 

 within. Seeds go, reniform exarillate ; hilum rather distant from 

 micropyle ; funicle slender, rather long. — Shrubs or undershrubs ; 

 leaves simple, alternate or rarely opposite ; stipules minute or 

 setaceous ; flowers 3 in terminal or axillary racemes ; bracts deciduous ; 

 bractlets lateral at a variable height on pedicel, deciduous (Australia 4 ). 



246. Isotropis Benth. 5 — Receptacle obconical short; calyx-lobes 

 5 much longer than tube ; 2 superior high-connate. Petals ungui- 

 culate ; standard broadly orbicular ; wings obliquely subfalcate ; 

 keel incurved. Stamens 10 free. Germen sessile ovules cc ; style 

 slender; apex minute stigmatiferous. Legume oblong linear or 

 lanceolate, more or less turgid, acute. Seeds exarillate. — Herbs or 

 undershrubs ; stems diffuse or ascending ; leaves alternate 1-foliolate ; 

 stipules small or linear falcate ; flowers long-pedunculate solitary 

 axillary, or in racemes at ends of branches {Australia 6 ). 



247. Gompholobiurn Sm. ; — Receptacle cupuliform ; edge of disk 



1 Species about 27. Labill., Nouv.-Soll., t. 

 135 (Gompholobiurn). — R. Br., in Ait. Sort. 

 Kern., ed. 2, iii. 9. — Andr., Bot. Bepos., t. 320 

 (Pultencea). — Sweet, Fl.Austral.,t.b. — Bexth., 

 Fl. Austral., ii. 14.— Bot. Beg., t. 216 (Cal!!- 

 stachys), 392,913; (1843), t. 16 (Oxylobium), 

 959, 1338 (Podolobium), 1434 (Mirbelia).—Bot. 

 Mag., t. 1544, 1925, 2442, 3249, 3882.— Walp., 

 Bep., v. 423, 424 ; Ann., iv. 452, 453. 



2 Voy., i. 405, t. 21.— DC, Prodr., ii. 102.— 

 Endl., Gen., n. 6431.— B. H., Gen., 467, n. 

 11. — Orthotropis Benth., in Lindl. Swan Bic, 

 App., 16. 



3 Orange or red, often 2-coloured. 



4 Species about 15. Bonpl., Jard. Mal/mais., 

 t. 35. — R. Br. in Ait. Sort. Kern., ed. 2, iii. 



8. — Bexth., in Ann. Wien. Mvs.,\\. 271; Fl. 

 Austral., ii. 26.— Maund., Bot., t. 106.— Bot. 

 Beg., t. 986, 1513, 1514, 1528j (1838), t. 10; 

 (1839), t. 49; (1811), t. 45.— Bot. Mag., t. 

 1032, 3607, 3903.— Walp., Ann., ii. 309; iv. 

 453. 



5 In Sueg. Emm., 28 ; in Ann. Wien. Mitt., 

 ii. 70.— Endl., Gen., n. 6429.— B. H., Gen., 

 468, n. 13.— ? Callistachya Sst., in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc, ix. 267 (ex Endl.). 



6 Lodd., Bot. Cab., t. 1953 (Chorizema). — 

 Paxt., Mag., x. 127, ic. (Chorizema). — Behth., 

 Fl. Austral., ii. 38. 



7 In Trans. Linn. Soc, iv. 220.— DC, Prodr., 

 ii. 105.— Exdl., Gen., n. 6432.— B. 11., Gen., 

 468, n. 14. 



