270 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
80. Swainsona Saxiss.'—Flowers almost those of Sutherlandia ; 
teeth of calyx 5, nearly equal or 2-superior connate to a greater 
height. Standard orbicular or reniform, patent or reflexed, bare or 
with 2 callosities within above claw ; wings falcate-oblong or a little 
twisted. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1). Germen sessile or stipitate, 
oo-ovulate; style curved or involute (Cycloygne*), longitudinally 
bearded above and within or more rarely dorsally ; stigma terminal 
small, minutely capitate or oblique (Spherophysa’). Legume of 
Sutherlandia or Colutea, scarcely dehiscent or 2-valved; seminiferous 
suture slightly or much intruded (Diplolobium'). Seeds subreniform 
exarillate——Herbs or undershrubs, glabrous or pilose; leaves im- 
paripinnate ; leaflets 3-0 , exstipellate ; stipules small or setaceous, 
or broad herbaceous at base; flowers’ in axillary racemes ; bracts 
small; bractlets sometimes appressed to flowers and persistent, some- 
times minute caducous or 0 (Australia, New Zealand,’ the East, 
Russian Asia, China’). 
81? Lessertia DC..—F lowers of Sutherlandia or Swainsona ; 
standard suborbicular, patent or reflexed, bare within; keel straight 
or curved; wings and keel usually shorter than standard, stamens 
10, 2-adelphous (9-1) ; anthers uniform. Germen sessile or stipitate, 
ow-ovulate; style curved subulate, bearded at back or all round at 
apex below stigma; bare or shortly bearded within. Legume of 
variable form, usually oblong, sometimes thin membranous com- 
pressed, sometimes inflated,’ widely dehiscent or 2-valvate at apex. 
Seeds funiculate reniform exarillate-—Herbs or undershrubs ; leaves 
imparipinnate exstipellate ; stipules small ; flowers” in axillary pedun- 
Harv. & Sonp., Fl. Cap., ii. 212.—8. micro- 
phylla BurcH., ex DC., in Icon, Deless., iii. 41, 
t. 71.—Colutea frutescens L., Spec., 1045.— 
Burm., Fl. Cap. Prodr., 22—Mu11., Icon., 
t. 99.—DC., Astray., 43.—Bot. Mag., t. 181. 
1 Parad. Lond., t.28.—DC., Prodr., ii. 271.— 
Envu, Gen. n. 6562.—B. H., Gen. 504, 
n. 126.—Loxidium Vent., Dec. Gen. Nov., ex 
DC. (incl.: Cyclogyne BuntH., Diplolobium F. 
MueELL., Spharophysa DC. [? Phyllolobiam 
Fiscu., in DC., Prodr., ii. 521)). 
% Bentu., in Lindl. Swan Riv. App., 16. 
3 DC., Mém, Légum., 288 ; Prodr., ii. 271,— 
ENDL, Gen., n. 6569.—B. H., Gen., 504, n. 127, 
(Though Spherophysa and Swainsona are sepa- 
rated by all anthors, we can see no generic distinc- 
tion between them.) 
* F. MveELt., in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinb., vii. 
489. 
5 Red, yellowish, or white. 
6 Brntu., Fl. Austral. ii. 215.—ANDR,, Bot. 
Rep., t. 319.— Hook. ¥., Handb, N. Zeal. Fl., 
51.— Bot. Reg., t. 994; (1846), t. 26.—Bot. 
Mag., t. 792 (Swainsona). 
? Travtv., Fl. Russ., t. 33—Jaus. & SPacu, 
Ill. Pl. Orient., i, 126, t. 64.—Waxe., Rep., ii. 
860 (Spherophysa). 
8 Astragal., 87; Mém. Légum., t. 46; Prodr., 
ii. 271.—Enp3., Gen., n. 6563.—B. H., Gen., 
503, n. 125, 
° Whence this genus ought hardly to be dis- 
tinguished from Swainsona. 
10 White, pink, or oftener red. 
