268 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
leaves simple, very shortly petiolate, articulated at base ; stipules 
subulate persistent; flowers' in simple slender axillary racemes, each 
solitary in axil of a narrow bract; bractlets 0 (Western tropical Africa’). 
76. Carmicheelia R. Br.’—Receptacle minute concave, sparingly 
glandular within. Calyx gamosepalous; teeth nearly equal or 
superior smaller, imbricated in sstivation, finally subvalvate. 
Standard orbicular unguiculate; wings oblong free, usually shorter 
than standard ; keel curved or vaulted, obtuse, longer or shorter than 
standard. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous; 9 connate into a sheath cleft 
above; vexillary stamen free, usually smaller; anthers uniform. 
Germen shortly stipitate, oo-ovulate, curved glabrous; stigma 
minute terminal. Legume usually short, compressed, ovate or 
oblong, elliptical, terminated by the style; sutures more or less 
thickened ; valves separating from persistent margins. Seeds o 
usually few, exarillate; embryo fleshy ; radicle long, folded double.— 
Shrubs or small trees; branches rush- or cladode-like; leaves either 
perfect imparipinnate with 3-0 small obcordate leaflets, or reduced 
to minute scales; stipules small membranous ; flowers* shortly pedicel- 
late, racemose ; racemes short, solitary or fascicled at lateral nodes ; 
bracts small; bractlets inserted at a variable height on pedicel or 
under flower (ew Zealand’). 
77. Notospartium Hook. ¥r.'.—Flowers of Carmichelia; teeth 
of calyx short, nearly equal. Germen sessile, ~-ovulate; style 
curved, longitudinally bearded within; apex hooked inflexed, 
stigmatiferous. Legume linear plano-compressed, membranous be- 
tween vein-like sutures, septate within between seeds, indehiscent. 
Seeds compressed exarillate-—A small tree ; twigs rush-like pendulous, 
leafless on anthesis; scales minute at nodes; flowers’ in lateral 
racemes at nodes; bracts and bractlets minute (ew Zealand). 
78. Colutea T.*— Receptacle wide depressed, lined by a disk. 
1 «© Red.” 4 Pink or white, spotted or striped with lilac. 
2 Species 2 (or 1 with 2 varieties). BENTH., 5 Species 9. Raovn, Ch. de Pl. de la N.-Zél., 
in Trans. Linn. Soc., xxv. 297, t. 33 A, B.  t. 28.—Hoox. F., Handb. N. Zeal. Fl, 48. 
[Baxer (in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., ii, 182) gives a 6 In Hook. Journ., ix. 176, t.3; Handb. N, 
third species or variety]. Zeal. Fl., 51.—B. H., Gen., 502, n. 120. 
5 BR, Br. in Bot. Reg., t. 912.—ENDL., Gen., 7 Pink ?? 
n. 6568.—B. H., Gen., 502, n. 119. 5 Inst., 649, t. 418; Cor, 44,.—L., Gen, 
