Biserrula, | XLVII. § PAPILIONACER (BAKER). 139 
multiovulate; style short, thickened, incurved, stigma capitate. Pod 
linear, indehiscent, flattened on the back, compressed vertically, the 
valves each with a sinuate-dentate keel down the centre. 
A single species. 
I. B. Pelecinus, Zinn.; DC. Prod. ii. 8307. Stems annual, weak, 
erect, branched, 4—6 in. high, the branches slender, densely grey-pubes- 
cent. Leaves short-stalked; the rachis 1-1} in. long; the leaflets in 
8-12 pairs, oblanceolate, 2-8 lines long, thinly grey-silky. Flowers 
1-3 together on pubescent slender erect peduncles, equalling or ex- 
ceeding the leaves. Calyx a line deep, silky, the teeth linear, reaching 
nearly halfway down. Corolla cream-coloured, 2-24 linesdeep. Pods 
glabrous, $ in. long, 1 in. broad. B. Jeiocarpa, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. 
Abyss. 1762. A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 194. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! rs obits 
Our description is taken entirely from these specimens, but we cannot distinguis 
the plant as a species from the well known Mediterranean one. 
30. SCORPIURUS, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 508. 
Calyx campanulate, the two upper teeth connate. Petals unguicu- 
late ; keel incurved, rostrate. Stamens diadelphous ; alternate filaments 
dilated; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, cylindrical, multiovulate. 
Pod subterete, circinate, ribbed, articulated, indehiscent. Seeds sub- 
Pls or oblong.— Annuals with simple leaves narrowed into a 
petiole, 
A small genus belonging to the Mediterranean Flora. 
1.8. sulcata, Linn.; DC. Prod. ii. 308. Stems a foot long, diffuse, 
subglabrous. Leaves rather fleshy, 2-3 in. long. Flowers 3-6 on 
Short pedicels in umbellate clusters on long axillary peduncles. Calyx 
8 in, long. Corolla yellow, twice the calyx. Pod 1~2 in. long, with 
one or two spirals, distinctly constricted at the joints, muricated, the 
prickles of the upper row as long as the breadth of the pod.—S. echinata, 
A. Rich. Fl, Abyss. i. 290. 8. subvillosa, Hochst. et Steud. in Schimp. 
Hb. Abyss. 1871. 
Nile Land Abyssini / in-Dillon ! 
. yssinia, Schimper ! Quartin- 
All round the Mediterranean. ig 
31. ORNITHOPUS, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 509. 
Calyx tubular, teeth nearly equal. Standard suborbicular; wings 
oblong ; keel nearly straight, obtuse, shorter than the wings. A 
stamen free, the rest connate; alternate filaments dilated upwards ; 
anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, multiovulate ; atyls inflexed ; stigma 
Capitate. Pod linear, terete in our plant, recurved, the globose turgid 
