LEGUMINOS4-PAPILIONACEZ. 221 
phous stamens whose tube is split above, and arillate seeds. It con- 
tains the genera Bossiea (fig. 192), Platylobium, Templetonia, Hovea, 
and Goodia. 
TX. PODALYRIA SERIES. 
Podalyria’ (193, 194) has resupinate irregular hermaphrodite 
flowers. The cup-shaped receptacle lined by a glandular disk is 
elongated from before backwards” From its — pogatyria Burechellii. 
bottom springs the gyneceum, while the re- 
maining organs of the flower are inserted round 
its margin. The gamosepalous calyx forms a 
thick sac dividing above into five teeth, equal 
or slightly unequal, or lobes usually valvate in 
the bud. The petals, which possess slender claws, 
form a papilionaceous corolla of vexillary estiva- 
tion. The limb of the standard is broad, sub- 
orbicular, often emarginate; the wings rather Fre. 193. 
shorter, are irregularly and obliquely obovate ; Flower (2). 
the keel is still shorter, incurved and obovate, obtuse at the apex. 
The gynzeceum consists of a nearly central sessile  Podalyria Burchellii. 
or subsessile ovary, surmounted by a style whose 
apex is dilated into a little stigmatiferous head, 
forming two vertical rows. Within the ovary 
are an indefinite number of obliquely descending 
subanatropous ovules whose micropyles look up- 
wards and outwards. The fruit is a subglobular 
ovoidal or oblong turgid coriaceous bivalved pod, 
containing a variable number of incompletely 
campylotropous seeds, often ascending, with their 
micropyles downwards and outwards. The funicle 
dilates at the hilum into a little fleshy aril. 
This genus consists of some fifteen species of 
Fie. 194. 
Flower, perianth 
shrubs from South Africa.’ Nearly all their organs removed (4). 
are covered with down. The leaves are alternate simple petiolate, 
1 Podalyria Lamx., Dict., v. 440 (part.); 2 In many species the “calyx” (i.e., the recep- 
Suppl., iv. 442; J7L, t. 327, figs. 8,4.—DC.,  tacle) well deserves its character of “bast 
Prodr., ii. 101.—Spacu, Suit. é Buffon, i.167.—  — intrusus.” 
ENDL., Gen., n. 6423.—BEnTH., in Ann. Wien. 3 Tuuns., Prodr. Fl. Cap.,79; Fl. Cap., 568 
Mus., ii. 67.—B. H., Gen. 467, n.7.—Aphora  (Hypocalyptus)—Satiss., Par. Lond., t. 7.— 
NeEcx., Elem., n. 1370 (nec Nurt.). W., Spec., 505.—VEnNT., Jard. Cels., t. 99.—R. 
