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alternate shorter versatile; 5 others longer basifixed. Germen sessile 
or stipitate, 2-co -ovulate; style subulate incurved ; stigma terminal. 
Legume oblong or linear, compressed 2-valved, within continuous 
coriaceous. Seeds arillate; funicle short—Shrubs or undershrubs, 
sometimes leafless; leaves usually simple, articulated at base ; 
stipules 2 lateral minute ; flowers’ racemose, often few; bracts im- 
bricated at base of pedicel; bractlets inserted on pedicel, almost like 
bracts (Australia’). 
227. Hovea R. Br.’—Receptacle shortly cupuliform glandular 
within. Calyx gamosepalous ; lobes or teeth valvate in bud, very 
unequal; 3 inferior short narrow, usually subequal; 2 superior 
much larger connate into a truncate or emarginate broad lip. Petals 
unequal ; standard broadly suborbicular; wings obliquely obovate ; 
keel obtuse much longer than standard. Stamens 10, all connate 
into a sheath cleft above or above and below ; 1 vexillary sometimes 
free or nearly so (Plagiolobium’), usually connate with rest; 1 superior 
(alternipetalous) sometimes also nearly free; 5 oppositipetalous 
anthers shorter versatile, 5 others longer basifixed. Germen sessile 
or substipitate; apex tapering into an incurved style; stigma 
terminal. Ovules o or more frequently 2, descending, micropyle 
superior extrorse. Legume sessile or stipitate, turgid short, globular 
ovoid, or ovoid-rhomboidal often oblique at base, continuous within, 
2-valved. Seeds 1 or more, arillate funiculate—Shrubs, unarmed 
or spiny; leaves alternate simple; stipules small or 0; flowers’ 
axillary or fascicled, more rarely irregularly racemose on a developed 
branch ; bracts and bractlets small or 0 (Australia‘). 
228. Goodia Satiss.’—Calyx 2-labiate; upper lip shortly 2- 
dentate ; lower partite into 3 narrow subequal lobes.’ Standard 
suborbicular ; wings very unsymmetrical; keel incurved obtuse. 
1 Yellow, red, or purple-variegated. 
2 Species 7. Vunt., Jard. Malmais., t. 58.— 
Bot. Reg., t. 383, 859.—Bot. Mag., t. 2088, 
2334.—BrEntu., Fl, Austral., ii, 168. 
3 In Att. Hort. Kew., ed. 2, iv. 275.—DC.. 
Prodr,, ii. 115.—ENpDL., Gen., n, 6451.—B. H., 
Gen., 474, n. 36.—Potretia Su., in Trans, Linn. 
Soc., ix. 804 (nec VENT.).— Platychilum Dn- 
Laun., Herb, Amat., t. 87.—Phusicarpos Porr., 
Dict., Suppl., iv. 399. 
4 Sweet, Fl. Austral, t, Qs 
5 Blue or purplish. 
6 Species 11. Boner, Jard. Malmais., t. 
51.—Sweet, Fl, Austral., t. 13.—Hure., Arch. 
Bot., t.7.—Hoox. F., Fl. Tasm., t. 15.— Bot. 
Reg., t. 280, 463, 614, 1423, 1427, 1512, 1524; 
(1838), t. 62; (1843), t. 4; (1844), t. 58.—Bot. 
Mayg., t. 1624, 2005, 3053. 
7 Parad. Lond., t. 41.—ENDL., Gen, n. 
6456.—DC., Prodr., ii. 117.—B. H., Gen, 474, 
n. 37. 
5 Fairly imbricate when young. 
