344 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
Stamens 10, 1-adelphous ; 5 oppositipetalous shorter; sheath split 
above; anthers versatile uniform. Disk produced above receptacle 
into a short sheath cleft above. Ovary stipitate pauciovulate ;* 
funicle descending ;? style inflexed or incurved ; stigma terminal, 
minutely capitate. Legume stipitate oblong-falcate plano-compressed; 
continuous within, 2-valved; sutures nerviform. Seeds arillate; 
fanicle short.—Shrubs, glabrous or pubescent; leaves pinnately 3- 
foliolate; leaflets quite entire, articulated at base; stipules lateral, 
transversely cut a little above base, very caducous ; flowers’ in terminal 
or leaf-opposed racemes ; bracts and bractlets caducous (Australia’). 
229. Liparia L.—Flowers nearly of Zempletonia; calyx-lobes 
5, very unequal; 4 superior lanceolate; lowest much larger, often 
petaloid; prefloration imbricate. Keel with lateral appendage. 
Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1); anthers all uniform subbasifixed, or 
alternate 5 a little shorter. Germen sessile; ovules few; style 
slender; apex minutely stigmatiferous. Legume oblong or obovate 
compressed, continuous within, 2-valved. Seeds few arillate.— 
Shrubs’ usually villous or silky; leaves alternate simple entire coria- 
ceous; flowers’ capitate terminal; bracts broad imbricate forming 
an involucre (South Africa’). 
230. Priestleya DC..—Flowers of Liparia ; calyx-lobes subequal, 
lowest a little longer. Germen sessile; ovules 2-0 ; style subu- 
late; apex entire or 2-dentate, stigmatiferous. Legume oblong or 
broadly linear-oblong, compressed, continuous within, 2-valved ; 
valves coriaceous flat or convex. Seeds l—o arillate.-—Shrubs, 
usually silky or villous ; leaves simple exstipulate ; flowers” crowded 
in terminal heads or racemes, more rarely axillary; bracts ovate 
1 Ovules usually 2 or 3. 
2 Ovule suspended by this, finally inflexed; 
micropyle introrse superior. 
3 Yellow, variegated with purple. 
4 Species 2. Bunta., Fl. Austral, ii. 117.— 
Bot. Mag., t. 958, 1310.—An anomalous genus 
(according to BunrHam), related by its (yellow) 
flowers and legume to Bosstca, by its inflores- 
cence to Crotalaria; but differing in its pin- 
nately (non-digitately) trifoliolate leaves from all 
the Genistee, ; 
5 Mantiss., n. 1819 (part.).—Lamx., Dict., 
ii, 487.—DC., Prodr., ii. 121.—ENDL., Gen. n. 
6463.—B. H., Gen., 472, n. 27. 
§ Turning black when dry. 
7 Yellow. 
® Species 4. Burm., Fl. Cap. Prodr., 4 
(Leucadendron).—Lovp., Bot. Cab., t. 642.— 
AnpDR., Bot. Repos., t. 568.—Bot. Mag., t. 
1241, 4034.—Harv. & Sonp., Fl. Cup., ii. 
14, 
9 In Ann. Se. Nat., sér. 1, iv. 90; Mém. 
Légum., 190, t. 29, 30, 32, 33; Prodr., ii. 121.— 
Eyo., Gen., n. 6464.—B. H., Gen., 172, n. 27.— 
Achyronia WENDL., Obs. Bot., 39; Hort. Her- 
renhaus., i, t, 12.—DC., Prodr., ii. 121. 
10 Yellow. 
