346 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
234.2 Walpersia Harv. & Sonp.'—Flowers nearly of Celidium ; 
“ calyx-lobes of nearly same length, 2 superior broader, claws of petals 
adnate at base to staminal tube. Stamens 1-adelphous. Germen 
2-ovulate—A much-branched villous shrub; leaves simple quite 
entire, edges revolute ; flowers’ pedicellate in axils of upper leaves ; 
bractlets' foliaceous below calyx” (South Africa). 
IX. PODALYRIEA. 
235. Podalyria Lamx.—Receptacle subcampanulate, pushed in 
at base, lined by a glandular disk. Calyx gamosepalous; teeth or 
lobes 5, subequal. Corolla papilionaceous; standard orbicular, or 
broadly cordate emarginate, a little longer than wings, rather thick 
or glandular inside above short subrecurved claw; wings obliquely 
obovate; keel broadly obovate incurved obtuse, shorter than wings. 
Stamens 10, perigynous; filaments free or unequally connate at very 
base; anthers uniform. Germen sessile; ovules »; style slender; 
apex minute stigmatiferous. Legume oblong or turgid 2-valved; 
valves coriaceous; seeds 1-0, arillate-—Silky or villous shrubs; 
leaves alternate simple, shortly petiolate or sessile ; stipules subulate, 
often caducous; flowers axillary pedunculate, solitary or in twos or 
fours (South Africa). 
236. Cyclopia Vent.’—Flowers of Podalyria ; keel incurved ob- 
tusely beaked. Legume oblong plano-compressed. Seeds o, aril- 
late.—Shrubs, glabrous or rather villous when young ; leaves shortly 
petiolate or sessile, digitately 3-foliolate, rarely 1-foliolate ; peduncles 
axillary, 1-flowered,* 2-bracteolate at base (South Africa’). 
237. Thermopsis R. Br.'—Receptacle shortly turbinate disci- 
ferous within ; calyx-lobes 5 subequal or 2 posterior united for a 
variable height. Standard suborbicular, subequal to wings, with 
1 Fl, Cap.,, ii. 26.—B. H., Gen., 473, u. 32. E. Mey., Comm. Pl. Afric. Austr., 3.—ANDR., 
2 « Yellow.” Bot. Repos., t. 427.—Hary. & Sonp., Fl. Cap.. 
3 Dec. Gen. Nov. 8—R. Br, in Ait. Hort. ii. 6. : 
Kew. ed. 2, iti. 5—DC., Prodr., ii. 101— ° © In Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2, iii, 8.—DC, 
EnpL, Gen, u. 6422.—B, H., Gen. 466, n. Prodr., ii, 99.—ENpt., Gen. n. 6420.—B. H.. 
6.—LIbbetsonia Sims, in Bot. Mag., t, 1259. Gen., 465, n. 3.—Thermia Nurr., Gen. Amer. 
4 Flowers yellow. i, 282.—- Scolobus RarIn., in Journ. Phys. 
5 Species 9. Ecxu. & Zeyu., Hnum.,153.—  lxxxix. 89, 
