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353 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



lanceolate piano-compressed ; apex more or less obtuse ; eacli suture 

 produced into a narrow longitudinal wing ; mesocarp thin suberous ; 

 endocarp membranous, 1 -seeded (more rarely 2-seeded). Seed oblon 

 exarillate ; albumen very scanty ; embryo fleshy ; cotyledons thick, 

 unequal at base, subauriculate inside, tapering ontside ; radicle rather 

 long cylindical inflexed accumbent. — Shrubs, silvery-silky all over ; 

 leaves paripinnate ; leaflets 1-, 2-jugate exstipellate; midrib pro- 

 longed to a variable distance beyond leaflets into a slender spine ; 

 stipules lateral small ; flowers 1 small in terminal racemes ; bracts 

 small caducous, bractlets {Russian Asia 2 ). 



264. Aminothamnus Bge. 3 — Flowers nearly of Sop It or a ; stamens 

 free or some unequally connate at base ; anthers versatile. Legume 

 linear contorted, continuous within, 2-valved. Seeds ovate ex- 

 arillate ; cotyledons thick ; radicle short incurved. — A small thinly 

 silky shrub ; leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets oc, small exstipellate ; 

 stipules subulate ; flowers 4 in simple terminal racemes ; bracts 

 setaceous (Russian Asia h ). 



265. Virgilia Lamk. 6 — Flowers of Sojihora ; base of calyx finally 

 intruded ; lobes 5, short unequal connate into 2 unequal lips. Petals 

 long-unguiculate ; keel incurved beaked. Stamens 10 free; anthers 

 linear versatile. Germen sessile pauciovulate ; style incurved ; stigma 

 minute terminal. Legume piano-compressed coriaceous, densely 

 velvety outside, 2-valved ; margins thickened. Seeds unequally 

 ovate ; apex of funicle dilated into a rudimentary aril ; embryo 

 (green) albuminous ; radicle incurved. — A tree ; leaves alternate 

 imparipinnate ; leaflets small exstipellate ; stipules narrow caducous ; 

 flowers 7 in short terminal racemes ; bracts broad very caducous ; 

 bractlets (South Africa*). 



266. Calpurnia E. Mey. 9 — Flowers of Sop/tora ; calyx with 5 



1 " Violet." 9S (part.).— Endl., Gen., n. 6711.— B. II., 



2 Species probably 1 (3 described). Pall., Gen., 554, n. 267. "' Pink-purple. 

 Astragal., t. 91 (Sophora).— Ledeb., Icon., t. 8 Species 1. V. cupemis Lamk., loe. cit. — 

 107.— Eichw., PI. Casp. Cauc., t. 33.— Walp., Sims, in Bot. Mag., t. 1590.— DC, loc. tit., n. 

 Rep., i. 806. 1.— Haev. & Soxd., Fl. Cap., ii. 266.— Sophora 



3 Bmim. Plant. Lehman., 67, t, 12.— B. H., capensis BritM., Fl. Cap. Prodr., 12.— S. oro- 

 Gen., 5o5, n. 271. boides Berg. — llypocalyptus capensis Think., 



4 White. Fl. Cap., 570.— Gahga sericea /3 Lamk.— Poda- 

 s Species 1. A. Lehmanni Bge., loc. cit.— lyria capensis Amu;., Pot. Repos., t. 347. 



Walp., Ann., i. 256. 9 Comm. PL Afric. Austr., 2.— Endl., Gen., 



6 Lamk., III., t. 326, fig. 2. -DC, Prodr., ii. n. 6740.— B. H., Gen., 554, n. 268. 



