142 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Onobrychis. 
echinate on the edge and both faces.—0. eriophora, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. 
i. 206 non Desv. et DC. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Petit.: : 
We have not seen this, and take our account of it from A. Richard. It cannot be 
O. eriophora, which is a native of Spain, and has the stem glabrous below, thinly silky 
upwards, with woolly pods only half-orbicular, half an inch broad without the spines, 
and the spines of the edge a quarter of an inch long, and flowers half an inch deep. We 
do not know of any described species to which it can be referred. 
34, ALHAGT, Desy.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 512. 
Calyx campanulate, the teeth very short, subequal. Petals equal ; 
standard obovate, shortly clawed; keel incurved, obtuse. Upper sta- 
men free; filaments filiform ; anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile, multi- 
ovulate; style filiform, incurved, glabrous, stigma terminal. Pod 
linear, subterete, smooth, indehiscent, many-seeded, contracted and 
septate between the seeds, the articulations not separating sponta- 
neously.—Rigid, much-branched, spiny shrubs, with simple leaves. 
A small desert species, extending eastward to Songaria and N.W. India. 
1. A. maurorum, Desv.; DC. Prod. ii. 352. An erect wiry much- 
branched glabrous shrub, 1-3 ft. high, armed with copious pungent 
spreading spines an inch or more long. Leaves simple, drooping from 
the base of the spines and branches, obovate-oblong, entire, 1-3 lines 
long, short-stalked, deciduous. Flowers solitary or in few-flowered 
secund racemes from the spines on short pedicels. Calyx } in. deep, 
the teeth deltoid, acute. Corolla red, three times the calyx. Pod 
sickle-shaped, an inch or more long. 
Wile Land. Nubia, Caillaud. 
The common species of the Syrian and Egyptian deserts. 
35. ORMOCARPUM, Beauv.; Benth. et Hook. f, Gen. Plant. i. 515. 
Calyx five-toothed, two upper lobes subconnate. Standard orbicular, 
unguiculate ; wings obliquely obovate; keel broad, incurved, obtuse 
or subacute, equalling the wings. Stamens all united in a sheath, 
which is slit above and afterwards also often below; anthers uniform. 
Ovary multiovulate ; style much inflexed, filiform ; stigma minute, ter 
minal. Pod linear, compressed, longitudinally sulcate-striate, the faces 
often La ees or muricated, the articulations oblong, narrowed to both 
ends.—Tall, often glutinous shrubs. 
A small genus, belting the world in the Tropics. 
Leaves simple ; petiole articulated =e: 
Leaves compound; petiole not articulated. 
Flowers in Jax racemes. Corolla small, yellow, fading . . 2. O. sennoides. 
Flowers arising singly from the branches. Corolla large, 
1. O. verrucosum. 
reddish, persistent 3. O. bibracteatum. 
1. O. verrucosum, Beawy.; DC, Prod. ii, 315. A tree or tall shrub 
with glossy brown glabrous woody branches. Stipules minute, lancee- 
