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XLIII. LEGUMINOS^E. 
[Swaimona. 
suture occasionally impressed, or the pod divided by a longitudinal partition. 
Seeds usually small, reniform, without any strophiole. — Herbs or undershrubs, 
glabrous or clothed, especially the young shoots, with short rather rigid appressed 
hairs. Leaves unequally pinnate, leaflets usually numerous, small, entire, 
without stipelte. Stipules herbaceous, oblique with a broad base, rarely almost 
subulate. Flowers violet-purple, blue, red, white or yellowish, in axillary 
racemes. Bracts membranous, usually small. Bracteoles sometimes close to 
the calyx and persistent, sometimes on the pedicel, and very small or none. 
The genus is limited to Australia, with the exception of a single New Zealand species. 
The European and Asiatic Coluteas are, however, only to be distinguished by their shrubby 
habit and large prominent lateral stigma, and the S. African Lessertias are some of them 
so near to S. lessertiifolia (S. colonies) and its allies as to make it very difficult to draw any 
but a geographical line between the two genera. — Benth. 
A. Standard with prominent oblique or longitudinal plate-like calli above the claw. Pod 
stipitate , thin, inflated. 
Style bearded only along the inner side. Flowers large. Pod acute, 1 to 
2in. long. 
Calyx densely white-tomentose 1. S. Greyana. 
Calyx glabrous, or nearly so 2 . S. galegifolia . 
Style with a tuft of small hairs behind the stigma on the back, l esides the 
longitudinal beard. Pod under Jin. long. Flowers small 3. S. brachycarpa. 
B. Standard with transverse or confluent callosities on the top of or close above the claw, or the 
top of the claw much thickened. Pod sessile or nearly so, turgid, often coriaceous. 
Keel incurved, but neither twisted nor oblique. Style slender. Ovary silky- 
villous. 
Leaflets usually more than 9. Calyx-lobes lanceolate. Plant hoary or 
almost mealy-pubescent. Leaflets linear or oblong. Flowers large, 
few, on long peduncles 4. S. phacoides. 
Leaflets usually under 9. Calyx-lobes subulate or very short. Plants 
usually low or procumbent. 
Plant slightly hoary. Leaflets obovate. Flowers small, few, in short 
racemes 5. S. oligophylla. 
Plant glabrous or slightly hoary. Leaflets lanceolate or linear, apute. 
Flowers few, in short racemes 10. S. oroboides. 
Keel oblique or laterally twisted. Style firm, readily twisting. Ovary 
glabrous or nearly so. Leaflets few, lanceolate, acute. Ovary quite 
sessile 6. S. campylantha. 
C. Standard without any callosities, the claw usually short, broad and thin. Pod various. 
Keel spirally twisted, without callosities. Pod sessile, oblong. Standard f 
to lin. broad. Pod above lin. long, the upper suture intruded, but not 
completely dividing it 7. S. procumbens. 
Leaflets shorter, broader, and more frequently hirsute. Flowers smaller, 
the keel less twisted. Pod shorter and more turgid 8. S. oncinotropis. 
Keel neither twisted nor callous. 
Style firm, flattened, hooked or inflexed at the end, bearded only along 
the inner side. Plant hoary or mealy. Leaflets narrow. Stipules 
broad 9. S. phacifolia. 
Style slender, not hooked, bearded only along the inner side. 
Racemes pedunculate, exceeding the leaves. 
Pod rarely under fin. long. Keel very obtuse. Leaflets 3, 5, or 
rarely 7, lanceolate, acute. Standard with a rather thick narrow 
claw. Calyx rarely with black hairs 10. S. oroboides. 
Pod less than Jin. long. Flowers small. Keel much incurved. 
Leaflets small or narrow 11. S. monticola. 
Racemes few-flowered, much shorter than the leaves. Flowers very 
small 12. S. luteola. 
Style slender, not hooked, with a tuft of hairs at the end on the back 
behind the stigma, besides the longitudinal beard, which is often 
slight. 
Ovary and pod sessile. 
Leaflets linear, acute, lin. long or more 13. S. parviflora. 
Leaflets obcordate or cuneate-emarginate, under 4 lines long . . .14. S. microphylla. 
