. The natural history of plants. Botany. Pl&. 193. Flower (|). \X. PODALTEIA SEEIES. Podalyrid (193, 194) has resupinate irregular hermaphrodite flowers. The cup-shaped receptacle lined by a glandular disk is elongated from before backwards.' From its FodaVyHa Bwcieiiu. bottom springs the gynseceum, while the re- maining organs of the flower are inserted round its margin. The gamosepalous calyx forms a thick sac dividing above into five teeth, equal or slightly unequal, or lobes usually valvate in the bud. The petals, which possess slender claws, form a papilionaceous corolla of vexillary
. The natural history of plants. Botany. Pl&. 193. Flower (|). \X. PODALTEIA SEEIES. Podalyrid (193, 194) has resupinate irregular hermaphrodite flowers. The cup-shaped receptacle lined by a glandular disk is elongated from before backwards.' From its FodaVyHa Bwcieiiu. bottom springs the gynseceum, while the re- maining organs of the flower are inserted round its margin. The gamosepalous calyx forms a thick sac dividing above into five teeth, equal or slightly unequal, or lobes usually valvate in the bud. The petals, which possess slender claws, form a papilionaceous corolla of vexillary aestiva- tion. The Hmb of the standard is broad, siib- orbicular, often emarginate; the wings rather shorter, are irregularly and obliquely obovate; the keel is still shorter, incurved and obovate, obtuse at the apex. The gynseceum consists of a nearly central sessile Podah/na Bwrcieiiu. or subsessile ovary, surmounted by a style whose apex is dilated into a little stigmatiferous head, forming two vertical rows. Within the ovary are an indefinite number of obliquely descending subanatropous ovules whose micropyles look up- wards and outwards. The fruit is a subglobular ovoidal or oblong turgid coriaceous bivalved pod, containing a variable number of incompletely campylotropous seeds, often ascending, with their micropyles downwards and outwards. The funicle dilates at the hilum into a little fleshy aril. This genus consists of some fifteen species of shrubs from South Africa.^ Nearly aU their organs are covered with down. The leaves are alternate simple Pia. 194. Flower, perianth remove^ (A). yria Lamk., Diot., v. 440 (part.)j Suppl., iv. 442; III., t. 327, figs. 3, 4.—DC, Prod/r., ii. 101.—Spaoh, Smt. a Bvffon, i. 167.— Ekdl., G-en., n. 6423.—Bbnth., in Aim. Wien. Mm., ii. 67.—B. H., Qen., 467, ji. 7.—Aphora Nbck., Mlem., n. 1370 (nee Ntttt.). ^ In many species the " calyx " (, the recep- tacle) well deserves its character of "iasi ^
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