LEGUMINOSJE-rAPILIONACEAi. 353 



with a longitudinal wing-like membrane, or with an unequal ring 

 below stigma. Legume stipitate short, globose or compressed 1, 

 2-seeded. — Gflabrous shrubs or undershrubs ; branches often rush- 

 like ; leaves narrow or filiform, small, alternate opposite or verticil- 

 late, more rarely ; flowers 1 solitary, axillary or lateral, more 

 frequently in terminal or lateral racemes ; bracts small (Australia 2 ). 



252. Viminaria Sm. 3 — Calyx gamosepalous ; teeth much shorter 

 than tube, subequal. Corolla and stamens nearly of Burtonia. 

 Grermen subsessile ; ovules 2 (of Jacksonia) ; style slender, apex minute 

 stigmatiferous. Legume sessile ovoid-oblong ; pericarp thin subin- 

 dehiscent ; seed usually filling pericarp, minutely arillate. — A shrub, 

 branches rush-like ; leaves alternate, 1-3-foliolate or more frequently 

 reduced to slender elongated petiole ; flowers 4 in terminal slender 

 racemes ; bracts minute caducous ; bractlets 2 small, inserted at top 

 of pedicel under flower (Australia 5 ) . 



253. Daviesia Sm. 6 — Eeceptacle minutely obconical, truncate 

 horizontally at apex, glandular within. Calyx gamosepalous ; teeth 

 5, subequal, or 2 superior connate broader. Petals with slender 

 claws ; standard broadly reniform or orbicular ; wings falcate-oblong 

 orobovate; keel a little smaller than wings, incurved. Stamens 

 10, free or only coherent at base ; 5 filaments often broader. Grermen 

 stipitate, 2-ovulate ; style subulate ; apex not thickened, stigmati- 

 ferous. Legume stipitate much compressed, unequally 1-3-angular 

 acute ; placentary suture straight ; dorsal curved at nearly a right- 

 angle. Seeds 1,2; funicle dilated into an aril. — Shrubs or under- 

 shrubs; leaves alternate simple, horizontal or vertical, sometimes 

 terete spinescent, sometimes prickle-like, more rarely very small or 

 0; flowers 7 usually small, in short, lax or umbelliform corymbiform, 

 axillary or terminal racemes; bracts minute, rarely enlarged and 

 protecting fruit ; bractlets (Australia 8 ). 



1 Yellow or red. 5 Species 1. V. denudata Sm., tor. cit. — R. 



2 Species 13. Labui,., Nouv.-Soll., t. 138.— Rr., in Ait. Sort. Kew., ed. 2, iii. IB.—JBot. 

 R. Br., in Ait. Ifort. Kew., ed. 2, iii. 14. — Man., t. 1190.— Daviesia demdata Vint., Ch. 

 Benth., Fl. Austral., ii. 63. — Bot. Mag., t. de Plant., t. 6. — Sophora juncea Schbad., S 

 969.— Walp., Ann., ii. 311 ; iv. 455. Eannov., t 3. 



3 In Ann. of Sot., i. 507 ; Bxot. Hot., 51, t. 6 In Trans. Linn. Soc, iv. 220.— DC, Prodr. 

 27 ; in Trans. Limn,. Soc, ix. 261.— DC, JProdr., ii. 113.— Endl., Gen., n. 6435.— B. II., Gen., 

 ii. 107. — Endl., Gen., n. 6136.— B. H., Gen., 409, n. 19. 



469, n. 18. 7 Yellow, orange, or red, usually small. 



4 Orange-yellow, small. 8 Species about 55. Labill., Nouv.-Ebll., t. 



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