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acute compressed, continuous within, 2-valved; placentary suture 
marginate or narrowly winged. Seeds 1-o exarillate——Shrubs or 
undershrubs, glabrous (often glaucescent); leaves simple entire ex- 
stipulate ;! flowers’ racemose or solitary terminal, or solitary in 
axils of leaf-like bracts ; bractlets leafy or 0 (South Africa’). 
222. Euchlora Ecxu. & Zeyu.‘—Flowers nearly of Rafnia, 
smaller; receptacle gibbous behind; 2 superior calyx-lobes a little 
the larger. Legume ovoid subturgid few-seeded 2-valved.—A_ peren- 
nial’ prostrate villose herb; leaves simple exstipulate ; flowers’ in a 
short dense terminal raceme. Other parts of Rafnia (South Africa’). 
223. Borbonia L.'—Calyx-lobes 5, subequal, acute or pungent. 
Petals more or less villous externally; standard suborbicular or obovate, 
keel incurved obtuse, usually with a rather prominent fold on both 
sides. Stamens and pistil of Rafuia. Legume linear or lanceolate, ob- 
liquely acute, compressed, continuous within, 2-valved; placentary 
suture bare marginate ; valves coriaceous convex. Seeds l—o exaril- 
late.—Shrubs or undershrubs, glabrous or somewhat villous ; leaves 
simple entire rigid coriaceous, o-ribbed exstipulate ; flowers’ soli- 
tary, racemose or capitate, terminal or leaf-opposed ;- bracts and 
bractlets coriaceous or setaceous (South Africa”). 
224, Boisseea Vunt."—Receptacle slightly concave; calyx mem- 
branous 5-lobed ; 2 superior lobes, much larger than rest, connate 
to a variable height into a lip. Petals unequal; standard broadly 
orbicular or reniform reflexed; wings unequally oblong, keel obtuse. 
Stamens, connate into a sheath cleft above ; anthers uniform. Germen. 
sessile or stipitate, few or o-ovulate; style uncurved; stigma 
1 Hither 1-ribbed or net-veined, in Vascoa 
broadly amplexicaul. 
2 Yellow. 
3 Species about 22. VENt., Jard. Malmais., 
t. 48.—Detess., Icon. Sel., iii. 37, t. 62.— 
Hanv., Thes. Cap., t. 71, 72.—Harv. & Sonp., 
Fil. Cap., ii, 31.— Bot. Mag., t. 482. 
4-1. Enum. 171.—Enpt., Gen., n. 6484.— 
B. H., Gen., 475, n. 40.—Microtropis E. MEy., 
Comm. Pl. Afr, Austr., 65. 
5 With habit of Lotononis. 8 Purplish. 
7 Species 1. E. serpens Ecxy. & ZEyH., loc. 
cit.— Harv. & Sonp., Fl. Cap., ii, 839.—Micro- 
tropis hirsuta BE. Mry., loc. cit. 
5 Gen., u. 857,—Lamx., Dict., i. 435; Ill, t. 
619.—DC., Prodr., ii. 120.—Enpt., Gen, n. 
6461.—5. H., Gen., 475, u. 38, 
3 Yellow. 
10 Species 13. Jacq. Hort. Schonbr., ii. t. 
217, 218.—E. Mry., Comm. Pl. Afr. Austr., 
15,—Bot. Mag., t. 274, 2128.—Haryv. & Sonp., 
Fil. Cap., ii. 568. 
 Jard. Cels., t. '7.—DC., Prodr., ii, 116.— 
Enpu., Gen. n. 6455.—B. B .,Gen., 473, n. 
34,—Scottea R. BR., in A2t. Hor’. Kew., ed. 2, 
iv, 269.—Lalage LinpL., in Bot. Reg., t.1722.— 
ENDL., Gen., n, 6453, 
