358 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
lanceolate plano-compressed ; apex more or less obtuse; each suture 
produced into a narrow longitudinal wing; mesocarp thin suberous ; 
endocarp membranous, 1-seeded (more rarely 2-seeded). Seed oblong 
exarillate; albumen very scanty; embryo fleshy; cotyledons thick, 
unequal at base, subauriculate inside, tapering outside; radicle rather 
long cylindical inflexed accumbent.—Shrubs, silvery-silky all over ; 
leaves paripinnate; leaflets 1-, 2-jugate exstipellate ; midrib pro- 
longed to a variable distance beyond leaflets into a slender spine; 
stipules lateral small; flowers' small in terminal racemes ; bracts 
small caducous, bractlets 0 (Russian Asia’). 
264, Ammothamnus Ber.’—Flowers nearly of Sophora ; stamens 
free or some unequally connate at base; anthers versatile. Legume 
linear contorted, continuous within, 2-valved. Seeds ovate ex- 
arillate; cotyledons thick; radicle short incurved.—A small thinly 
silky shrub; leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets o, small exstipellate ; 
stipules subulate; flowers‘ in simple terminal racemes; bracts 
setaceous (Russian Asia’). 
265. Virgilia Lamx.'—Flowers of Sophora; base of calyx finally 
intruded ; lobes 5, short unequal connate into 2 unequal lips. Petals 
long-unguiculate; keel incurved beaked. Stamens 10 free; anthers 
linear versatile. Germen sessile pauciovulate ; style incurved ; stigma 
minute terminal. Legume plano-compressed coriaceous, densely 
velvety outside, 2-valved; margins thickened. Seeds unequally 
ovate; apex of funicle dilated into a rudimentary aril; embryo 
(green) albuminous; radicle incurved.—A tree; leaves alternate 
imparipinnate ; leaflets small exstipellate ; stipules narrow caducous ; 
flowers’ in short terminal racemes; bracts broad very caducous; 
bractlets 0 (South Africa’). 
266. Calpurnia HE. Mey.’°—Flowers of Sophora; calyx with 5 
1 « Violet.” 
? Species probably 1 (8 described), Paut., 
Astragal., t. 91 (Sophora).—Lzprs., Icon., t. 
107.—Vicuw., Pl. Casp. Cauc., t. 33.—WaLP., 
98 (part.).—EnpL., Gen., n. 6741.—B. H., 
Gen., 554, u. 267. 7 Pink-purple. 
8 Species 1. V7. capensis Lamx., loc. cit.— 
Rep, i. 806. 
3 Enum. Plant. Lehman., 67, t. 12.—B. H., 
Gen., 555, n. 271. 
+ White. 
5 Species 1. .A. Lehmanni Bas., loc. cit.— 
Waxp., Ann., i. 256. 
6 Lamx., IIL, t. 326, fig. 2—DC., Prodr., ii. 
Srms, in Bot. Mag., t. 1590.—DC., loc. cit., n. 
1.—Hanyv. & Sonp., Fl. Cap., ii. 266.—Sophora 
capensis BurM., Fl. Cap. Prodr., 12.—S. oro- 
boides Brra.—Hypocalyptus capensis THUNR., 
Fl. Cap., 570.— Galega sericea B Lamx.— Poda- 
lyria capensis ANDR., Bot. Repos., t. 347. 
° Comm. Pl. Afric. Austr., 2.—ENDL., Gen., 
u, 6740.—B. H., Gen., 554, n. 268. 
