356 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



259. Dillwynia Sm. 1 — Receptacle very concave, usually obconical 

 lined by a glandular disk. Calyx gamosepalous sub-2 -labiate ; 2 

 superior lobes connate to a variable height, more rarely scarcely 

 distinct ; lower 3 of nearly same length, imbricate. Petals ungui- 

 culate. Standard broader than long, keel shorter than narrow wing, 

 straight or slightly incurved. Stamens 10, uniform or vexillary, 

 shorter and more slender. Germen shortly stipitate at bottom of 

 receptacle 2-ovulate ; ovules descending ; micropjde superior ex- 

 trorse ; style erect, uncinate recurved under capitate stigmatiferous 

 apex. Legume turgid or orbicular, 2-valved. Seeds 1, 2, arillate. 

 — Heath-like shrubs ; leaves alternate simple, linear or terete, arti- 

 culated at base, channelled above ; stipules 2, minute filiform cadu- 

 cous ; flowers 2 in terminal and axillary racemes or corymbs, 

 1-bracteate ; bractlets 2, lateral at a variable height on pedicel 

 {Australia*). 



260 ? Latrobea Meissn. 4 — Flowers nearly of Gastrolobium or Pul- 

 tencea ; calyx subregular ebracteolate ribbed, subequally toothed or 

 lobed. Legume piano-compressed, ovate or lanceolate, 2-valved. 

 Seeds 1, 2, reniform arillate. — Heath-like shrubs ; branches usually 

 virgate. Leaves alternate simple linear, convex or channelled above ; 

 stipules minute or ; flowers 5 terminal, or in short spikes or racemes 

 on shortened floriferous twigs, axillary, solitary or subcapitate or 

 subcorymbose; bracts and bractlets small, distant from flower, caducous 

 or 6 {Australia'). 



X. SOPHOEE^E. 



261. Sophora L. — Eeceptacle concave, lined by a glandular disk. 

 Calyx gamosepalous, often unequally cleft just before anthesis; 

 teeth 5, short before anthesis. Corolla papilionaceous resupinate ; 

 standard suborbicular or broadly obovate, longer or shorter than 



1 In Ann. of Bot., i. 510; Fxot. Bot., t. 25, 2\.—Leptocylisus Meissn., in Plant. Preiss., ii. 

 26 (nee Roth). — R. Be., in Ait. Hort. Few., 211. 



ed. 2, iii. 15.— DC, Prodr., ii. 108.— Endl., 5 " Yellow (or purplish ?)." 



Gen., n. 6441.— B. H., Gen., 471, n. 26. 6 This gC]mg is perhaps ]jetter rc( i uce j to a 



2 Yellow or orange red. section of Pultenaa, distinguished hy the struc- 



3 Species 10. Sweet, Fl. Austral., t. 28.— ture of its ebracteolate calyx. The calyx is 

 Labile., Nouv.-Boll, t. 139.— Benth., in Ann. shortly dentate in Leptocytisus. 



Wien. Mus., ii. 78; Fl. Austral., ii. 146.— Bot. 7 Species 6. Benth., Fl. Austral., ii. 110.— 



Mag., t. 944, 1527, 1545, 2247. Walp., Ann., ii. 313. 



4 In PL Preiss., ii. 219.— B. H., Gen., 471, n. 



