Pycnosrora. LEGUMINOS. 197 
remaining after the other petals. Stamens 10, monadelphous. Ovary linear- 
terete. Style ascending. Stigma capitate. Legume compressed, 2-valved, 
oblong-linear, rostrate, 2-nerved on the back, close to junction of the valves, 
with cellular spurious partitions between the seeds. Seeds 7-8, obovate or 
truncated on one side, compressed. Inner coat of the seed swollen, and re- 
sembling albumen.—Annual, erect. Stipules subulate. Leaves pinnately tri- 
foliate : leaflets ovate, dentate, glaucous, exstipulate. Racemes axillary, very 
short. Flowers small, erect, purplish. Hairs of the whole plant attached by 
their middle. 
614. (1) C. psoraloides (DC.)—DC. prod. 2. p. 216 ; Wail.! L. n. 5920; 
Wight! cat. n. 869.—Dolichos psoraloides, Lam. enc. meth. 2. p. 297.—D. fa- 
beeformis, L'Her.; Spr. syst. 9. p. 251; Rowb. fl. Ind. 3. p. 316.—Psoralea te- 
tragonoloba, Linn. mant. p. 104.—Trigonella tetrapetala, Roab. in E. I. C. 
mus. tab. 413.—Lupinus trifoliatus, Cav. ic. 1. t. 59. i 
De Candolle states that the keel consists of two distinct petals: we have 
always found them combined towards the apex, although distinct at the base. 
C. Stems herbaceous or suffrutescent, often twining : leaves various; primordial ones op- 
posite, similar to each other: stamens usually diadelphous : legume 1-celled.—Cli- 
toriee. DC. 
IX. PYCNOSPORA. Brown mst. 
Calyx without bracteoles, deeply 4-cleft ; segments about equal in length, 
. upper one broadest, bifid at the apex. Petals inserted into the bottom of the 
calyx, about equal in length; vexillum free, broad, rounded: keel obtuse, 
cohering with the al, both free from the stamen-tube. Stamens diadelphous 
(9 and 1), somewhat persistent : anthers all roundish and perfect. Ovary li- 
near, compressed: ovules numerous, on short slender podosperms. Style 
glabrous. Stygma obtuse. Legume oblong, inflated, straightish on the semi- 
niferous margin, convex at the dorsal suture, 1-celled : valves scarious, marked 
with numerous transverse slightly branched and anastomosing veins. Seeds 
(immature) numerous, small, peritropal, compressed, thickest at the one end. 
Suffrutescent, diffuse, branched, pubescent. Leaves pinnately trifoliate : leaf- 
lets with two partial setaceous stipules, cuneate-obovate, sprinkled with short 
hairs, more abundantly on the under side where they are paler or slightly 
glaucous and strongly nerved. Stipules subulate. Racemes terminal, many- 
flowered, pubescent or hairy: bracteas scarious, striated, ovate-lanceolate 
with a long subulate point, deciduous. Flowers small, purplish, pedicellate, 
in pairs or threes from the axil of each bractea. Legumes sprinkled with 
Spreading hairs. Ev 
i smodium i i ria in c er. We 
Mor eet pod dateien in rem Lund ghe Storr attached to a plant 
from New Holland, which seems not only to be a congener ipm e£ qwe ne c9 
į apparently the same species. As, however, we are not so l neri i 
615. (1) P. nervosa (W. & A.)—Wight! cat. n. 988.—Crotalaria? nervos 
Graham ! * Wall.! L. $ daa! “ea polysperma, Moon ?—Courtallum 
X. PSORALEA. Linn. ; Lam. ill. t. 614. 
Sepals 5, combined to the middle into a permanent 5-cleft calyx ; the tube 
usually covered with glands; divisions acuminated, the lowest one some- 
