280 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
vexillary stamen more or less connate with remainder; tube usually 
closed at commencement of anthesis, often abruptly constricted a 
little above base; anthers small, uniform or 5 alternate affixed 
higher than remainder. Germen articulated at base ; ovule 1, campy- 
lotropous descending ; style filiform or dilated at base, curved above ; 
apex capitate stigmatiferous. Fruit ovate dry indehiscent, sur- 
rounded by persistent calyx. Seed exarillate ;! embryo fleshy ; radicle 
superior inflexed accumbent.— Shrubs, undershrubs, or herbs, 
sprinkled with black or pellucid glands; leaves pinnate or digitate 
3—x-foliolate, more rarely 1-foliolate; stipules broad, embracing 
stem at base ; flowers? capitate spicate or subracemose ; inflorescences 
-pedunculate axillary or (the floral leaves being reduced to bracts) 
crowded in compound terminal spikes; bracts membranous, 1—3- 
flowered ; bractlets 0 (Zemperate regions of Europe, Asia, North and 
South America, and northern Africa; southern Africa, Australia’). 
95. Dalea L.i—Teeth or lobes of calyx 5, usually nearly equal, 
and persistent accrescent round fruit, often plumose. Petals often 
adnate to base of staminal tube; standard often altogether free, 
subcordate ; claw tapering ; wings and keel about equal to or longer 
than standard. Stamens 10, or 9 (vexillary stamen absent), 1- 
adelphous, connate close to base into a dilated cup; sheath a little 
higher longitudinally cleft above ; anthers uniform, often surmounted 
by a gland. Germen sessile or shortly stipitate; ovules 2, or more 
rarely 3, 4, descending ; style subulate, often hollow tubular; apex 
evenly truncate or scarcely dilated, stigmatiferous. Legume included 
by calyx and receptacle, membranous, usually 1-seeded, indehiscent. 
Seed oblong or reniform, exarillate——Herbs or undershrubs, often 
sprinkled with glandular dots; leaves imparipinnate, sometimes 
minutely stipellate ; leaflets oo or more rarely 3, very rarely 1; 
stipules small, usually subulate ; flowers’ in terminal or oppositi- 
1 « Often adhering to pericarp.” 
2 White, blue, or purple. 
+ Species about 100. Jacq., Jc. Rar, t. 
562; Hort. Vindob., t. 184; Hort. Schenbr., t. 
228-230.—K., Mimos., t. 54.—VeENT., Jard. 
Malm., t. 94.—Siztu., Fl. Grec., t. 738.— 
Hoox., F/. Bor.-Amer., t. 51-53.—-Hoox. & 
Azn., Beech. Voy., Bot., t. 80.—Haxyv. & Sonp., 
Fl. Cap., ii. 148.—Hary., Thes. Cap., t. 80.— 
Bentu., Fl. Austral. ii. 189.—H. By., Adan- 
Sonia, ix. 233, 291.—BakeER, in Oliv. Fl, Trop. 
Afr., ii. 64.—Bot. Reg., t. 223, 458, 454, 968, 
1769, 1971.— Bot. Mag., t. 446, 665, 990, 1727, 
2063, 2090, 2158.— Watp., Rep., i. 655; ii, 
856 ; v. 513; Ann., i. 280; ii, 861; iv. 486. 
4 Hort. Cliffort., 363, t. 22 (nec Gury, 
nec P. Br.).—DC., Prodr., ii. 244,— ENDL., 
Gen. n. 6523.—B. H., Gen., 493, n. 88.— Paro- 
sella Cav., Elench. Hort. Matrit—Cylipogon 
Razin. (part.), ex Enpi.— Trichopodiwm Prest, 
Bot. Bem., 52 (nec Linv1.). 
° Whitish, blue, purplish, or more rarely yellow. 
