48 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEZ (BAKER). [ Adenocarpus. 
bluntish with a faint mucro, not coriaceous, both sides finely grey-silky. 
Flowers 2-8 in close terminal heads. Calyx turbinate, finely silky, the 
two upper teeth lanceolate-deltoid, as long as the tube, the lower lip 
entire, lanceolate, longer. Pod 10-12 lines long, } in. broad, 3—4- 
seeded. 
Lower Guinea. Benguela, rocks of the Morro de Topollo, Dr. Welwitsch! 
7. ONONIS. Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 485. 
Calyx-tube short, lobes equal. Standard orbicular, with a short 
claw; wings obovate-oblong; keel incurved, rostrate. Stamens all 
connate in a closed tube, the alternate filaments all dilated upwards, 
anthers alternately shorter and versatile and longer and fastened near 
the base. Ovary more or less stalked, 2—co -ovulate; style incurved 
or inflexed, glabrous; stigma oblique or capitate. Pod oblong and 
turgid in our species.—Herbs or undershrubs. 
A large genus, with its head-quarters round the Mediterranean, of which a single 
species extends into our limits. 
1. O. Cherleri, Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 162. Stems herbaceous, slender, 
4—8 in. long, copiously and diffusely branched, the whole plant viscous. 
Leaflets 3, obovate-cuneate, apex inciso-crenate, central one stalked. 
Stipules adnate, half-sagittate. Flowers copious, axillary, solitary. 
Calyx 1-8 in. deep, teeth narrow-linear, reaching down nearly to the 
base. Corolla between pink and purple, like the oblong turgid pod 
about equalling the calyx.—A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. 161; Sibth. et Sm. Fl. 
Gree. t. 677; O. parvula, Steud. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. 1102. 0. recli- 
nata, Schweinf. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 
Sea near O. reclinata, from which it differs principally by its smaller flowers and 
poas, 
8. PAROCHETUS. Hamilt.; Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Plant. 
i. 485. 
Calyx-teeth subequal, two upper subconnate. Petals free from the 
staminal tube; standard obovate with a short claw ; wings falcate ob- 
long; keel shorter than the wings, abruptly inflexed, subacute. Sta- 
mens diadelphous, filaments not dilated, and anthers subuniform. Ovar 
sessile, co-ovulate; style inflexed upwards, elabrous; stigma small, 
terminal. Pod linear, finally subturgid, obliquely arcuate two-valved. 
continuous within. : 
A single species. 
i: &. communis, Hamilt. ; DC. Prod. ti, 408. Rhizome slender, 
herbaceous, wide-creeping. Stipules } in. long, ovate, membranous. 
Petioles 3~4 in. long, slender, erect, slightl hairy. Leaflets 3, sub- 
sessile, obcordate, uniform, ? in. long, mata tithes broadot: sacle 
branous, nearly glabrous. Peduncles 1-flowered, arising Saki hal 
