LEGUMINOS4)-PAPILIONACE. 337 
211. Melolobium Ecxu. & Zuyu.'—Flowers almost of Dichilus; 
2 superior lobes of short calyx free or connate. Corolla and sexual 
organs of Dichilus. Legume linear compressed, often torulose, 
villous or glandular, continuous inside or with thin septa separating 
seeds, 2-valved.—Branching shrubs or undershrubs, often spinescent, 
glandular-villous or viscid; leaves digitately 3-foliolate; flowers? in 
short terminal spikes or racemes; bracts and bractlets often foliaceous 
(South Africa’). 
212. Anarthrophyllum Bentu.‘—Calyx tubular; 2 superior 
lobes nearly free; lower more or less connate into a lip. Corolla of 
Genista. Stamens 10, 1-adelphous; filaments connate into a sheath 
cleft longitudinally above; anthers nearly uniform, or 5 shorter 
versatile, 5 longer subbasifixed. Germen sessile; ovules few; 
style incurved, apex capitate stigmatiferous. Legume oblique oblong 
or rhomboidal, compressed cuspidate, continuous within, 2-valved. 
Seeds funiculate exarillate—Very bushy shrubs, often rigid heath- 
like; leaves small, subentire or 3-fid, often spinescent; stipules like 
leaf-lobes, adnate to dilated subamplexicaul base of petiole; flowers® 
solitary terminal, usually 2-bracteate (Hztra-tropical South America’). 
213. Aspalathus L.’—Calyx gamosepalous; lobes usually elon- 
gated, subequal or unequal. Corolla almost of Genista; keel incurved, 
obtuse or subrostrate. Stamens 10, 1-adelphous; filaments connate 
into a sheath split longitudinally above; anthers 2-form; 5 shorter 
versatile, 5 longer subbasifixed. Germen sessile or stipitate ; 2—- 
ovulate; style incurved glabrous; stigma terminal minutely capitate 
or oblique. Legume of variable form, oblique at base, obliquely 
acute, compressed or somewhat turgid. Seeds J-o, funiculate 
exarillate.-—Shrubs or undershrubs, heath-like or spinescent, more 
1 Enum. Pl. Afr. Austr., 188.—Envt., Gen., 
n. 6485.—B. H., Gen., 478, 1. 50.—Sphingiwm 
E. Mzy., Comm. Pl. Afr. Austr., 65. 
2 Small, yellow, 
3 Species 11. Hanv. & Sonp., Fl. Cap., ii. 
78 
4 Gen, 478, n. 49. 
5 « Yellow P” 
§ Species 4 or 5. DC., Prodr., ii. 152, n. 75 
(Genista)—Hoox., Bot. Misc., iii. t. 108.— 
Cros, in C. Gay Fl, Chil., ii. 54.—Wate., Rep., 
i. 629 (Genista), : 
VOL. IL 
7 Gen, n. 860.—J., Gen., 353. —GzRTN., 
Fruct., ii. 304, t. 144,—Lamx., Dict., i. 286 ; 
Suppl., i. 482; IU, t. 620.—DC., Prodr., ii. 
138.—ENDL., Gen., n, 6482.—B. H., Gen., 478, 
n. 47.—Sarcophyllus Tuuns., Fl, Cap., 573.— 
Sarcocalyx Watp., in Linnea, xiii. 479.— 
Scaligera Apans., Fam. des Pl., ii. 323. — 
Eriocalyx Neck., Elem., n. 1331 (incl. : Cypho- 
calyx, Heterolathus, Pachyraphea, Paraspa- 
lathus, Plagiostigma, Psilolepus, Trinewria 
Presi, Bot. Bem., 126, 131). 
