354 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
254 Aotus Su.\—Calyx-lobes 5, unequal; 2 superior broader 
higher connate ; prefloration imbricate. Corolla and stamens nearly 
of Burtonia. Germen sessile or stipitate; ovules 2, shortly funi- 
culate; style slender inflexed ; apex minute stigmatiferous. Legume 
ovate, compressed or rather turgid, 1-2-seeded, 2-valved.—Shrubs ; 
branches often virgate; leaves alternate or 3-nately verticillate, 
simple ; stipules minute or 0; flowers axillary, often in 2’s or 3’s, 
pedicellate ; bracts small caducous; bractlets 0 (Awstralia’). 
255. Phyllota DC.‘\—Calyx-lobes 2, superior often broader or 
higher connate; prefloration imbricate. Corolla and stamens of 
Aotus ; filaments all or outer 5 adnate to petals at base; anthers 
usually elongated. Germen 2-ovulate; style usually dilated at 
base, subulate at apex, minutely stigmatiferous at very point. 
Legume ovate, rather turgid, 1-2-seeded, 2-valved.—Shrubs, usually 
heath-like ; leaves alternate simple linear; stipules minute or 0; 
flowers axillary or terminal, pedunculate; bractlets 2, 3, often 
inserted under flower, sometimes foliaceous’ (Australia’). 
256. Gastrolobium R. Br.’—Calyx gamosepalous; 2 superior 
lobes broader, often truncate, connate higher. Corolla and free 
stamens of 4ofus. Germen subsessile or stipitate ; ovules 2 reniform ; 
style slender incurved, at apex minute or capitate stigmatiferous. 
Legume ovoid or subglobular turgid, 2-valved. Seeds, 1, 2, arillate. 
—Shrubs; leaves opposite or 3- or 4-nately verticillate, more rarely 
alternate, simple rigid, with edges revolute or folded and connate; 
stipules small narrow; flowers* in terminal or axillary racemes or 
137.—R. Br., in Ait, Hort. Kew., ed. 2, iii. 
20.—AnpR., Bot. Repos., t. 304.—Lonpp., Bot. 
Cab., t. 43.—Bzrntu., Fl. Austral., ii. 69.—Bot. 
Reg., t. 728, 1005.— Bot. Mag., t. 1757, 1957, 
2679, 3196, 4244.—WatLp., Rep. i. 569; 
ii. 832; v. 427; Ann, i. 203; ii, 310; iv. 
455. 
1 In Ann. of Bot., i. 504, in Trans. Linn. 
Soe., ix. 249.—DC., Prodr., ii. 108.—ENDL., 
Gen., n. 6440.—B. H., Gen., 470, n. 20. 
2 Yellow or purple-variegated. 
3 Species about 19. Lasrun., Nouv.-Holl., t. 
132,.—R. Bnr., in Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2, iii. 14.— 
Vent., Jard. Malmais. t. 35 (Pultenea).— 
Benty,, in Ann, Wien, Mus, ii. 78; Fl. 
Austral, ii. 94.—Watp., Rep., i. 572; v. 429; 
Ann.,, ii, 311; iv. 456. 
4 Prodr., ii. 113 (Pultenee sect. ii).—Env1., 
Gen., n. 6439.—B. H., Gen., 470, n. 21, 
5 This genus differs ‘from ‘Dillionea (of which 
it was formerly made a section) by its exarillate 
seeds, and its stamens adnate at the base to the 
corolla; from Dillwynia and Aotus by its bract- 
lets. 
6 Species 6. Benru., in Hueg, Enwm., 34; in 
Ann. Wien, Mus., ii. 77; Fil. Austral., ii. 94. 
7 In Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2, ili. 16.—DC., 
Prodr., ii. 110.—EnDL., Gen. un, 6443.—B, H., 
Gen, 470, n. 22, 
8 Yellow or variegated red and purple. 
