LEGUMINOSiE. CLVI. Dicerma. CLVII. Taverniera. CLVIII. Hedysarum. 



299 



f 



tide ; floral leaves reduced to stipulas, and therefore the flowers vexillum and obliquely truncate keel, which is much longer than 



are disposed in an almost naked terminal raceme. Stipulas the wings. Stamens diadelphous, having the staminiferous tube 



joined, opposite the leaves. The plant in this section is very abruptly infracted. Legume constantly of numerous, flat, orbi- 



different in habit from those species contained in the first sec- cular or lenticular, regular, 1-seeded joints, which are connected 



tion, hut the character of the fructification is verv similar. 



3 D. BiARTicuLA^TUM (D. C. prod. 2. p. S39.) leaflets 3, dis- 

 posed in a palmate manner, obovate-oblong, obtuse, smoothish ; 

 branches and legumes clothed with 

 Tj . S. Native of the East Indies, 

 spec. 1054.— Burm. zeyl. 114. t. 50. f. 2. 



together in the middle, and therefore the sutures are convex on 

 both sides. — Herbs or subshrubs, with impari-pinnate leaves, 



Two-jointed-podded Dicerma. 

 Shrub 2 feet. 



axillary, simple peduncles, bearing racemose spikes of large, 



adpressed pubescence, purple, white, or cream-coloured flowers. This genus is nearly 



Hedys. biarticulatum, Lin. allied to Onobrychis, but differs in the legumes being of many 



joints, not of one joint only as in that genus. All the species 



Fl, July, Aug. Clt. 1808. are very elegant wlien in blossom. 



Sect. 1. Echinolobium" (from £X'''^^» echinosy a hedge-hog, 



CulL This is a genus of elegant shrubs ; they will grow in , "7^^ '' ^.nxr.u.u. ... v--" ^X"-^. ecva...., a ncugcnug, 

 nivtnrp nflnnm .n.l v.nof ../.!..,. w..,. kI ;...i..^ K?. andXo/3oc, lohos, a pod; in reference to the pnckly legumes). 



a mixture of loam and peat, and they may be increased by young D C d 2 ' 



cuttings, planted in sand, with a hand-glass placed over them, •' //™ \ "i^'i*^*^^-" X^^a^i^^ 

 Ar ^^^r ooo.io b 1 > ricatecl, or i^lochidate m the disks. 



340. Joints of legumes villous, ribbed, mu- 



or by seeds. 



CLVII. TAVERNIRRA (in honour of J, B. Tavernier, a 



traveller in the Levant). D. C. legum. mem. vii. prod. 2. 

 p. 339. / & r 



Lix. sYST. Diadelphia^ Decdndria. Calyx bibracteolate at 

 the base, half 5-cleft;' and somewhat bilabiate ; the segments 

 lanceolate-linear, and acuminated. 



* Plants almost stemless, Calycine segments subulate and 



elongated* 



ilium nearly obovate. 

 obtuse. 



Corolla papilionaceous ; vex- 



Wings shorter than the 



^ Stamens diadelphous, straight, or a little inflexed at 



tiie apex. Style filiform, long, flexuous, deciduous. 



1 H. GRANDiFLORUM (Pall. itin. 2. p. 743. t. Y. ed. gall. 



append, no. 367. t. 82.) plant nearly stemless : leaflets elliptic, 



clothed with silky hoary down beneath ; wings of flower equal 



in length to the calyx ; keel shorter than the vexillum ; legumes 



calvx ' Keel jointed, clothed with white villi, wrinkled, having the disks of 



Legume 



constantly of 2 orbicular, compressed, 1-seeded joints.— Shrubs, 



natives of the Levant, with simple and trifoliate leaves, 

 joined together at the base. 



Stipulas 

 _ Flow^ers rose-coloured or white. 



. 1 T. nummula'ria (D. C. leg. mem. vii. t. 52.) leaves all 

 simple, on short petioles, orbicular, mucronate, glaucous, pubes- 

 cent; racemes axillary, few-flowered, much ' 

 leaves. ??, G, 



Kermancha. 



longer 



than the 



Native of the Levant, between Bagdad and 



p. 102. 



Hedys. nummularif olium, D. C. in ann. sc. nat. 4. 



Hedys. Oliverii, Spreng. syst. append, p. 290. 

 clothed with velvetty-hoary down, 

 cording to the dried specimen. 



Money-wort Taverniera. 

 1 to 2 feet. 



Stem 

 Flowers rose-coloured, ac- 



Fl. June, July. Ch. 1826. ' Sh. 



joints muricated with spinules, which are glochidate at the apex. 

 1/ . H. Native of Iberia, the Ukraine, and south of Podolia, on 

 calcareous hills at the Nieper, and at the Irtish. Bieb. cent. 

 pi. ross. 3. t. G3. ex suppl. no. 1445. H. sericeum, Bieb. fl. 

 taur. 2. p. 176. H. argenteum. Lam. in Pall. 1. c. Astragalus 

 grandiflorus, Lin. spec. 1071. — Gmel. sib. 4. t. 31. Corolla 

 large, cream-coloured or pale purplish. 



Great-flowered Hedysarum. 

 ^ to 1 foot. 



2 H. argeVteum (Lin. fil. suppl. S3S.) plant almost stem- 

 less ; leaflets oval or ovate, villous above and clothed with shin- 

 ing silky pubescence beneath ; petioles and peduncles clothed 

 with adpressed pubescence ; calyx shorter than the corolla ; keel 

 twice the length of the wings and about equal in length to the 

 vexillum ; legumes articulated, tomentose, rough. %. H. Na- 



Bieb. fl. 



Fl. June, JuL Clt. 182L PI. 



foliat 

 eel 



i}\ 7^'^T^A (D. C. prod. 2. p. 339.) leaves simple or tri- ^}^^''i ^^''^^T^ A"A?^fJ^f '!' o^. ^'Vo^'^'^'irl!!:'!!:, 

 '"*e; leaflets oblong; racemes axillary and terminal; pedi- 



JJ^s t,v,n, l.flowered, very short. Tj 

 "edys, sparteum. Burm fl inrl ^af 



yellow. 



G. Native of Persia. 

 Burm. fl. ind. 166. t. 51. f. 2. Flowers 



taur. 2. p. 175. — Gmel. sib. 4. p. 30. t. 13. Flowers purple. 

 Silvery Hedysarum. Fl.July, Aug. Clt. 1796. 



PI. i foot. 



^ 



^'■oow-hke Taverniera. Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 

 T.r^ ^V^^^^^'cEA (D. C. prod. 2. p. 339.) stems suffruticose, 

 fet r^"^' branched, divaricate, terete ; ] 

 .1,1; ,^' ^,^^^^^a^^> villous ; flowers l-2.together, axillary on 



legume beset with stiff* bristles, which are hooked 

 apex. 



short pedicel 

 « the 



3 H. ca'ndidum (Bieb. fl.taur. 2. p. 176. and suppl. no. 1144.) 

 plant almost stemless ; leaflets roundish, ovate, pubescent above 

 and clothed with silky white down beneath ; petioles and pedun- 

 cles covered with spreading pubescence ; calyx length of corolla; 



kaves 'trifoiiaie rieaf- ^^"'"^ '^^1,^ the length of the wings, but about equal in length 



to the vexillum ; legumes tomentose, wrinkled, roughish. If . H. 



Native of Tauria, on calcareous hills. 



HeH ^f^^\ ^ • Cr. Native of Arabia Felix, at Lohajam. 

 ays. lapp^ceum, Forsk. descr. 136. Vahl. svmb. 1. d. 54. 



H. argenteum, Willd. 



H. creticeum, 



*- lowers yellow. 



Flowers pale purplish, but at length changing 



spec. 3. p. 1205. exclusive of the synonymes. 

 Pall. ined. taur. 

 to a cream colour. 



Var. /3, humile (D. C. prod. 2. p. 40.) scapes declinate ; plant 

 more humble than the species. %. H. Native of Tauria, 



H. supinum. Pall. ined. taur. H. humile. 



about Sudak. 



supmum 



^"^f""^^^^^^ Fl. Jul. Aug. Clt. 1820. Sh. pr. 



^- bee Dicerma for culture and propagation, p. 298. 



CI VTtt t X X d i auoui ouuaK. i 



ofanl vS^^^'^^^^^ (h^vaapov, hedysaron, is the name Hablitz, taur. 152. 



W!« o^i? . ?P^^^^ ^^d Dioscorides ; said to be from yhg, WhiteAea\ed Hedysarum. Fl. May, Ju. Clt. 1824. PI. | ft. 



4 H. sple'ndens (Fisch. in litt. D. C. prod. 2. p. 340.) stems 

 short ; leaves with 1-3 pairs of ovate leaflets, which are clothed 

 with adpressed silvery-silky pubescence on both surfaces ; pe- 

 duncles or scapes longer than the leaves; spikes racemose, 

 oblong ; wings of flowers shorter than the calyx ; vexillum 

 striated, almost the length of the carina ; legumes clothed with 

 silky pubescence, having 2 reticulately- veined joints. %. H. 

 Native of Siberia, at the river Irtish. Flowers large, pale red. 



•jowevp^^t^**^"^ apw/ia, aroma ^ perfume. The present genus, 

 ther tl ' k ^ "othing to do with the plant of Theophrastus, fur- 

 ^'"i^on^L f ?°^"^ ^^ ^^^ papilionaceous tribe. His plant being 

 ^d mi^- 1 ^^^^^ Grce'cum, from which an oil was extracted 

 3. n 61 ^^f^ pintments by the Hindoos). Jaum. journ. bot. 

 prod 9 ' ^^^*"sive of some species. D. C. legum. mem. vii. 

 . . \'^- P- 340._Echinolobium, Desv. journ. bot. 3. p. 123. 



^ 5. f. 20^21. 



Hedysarum species of Lin. and others. 



menu " T'^' ^'^^dHphia, Dec&ndria. 

 • l'near.subulate and nearlv ea 



Calyx 5-cleft ; the seg- Leaves sometimes unifoliate. Bracteas longer than the pedicels 



nearly equal. Corolla with a large Stipulas joined in one, opposite the leaves 



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