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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



254 Aotus Sm. 1 — Calyx-lobes 5, unequal; 2 superior broader 

 higher connate ; prsefloration imbricate. Corolla and stamens nearly 

 of Burtonia. Germen sessile or stipitate ; ovules 2, shortly funi- 

 culate ; style slender inflexed ; apex minute stigmatiferous. Legume 

 ovate, compressed or rather turgid, 1-2-seeded, 2-valved. — Shrubs ; 

 branches often virgate ; leaves alternate or 3-nately verticillate, 

 simple ; stipules minute or ; flowers 2 axillary, often in 2's or 3's, 

 pedicellate ; bracts small caducous ; bractlets {Australia 3 ). 



255. Phyllota DC. 4 — Calyx-lobes 2, superior often broader or 

 higher connate ; praefloration imbricate. Corolla and stamens of 

 Aotus ; filaments all or outer 5 adnate to petals at base ; anthers 

 usually elongated. Germen 2-ovulate ; style usually dilated at 

 base, subulate at apex, minutely stigmatiferous at very point. 

 Legume ovate, rather turgid, 1-2-seeded, 2-valved. — Shrubs, usually 

 heath -like ; leaves alternate simple linear ; stipules minute or ; 

 flowers axillary or terminal, pedunculate ; bractlets 2, 3, often 

 inserted under flower, sometimes foliaceous 5 {Australia 6 ). 



256. Gastrolobium E. Br. ; — Calyx gamosepalous ; 2 superior 

 lobes broader, often truncate, connate higher. Corolla and free 

 stamens of Aotus. Germen subsessile or stipitate ; ovules 2 reniform ; 

 style slender incurved, at apex minute or capitate stigmatiferous. 

 Legume ovoid or subglobular turgid, 2-valved. Seeds, 1, 2, arillate. 

 — Shrubs ; leaves opposite or 3- or 4-nately verticillate, more rarely 

 alternate, simple rigid, with edges revolute or folded and connate ; 

 stipules small narrow ; flowers 8 in terminal or axillary racemes or 



137. — R. Be., in Ait. Sort. Kew., ed. 2, iii. 

 20. — Ande., Bot. Mepos., t. 304. — Lodd., Bot. 

 Cab.,t. 43.— Benth., Fl. Austral., ii. 69.— Bot. 

 Reg., t. 728, 1005.— Bot. Mag., t, 1757, 1957, 

 2679, 3196, 4244. — Walp., Sep., i. 569; 

 ii. 832; v. 427; Ann., i. 203; ii. 310; iv. 

 455. 



1 In Ann. of Bot., i. 50 4 , in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc, is. 249.— DC, Prodr., ii. 108.— Endl., 

 Gen., n. 6440.— B. H., Gen., 470, n. 20. 



2 Yellow or purple-variegated. 



3 Species about 19. Labile., Nouv.-BToll., t. 

 132. — R. Be., in Ait. Sort. Kew., ed. 2, iii. 14. — 

 Vent., Jard. Mahnais., t. 35 (Pultena>a). — 

 Benth., in Ann. Wien. Mus., ii. 78 ; Fl. 



Austral., ii. 94. — Walp., Hep., i. 572 ; v. 429 ; 

 Ann., ii. 311 ; iv. 456. 



4 Prodr., ii. 113 {Pultenma sect. ii). — Endl., 

 Gen., n. 6139.— B. H., Gen., 470, n. 21. 



5 This genus differs from Pulten&a (of which 

 it was formerly made a section) by its exarillate 

 seeds, and its stamens adnate at the base to the 

 corolla; from Dilltcgnia and Aotus by its bract- 

 lets. 



6 Species 6. Benth., in Hueg. Enum., 34 ; in 

 Ann. Wien. Mus., ii. 77 ; Fl. Austral., ii. 94. 



7 In Ait. Hort. Kern., ed. 2, iii. 16.— DC, 

 Prodr., ii. 110.— Endl., Gen., n. 6443.— B. H., 

 Gen., 470, n. 22. 



8 Yellow or variegated red and purple. 



