Helminthocarpum.] XLVI. § PAPILIONACEH (BAKER). 61 
diffuse, thinly clothed with close silky pubescence. Leaves subsessile, 
pinnate, with a terminal leaflet and three on each side, all subsessile, 
oblanceolate, }-} in. long, 1-14 line broad, entire, mucronate, finely 
silky. Flowers in short-stalked heads from the axils of most of the 
leaves, 4-6 together. Pedicels shorter than the calyx, which is tubular, 
silky, 1 line long, the teeth deltoid. Corolla between yellow and red, 
twice as long as the calyx. Pod 2 lines across, the point nearly or 
quite brought round to the base.—Antopetitia cancellata, Hochst. in 
Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No, 1108. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Roth! 
15. LOTUS, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 490. 
Calyx with a campanulate tube and five subequal teeth. Corolla 
caducous, free from the staminal tube; standard unguiculate, wings 
obovate ; keel upeurved rostrate. Stamens diadelphous; alternate 
filaments dilated; anthers nearly uniform. Ovary sessile « -ovulate ; 
style upeurved ; stigma terminal or lateral. Pod linear, straight in our 
species, turgid, 2-valved, septate between the seeds.—Herbs with 
usually five leaflets, the lowest pair like stipules. 
pee genus, belonging to the North and South Temperate zones of both hemi- 
spheres. 
Bracts simple. : : 
Calyx-teeth shorter than the tube. . . . . . « « « © 1. Z. tigrensis. 
Calyx-teeth exceeding the tube. 
Pod not much longer than the calyx, 4-6-seeded. 
Stem and leaves silky... 1 3. ws 
Stem and leaves subglabrous . . . . . 
Pod 4-6 times the length of the calyx, 10-12-seeded. 
Flowers usually 2—4 together . Gees 
Flowers usually solitary 
Bracts trifoliolate. 
Flowers in stalked umbels on naked axillary peduncles. 
Whole plant subglabrons . . . . . 1 
Stem, leaves, and calyx densely grey-silky . . . . . . 
Flowers 1-2 together on the branches, and in 3-4-flowered 
Guasi-teeminal winbele <4) Si Pe 
Flowers all solitary, axillary, subsessile. . . . . . . .9 
. LD. nubicus. 
. L. brachycarpus. 
. L. arabicus. 
. L. mossamedensis. 
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. L. corniculatus. 
. L. creticus. 
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ney oF glinoides. 
. L. Gareini. 
1. L. tigrensis, Baker. Stems herbaceous, a foot long, diffuse, 
thinly silky upwards. Leaflets 5, oblanceolate, subsessile, 6-8 lines long, 
thinly silky. Flowers 6-8 in an umbel on a downy peduncle 1 4-2 in. 
long. Bracts solitary, oblanceolate, 3-4 lines long. Pedicels downy, 
a line long. Calyx-tube campanulate, 14-2 lines deep, the teeth 
deltoid-cuspidate, shorter than the tube. Corolla yellow, 5 lines long. 
Pod linear, glabrous, 12—18-seeded ; not seen fully developed. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Tigre, Schimper! 
Like L. arabicus in size and general habit; different in the calyx. 
2. L. nubicus, Hochst. in Kotsch. Herb. Nub. No. 311. Rootstock 
Woody. Stems herbaceous, 3-6 in. long, copiously branched from the 
