842 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
minute capitate. Legume sessile or stipitate, plano-compressed, with 
slender or thickened sutures, continuous or callous between seeds, 
2-valved. Seeds unequally oblong, glabrous; funicle dilated at apex 
into a fleshy aril of variable form.—Shrubs or undershrubs, sometimes 
leafless ; branches terete compressed or 2-winged cladodiform," rarely 
subangular ; leaves alternate or opposite, simple, or reduced to scales ; 
stipules minute (dark-coloured) or 0 ; flowers’ solitary axillary ; bracts 
at base of pedicels minute, often dry, imbricate ; bractlets 2, almost 
like bracts, inserted on pedicel (Australia’). 
225, Platylobium Smu.‘—Calyx-lobes very unequal; 2 superior 
very large, free or connate; 3 inferior small or very small, connate 
into a 3-dentate or 3-fid lip. Corolla almost of Bossiga ; keel shorter 
than wings, obtuse. Stamens 10, l-adelphous; filaments connate 
into a sheath cleft above; anthers uniform versatile. Germen sessile, 
ovules «© ; style incurved subulate; apex minute stigmatiferous. 
Legume sessile or stipitate, plano-compressed, continuous within ; 
2-valved, valves flat, on dehiscence bending elastically back to 
longitudinally winged superior suture. Seeds arillate—Shrubs ; 
branches opposite thin, leaves opposite simple; stipules small; 
flowers’ solitary or more rarely few; axillary bract rigid dry imbri- 
cated at base of flower ; bractlets 2, resembling bracts, lateral under 
flower (Australia’). 
226. Templetonia R. Br.’—Receptacle shortly concave oblique. 
Calyx gamosepalous ; lobes or teeth 4, unequal (2 posterior connate, 
more rarely distinct) ; estivation imbricate. Petals much exserted ; 
standard ovate or orbicular, often reflexed; Wings narrow, often 
shorter, keel equal to or shorter than wings, obtuse. Stamens 10, 
l-adelphous ; filaments connate into a sheath cleft above ; anthers 5 
1 See p. 220, fig. 192. 
2 Yellow, red, or purple-variegated, 
3 Species 34. Sm., in Zrans. Linn. Soc., ix. 
302.—R. Br., in Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2,iv. 266.— 
Bonet, Jard. Malmais., t. 52.—Sweert, Fl, 
Austral., t. 9, 20, 51.—Hoox. F., Fl. Tasm., t. 
16.—Anvr., Bot. Repos., t. 191, 205, 276.— 
Bentu., Fl. Austral. ii. 154.—Bot. Reg., t 
306; (1841), t. 55; (1843), t. 68.—Bot. Mag., 
t. 1144, 1233, 1285, 1266, 1498, 1652, 2491, 
3895, 3986. 
4In Trans. Linn. Soc., ii. 350.—DC., Prodr., 
ii. 116.—Enpu., Gen, nu. 6454,—B. H., Gen., 
478, n. 33.—? Cheilococca SazisB,, Prodr., 412 
(ex SM.). 
5 Yellow. 
§ Species 8. Sm., Bot. Nov.-Holl., t. 6.— 
VEnNT., Jard. Ualnais., t. 31.—R. Br. in Ait. 
Hort. ie, ed. 2, iv. 166. —BEntH., Fl. Austral. = 
ii, 152,— Bot, Mag, t. 469, 1508, 1520, 3258, 
3259, 
7 In Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2, iv. 269. —DC., 
Prodr., ii. 118.—Evp1,, Gen, n. 6457.—B. H., 
Gen., 474, n. 35. —Nematophylium F, Mvszit., 
in Hook. Journ., ix. 20, 
