LEGUMINOS #-PAPILIONACHA. 269 
Calyx gamosepalous; teeth nearly equal or 2 superior shorter, 
valvate. Petals finally unequal ; standard suborbicular patent, often 
unevenly gibbous within at base, rather long-unguiculate ; wings 
faleate-oblong, finally shorter than standard; keel broad, much 
curved obtuse, longer than wings; claws more or less close or con- 
nate below. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous ; 9 connate for a considerable 
height into a sheath cleft above, finally free subulate curved ; vexil- 
lary stamen free; anthers uniform. Germen stipitate co-ovulate ; 
ovules finally multiseriate’ subhorizontal; style curved, rather pro- 
minent below; apex capitate stigmatiferous; margins thickened at 
apex, longitudinally bearded, produced into a helmet or cowl round 
stigmatiferous head. Legume stipitate surrounded at base by 
persistent calyx, vesicular membranous inflated veined, indehiscent 
or widely dehiscent by 2 valves at apex. Seeds o, reniform campy- 
lotropous ; funicle straight, rather thick; albumen thin pulpy; 
embryo rather fleshy ; radicle elongated arched accumbent.—Shrubs, 
glabrous or somewhat silky ; ieaves alternate imparipinnate ; ; leaflets 
entire exstipellate articulated; stipules 2, lateral; flowers? axillary 
racemose few, rather large; bractlets 2, minute, inserted below 
flower. (Middle and southern Europe, temperate and subtropical 
Asia’). 
79. Sutherlandia R. Br.‘— Flowers almost those of Colutea ; 
corolla longer ; standard erect, patent at apex, folded back at margins, 
shortly unguiculate ; wings oblong ; keel longer than standard, erect, 
curved acute. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1); anthers uniform. 
Germen stipitate 0 -ovulate; style filiform, curved at apex, longi- 
tudinally bearded above and within ; apex minutely capitate stig- 
matiferous. Legume membranous inflated (of Colutea), subindehis- 
cent.—A shrub, hoary; leaves imparipinnate; leaflets o, quite 
entire, exstipellate ; stipules small narrow; flowers’ in axillary 
racemes ; bracts and bractlets small (Southern Africa’). 
n. 880.—J., Gen., 359.—Gartn., Fruct., ii. 320, 
t. 154.—Lamx., Dict. i. 852; Suppl. i. 560 
(part.).—DC., Prodr., ii. 270.—Enpu., Gen. 
n. 6561.—B. H., Gen., 505, n. 128, 
1 Originally 2-seriate. 
2 White or reddish, 
3 Species 3 or 4. Muzz., Icon. t. 100.— 
Scuxvunr, Handd., t. 204.—Dcenam., <Aror., 
ed. 2, i. t. 22, 28.—SipTu., Fl. Grec., t. 707.— 
Gren. & Gopr., Fl. de Fr, i. 454.—Bot. Reg., 
t. 1727,— Bot. Mag., t. 81, 2622.—Watp., Rep., 
682; Ann., i 232 ; ii. 367 [Baxzer (in Oliv. 
Fl. Trop. Afr., ii. 186) gives one species as ex- 
tending to Nile Land.] 
4 In Ait, Hort, Kew,, ed. 2, iii, 827 (nec 
Gmet.).—DC., Prodr., ii. 273.—ENDL., Gen., 
n. 6566.—B. H., Gen, 503, n. 123.—Colutia 
Manca, Meth., 164. 
5 Scarlet, handsome. 
6 Species 1. S. frutescens R. BR., loc, cit.— 
