140 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEZ (BAKER). | Ornithopus. 
articulations very distinct. Umbels usually bracteate but not so in 
our plant.—Slender herbs with minute flowers. 
A small genus, principally European and Mediterranean. 
1. O. coriandrinus, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 118. Stems 
annual, erect, copiously branched from the base, branches slender, 
slightly pubescent. Leaves sessile; rachis about } in. long; leaflets 
7-9, opposite or alternate, narrowly oblanceolate, 3—} in. long, 3-% 
line broad, slightly silky, rachis with two small glands at the base in 
place of stipules. Umbels 2—4-flowered, on vlabrous erect peduncles 
which about equal the leaves. Pedicels equalling the calyx, which 18 
a line deep, the teeth setaceous, reaching haltway down. Corolla 
slightly exceeding the calyx. Pod $—} in. long, slightly recurved, 
with 3—4 globose articulations separated by very narrow septa.—Field. 
et Gardn. Sert. Plant. i. 49. Antopetitia abyssinica, A. Rich. et Quart. 
Dill. Dec. Pl. Abyss. in Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. ii. 14, 261, t. 15 fig. 1. 
A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 209. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper / Quartin-Dillon. 
32. TAVERNIERA, DC.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 511. 
Calyx with a campanulate tube and five subequal teeth. Standard 
obovate-cuneate ; wings small; keel as long as the standard, obliquely 
truncate at the apex. Upper stamen free at the base or altogether; 
anthers uniform. Ovary stalked, 1—-3-ovulate; style filiform, inflexed ; 
stigma terminal. Pod flattened, composed of 1—3 indehiscent 1-seeded 
joints.—Shrubs with carnoso-herbaceous deciduous simple or pinnately 
trifoliolate leaves and marcescent flowers. 
A desert genus extending from Egypt and Abyssinia to the North-west of India. 
CROTON TOR ce ns ek ne ee 2 
Leaves usually or always simple. 
Pod densely bristly on the faces. : 
Flowers 1-2 on a peduncle } in. long . sis we bo 4 et ee 2 
Flowers 2-6 on a peduncle 1-1$in.long . . . . . . . 3. ZT. Schimper 
Pod clothed with white silky hairs ee 4, T. abyssimed- 
1, T. lappacea, DC. Prod. ii. 339. Stems procumbent, suffruticose, 
divaricately branched, terete. Leaves trifoliolate ; leaflets fleshy, ob- 
cordate, villous. Flowers yellowish, 1-2, axillary, shortly stalked. 
Joints of the pod rough with rigid bristles hooked at the apex. 
Nile Land. Nubia, (teste Schweinfurth.) 
2. T. egyptiaca, Boiss. Diagn. ix. 1138. An excessively branched 
low shrub with slender virgate subglabrous twigs. Leaves all simple, 
obovate-cuneate, subglabrous, 2-3 lines long, on slender petioles under 
a line long. Flowers 1-2 together on an axillary silk peduncle } in. 
long. Pedicel very short, finely silky. Calyx 14-2 Tans deep, su?” 
glabrous, the linear teeth equalling the tube. Corolla red, 5 lines deep, 
