LEGUMINOSH-PAPILIONACEA. 845. 
concave, lanceolate, or (the innermost) setaceous ; bractlets setaceous 
caducous' (South Africa’). 
231. Amphithalea Ecxu. & Zuyn.*—Calyx narrow; lobes or 
teeth all 5 subequal, or 2 superior connate rather high and broader. 
Petals often narrowed at base; standard obovate ovate or orbicular ; 
wings oblong; keel pretty straight, spurred or gibbous on both 
sides, obtuse at apex. Stamens 10, 2-adelphous (9-1); anthers 5 
alternate smaller versatile ; 5 others subbasifixed longer. Germen 
sessile, ovules 1 or few; style incurved ; apex minute stigmatiferous. 
Legume ovate or oblong, compressed, continuous within, 1- or few- 
seeded, 2-valved. Seeds arillate—Shrubs, glabrous or more fre- 
quently silky-villous, usually heath-like; leaves alternate simple 
entire exstipulate ; flowers‘ in crowded leafy spikes, or axillary 
often paired ; pedicels 0, or very short, 1-bracteate (South Africa’). 
232. Lathriogyne Ecxi. & Zuyu.'—Flowers nearly of Ampihi- 
thalea; corolla shorter than calyx; keel beaked, gibbous on both 
sides. Germen sessile; ovule 1. Legume......? Other parts 
of Amphithalea—A. silky-villous heath-like shrub; leaves alternate 
simple entire; flowers crowded in terminal leafy capitula (South 
Africa’). 
233. Coelidium Voc.'—Flowers nearly of Amphithalea; keel 
pretty straight obtuse. Stamens 10, 1-adelphous ; filaments connate 
into a sheath cleft above; anthers of 2 kinds. Germen sessile ; 
ovule 1. Legume ovate rather acute 2-valved; seed arillate.— 
Silky-villous heath-like shrubs; leaves simple (of Amphithalea) ; 
flowers’ crowded in a terminal head, or axillary, often paired ; pedicels 
very short, 1-bracteolate (South Africa”). 
1 DECANDOLLE divides this genus into the fol- 
lowing 2 sections: 1. Isothea: base of calyx 
pushed up; keel beaked; 2. Anisothea: base 
of calyx not pushed up, or tapering obconical ; 
keel not beaked (Xyphoteca Ecku. & Zrvu., 
Enuwn., 166). 
2 Species 15. Tuune., Fl. Cap., 565 (Li- 
paria).— KER, in Bot. Reg., t. 8.—ANDR., Bot. 
Repos., t. 382.—Harv. & Sonp., Fl. Cap., ii. 
16.— Bot. Mag., t. 382, 3216. 
3 Emum., 167.—ENDL., Gen, n. 6465.— 
Ingenhoussia E. Muy., Comm. Pl. Afric. Austr., 
20.— Cryphiantha Eckt. & ZEYH., op. cit. 171.— 
Epistemum Watp., in Linnea, xiii. 478. 
4 Pink or purple, usually small. 
5 Species 9. DC., Mém. Légum., t. 31 (Priest- 
leya).—Hary. & Sonp., Fl. Cap., ii. 21. 
6 Enum. 170.—ENDL., Gen, n. 6466.— 
Heudusa Hi. Mry., Comm. Pl. Afric. Austr, 
153. 
7 Species 1. L. parvifolia Eoxu. & ZEvu., 
loc. cit.—Harv.. & Sonp., Fl. Cap., ii. 593.— 
Heudusa decipiens E. Mry., loc. cit. 
8 Ex Watp., in Linnea, xiii. 472.—ENDL., 
Gen., nu. 6467.—B. H., Gen., 473, n. 31. 
9 Pink, purple, or yellow, usually small. 
10 Species 8. Hany. & Sonp., Fl. Cap., ii. 
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