LEGUMIN0SJE-PAPIL10NA CEJE. 



slightly prominent. Calyx deeply 5-lobed ; lobes subequal rather 

 thick valvate persistent. Petals very unequal; standard broadly 

 orbicular or reniform, apex often emarginate ; wings oblong, often 

 falcate; keel oblong, broader than wings. Stamens 10, free perigy- 

 nous ; anthers uniform. Germen inserted by short slender stalk in 

 bottom of receptacle closely surrounded by a disk at base ; style 

 incurved; apex truncate or capitate, stigmatiferous ; ovules 4- oo, 2- 

 seriate, long-funiculate campylotropous. Legume inflated sub-gibbous, 

 ovoid or shortly cylindrical, obtuse often oblique inflated. Seeds 

 few or go, small exarillate long-funiculate. — Shrubs or undershrubs ; 

 leaves alternate simple, or more rarely pinnate or digitate ; terminal 

 leaflet sessile ; stipules minute or ; flowers 1 axillary or terminal, 

 solitary or in small racemes ; bracts and bractlets minute or 

 (Australia 2 ). 



248. Mirbelia Sm. 3 — Calyx gamosepalous imbricated ; 2 superior 

 lobes broader, higher connate. Petals unguiculate ; standard reni- 

 form or broadly orbicular ; wings obliquely oblong ; keel equal to 

 wings or shorter. Stamens 10, free. Germen sessile or stipitate ; 

 ovules 2-oo ; style usually short incurved ; apex capitate stigmati- 

 ferous. Legume oblong or ovoid, turgid, within longitudinally 

 2-locellate by 2 longitudinal false-septa, springing one from 

 pushed-in placenta, one from anterior suture (as in Astragalus) ; 

 endocarp often separating from exocarp at maturity ; seeds 1, 2, or 



oo, exarillate. — Shrubs; leaves simple, alternate and opposite or 

 verticillate, more rarely ; stipules small setaceous or ; flowers 4 

 axillary or terminal, solitary fascicled or racemose; bracts and 

 bractlets small or (Australia?). 



249. Burtonia E. Br. 6 — Keceptacle very short. Calyx hence 



1 Yellow or red. 



2 Species about 24. Labill., Nouv.-Holl., t. 

 133, 134.— R. Be., in Ait. Hort. Keio., ed. 2, 

 ill - 11. — Andb., Bot. Repos., t. 642. — Reichb., 

 Icon. Fxot., t. 76, 97, 243. — Benth., in Ann. 

 Wien. Mus., ii. 72 ; Fl. Austral., ii. 40. — Bot. 

 Beg., t. 1468, 1474, 1490, 1563, 1574, 1615 ; 

 (1839), t. 43.-50*!. Mag., t. 1533, 4171, 4179, 

 4258.— Walp., Ann., ii. 309 ; iv. 453. 



3 In Ann. of Bot., i. 511 ; in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc, ix. 265.— R. Br., in Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 

 2, iii. 21.— DC, Prodr., ii. 114.— Spach, Suit, 

 a Buffon, i. 183.— Endl., Gen., n. 6448.— B. H., 

 Gen., 468, n. 12. — Dichosema Bkntii., in Hue.g. 



Fnum., 35 ; in Ann. Wien. Mus., ii. 84. — Endl., 

 Gen.,n. 6449. — Oxycladium P. Muell., in Hook. 

 Journ., ix. 20 ; Fragm. Phyt. Austral., i. 167. 



4 Yellow, red, or purple. 



5 Species about 16. Vent., Jard. Malmais., 

 t. 119. — Sweet, Fl. Austral., t. 34. — Reichb., 

 Icon. Exot., t. 191. — Benth., Fl. Austral., ii. 

 32.— Bot. Reg.,t. 1041; (1841), t. 58.— Bot. 

 Mag., t. 1121, 2771, 4119.— Walp., Sep., i. 

 576; v. 433; Ann., i. 204; ii. 318. 



6 In Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2, iii. 12 (nee 

 Salisb.).— DC, Prodr., ii. 106.— Endl., Chn., 

 n. 6433.— B. II., Gen., 468, n. 15. 



