350 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
rarely in dense false-corymbs ; bracts and 2 lateral bractlets inserted 
at a variable height under calyx, very caducous (Awséralia’). ; 
245, Chorizema Lasiiu.’—Receptacle slightly concave, glandular 
within. Calyx gamosepalous; lobes 5 unequal or subequal; 2 
superior often joined higher than rest; preefloration valvate or im- 
bricate. Petals unguiculate; standard orbicular or reniform ; wings 
oblong ; keel much shorter than wings, straight or incurved. Stamens 
10 free, all equal, or vexillary more slender, distant from rest. 
Germen sessile or stipitate o-ovulate; style incurved; stigma more 
or less oblique. Legume ovoid, turgid or compressed continuous 
within. Seeds o, reniform exarillate; hilum rather distant from 
micropyle ; funicle slender, rather long.—Shrubs or undershrubs ; 
leaves simple, alternate or rarely opposite; stipules minute or 
setaceous ; flowers* in terminal or axillary racemes; bracts deciduous ; 
bractlets lateral at a variable height on pedicel, deciduous (4ustralia’). 
246. Isotropis Brentu.'—Receptacle obconical short ; calyx-lobes 
5 much longer than tube; 2 superior high-connate. Petals ungui- 
culate; standard broadly orbicular; wings obliquely subfalcate ; 
keel incurved. Stamens 10 free. Germen sessile ovules «; style 
slender; apex minute stigmatiferous. Legume oblong linear or 
lanceolate, more or less turgid, acute. Seeds exarillate—Herbs or 
undershrubs ; stems diffuse or ascending ; leaves alternate 1-foliolate ; 
stipules small or linear falcate; flowers long-pedunculate solitary 
axillary, or in racemes at ends of branches ( Australia’). 
247. Gompholobium Sm.’—Receptacle cupuliform ; edge of disk 
1 Species about 27. Laxitt., Nowv.-Holl., t. 
135 (Gompholobiwm),.—R. Br., in Ait. Hort. 
Kew., ed, 2, iii. ¥9— ANDR., Bot. Repos., t. 320 
(Pultenea)—Swexrt, Fl. Austral.,t.5.—BENTH., 
Fl. Austral., ii. 14.—Bot, Reg, t. 216 (Calli- 
stachys), 392, 913; (1843), t. 16 (Oaylobium), 
959, 1838 (Podolobium), 1434 (Mirbelia).— Bot. 
Mag,, t. 1544, 1925, 2442, 3249, 3882.— Wa p., 
Rep., v. 423, 424; Ann., iv. 452, 453. 
2 Voy., i. 405, t. 21.—DC., Prodr., ii. 102.— 
Envt., Gen., n. 6431.—B. H., Gen., 467, n. 
11.—Orthotropis Brntu., in Lindl. Swan Riv., 
App., 16. 
3 Orange or red, often 2-coloured. 
4 Species about 15. Bonpy., Jard. Malmais., 
t. 35.—R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2, iii. 
8.—BeEntH., in Ann. Wien. Mus., ii. 271; Fl. 
Austral,, ii. 26—Mavunp., Bot., t. 106.—Bot. 
Reg., t. 986, 15138, 1514, 1528; (1838), t. 10; 
(1839), t. 49; (1841), t. 45.—Bot. Mag, t. 
1032, 3607, 3903.—Watp., Ann., ii. 309; iv. 
453. 
5 In Hueg. Enum. 28; in Ann. Wien. Mus., 
ii. 70.—Envu., Gen. n, 6429.—B. H., Gen., 
468, n. 13.— ? Callistachya Sm., in Trans. 
Linn, Soc., ix. 267 (ex ENDL). 
6 Lopp., Bot. Cab., t. 1953 (Chorizema).— 
Paxr., Mag., x. 1217, ic. (Chorizema).—BENTH., 
Fl. Austral., ii. 38, 
7 In Trans. Linn. Soc., iv. 220.—DC., Prodr., 
ii, 105.—Ewp1., Gen. n. 6432.—B. H., Gen., 
468, n. 14. 
