Taverniera. | XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). 141 
the standard 4 lines broad. Pod shortly stipitate, 4-6 lines long, } in. 
broad, with 2—3 joints, densely bristly on the faces. 
Nile Land, Nubia, (teste Schweinfurth.) 
3. T. Schimperi, Juub. et Spach. Illust. Pl. Or. t.474, A copiously 
branched shrub 2 or 3 ft. high with erecto-patent terete subglabrous 
branches. Leaves usually simple, casually pinnately trifoliolate, the 
ae + in. long, finely silky, geniculate and articulated at the apex, 
lade obovate, 3-1 in. long, 4-2 in. broad, the apex rounded, both sides 
oe and glaucous. Stipules connate into a single small bifid 
town scarious deltoid sheath round the base of the petiole. Flowers 
very deciduous, in 2—6-flowered racemes on rigid erecto-patent pedun- 
cles 1-1} in. long from the axils of the leaves. Pedicels glabrous, 
equalling the campanulate calyx, which is 2 lines deep, the teeth linear 
or lanceolate, reaching halfway down. Corolla rose-red, persistent, 
2-8 in. deep, the i ee 3 in. broad, the wings not more than 2 lines 
deep by half as broad. Pod 4_ in. long, with two or three articula- 
tions, densely muricated with long bristles all over the surface.—T7. cy- 
clophylla, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. 23829. 7. floribunda, Schweinf. 
Fl. Aithiop. 17. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 
4. T. abyssinica, 4. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 206. A much branched 
shrub with terete pubescent branches. Leaves simple, small, short- 
stalked, obovate or obovate-oblong, glabrous above, paler and grey- 
silky beneath, the stipules as in the preceding. Flowers reddish, in 
few-flowered short-stalked axillary racemes. Calyx silky, the teeth 
harrow, acute. Pod linear, with 2-3 joints, clothed with white silky 
hairs.—Onobrychis simplicifolia, R. Br. in Salt, App. Ixv. ? 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Petit. 
33. ONOBRYCHIS, Gertn.; Benth. et Hook. f Gen. Plant. i. 511. 
Calyx-teeth subulate. Standard ‘obovate, narrowed at the base, 
scarcely unguiculate ; wings small ; keel obtuse, equalling or longer than 
the standard. Upper stamen free at the base, connate with the others 
at the middle in a closed tube; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, 1—-2- 
ovulate. Style filiform, inflexed, with a small terminal stigma. Pod 
subcompressed, half or quite orbicular, inarticulated, indehiscent ; seeds 
~2.—Herbs or undershrubs. 
A large genus, principally Mediterranean. 
+ 6. Richardi, Baker. Stem herbaceous, erect, densely clothed 
with white tomentum. Stipules lanceolate, scarious. Leaves long- 
Stalked, the leaflets lanceolate or sublinear, glabrous above, silky be- 
neath principally on the edge and veins. Racemes long-stalked, 
equalling the leaves when in flower, twice as long when in fruit. 
ods suborbicular, emarginate at the base, densely setose-tomentose, 
