. The natural history of plants. Botany. LEGUMIN08JS-PAPILI0NACE2E. 221 plious stamens whose tube is split above, and arillate seeds. It con- tains the genera Bossicea (fig. 192), Platylobium, Templetonia, Hovea, and 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
. The natural history of plants. Botany. LEGUMIN08JS-PAPILI0NACE2E. 221 plious stamens whose tube is split above, and arillate seeds. It con- tains the genera Bossicea (fig. 192), Platylobium, Templetonia, Hovea, and 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 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Baillon, Henri
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