232 LEGUMINOSJE. ALHBAGI. | 
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B. Leaves simple: flowers racemose or spiked: legumes more or less terete. —Alha- = 
gez, DC. 
XXXV. ALHAGI. Tourn.—Manna. Don. 
Calyx 5-toothed, the teeth small and nearly equal in size. Corolla papi- 
lionaceous: petals about equal in length ; vexillum obovate, folded together ; i 
keel straight, obtuse. Stamens diadelphous (9 and 1). Ovary linear, with — 
several ovules. Style filiform, glabrous, acute. Legume stalked, somewhat 
woody, terete, few-seeded, contracted here and there irregularly with parti- 
tions, not separating into distinct pieces in maturity. Seeds reniform.—Suf- 
frutescent or herbaceous plants. Leaves simple. Stipules very small. Pe- 
duncles axillary, spinescent. Flowers few, reddish, arranged in racemes 
along the pecuncles. s 
714. (1) A. Maurorum (Tourn. :) stem shrubby : leaves obovate-oblong, 
glaucous beneath, glabrous : calyx longer than the pedicels, the teeth acute. 
—DC. prod. 3. p. 352; Wall. L. n. 5760 ; Wight! cat. n. 839.—A. mannife- 
ta, Desv.—Hedysarum Alhagi, Linn. sp. p. 10515 Spr. syst. 3. p. 316; Roxb. 
Jf. Ind. 3. p. 344.— Manna hebraica, Don. 
XXXVI. ALYSICARPUS. Neck. ; DC. 
Calyx persistent, tubular or slightly campanulate, deeply 4-cleft, with the 
upper segment bifid ; segments equal in length. Corolla papilionaceous. Sta- 
mens diadelphous (9 and 1). Legumes terete or slightly compressed, com- 
posed of several 1-seeded joints that separate at maturity.—Herbaceous or 
suffruticose. Stipules and bracteas scariose. Leaves simple, entire, linear 
oval or roundish, often presenting all these forms on the same species. Ra- 
cemes leaf-opposed, or terminal. Flowers pedicelled, usually in pairs, em- 
braced before expansion by a deciduous bractea, purplish, about the length of 
the calyx. ; 
§ 1. Calyx scarcely exceeding the lower joint of the legume, 4-cleft to the mid- 
dle : upper segment deeply bifid ; all of them more or less subulate and ri- 
gid, in fruit patulous and quite distinct from each other (the edges not 
overlapping ) at their base. : 
4. Joints of the legume orbicular, smooth (without reticulations). 
715. (1) A. monilifer (DC. :) suffruticose, diffuse: branches hairy : leaves 
orbicular or cordate-ovate and obtuse, glabrous : stipules about the length of 
the petiole: racemes leaf-opposed, short; flowers in pairs, approximated : 
calyx scarcely so long as the lower joint of the legume, between tubular 
campanulate, deeply 4-cleft, the upper segment bifid ; segments rigid, subu- 
late, in fruit distinct and qne reading: legumes 4—6-jointed, moniliform, 
much contracted between the ee ; joints par ' 
obose, smooth, clothed witha 
hooked pubescence.—DC. prod. 2. p. 353; Wall.! L. n. 5769. c.; Wight! eat. 
n. 806.—Hedysarum moniliferum, Linn.? mant. p. 102; Burm. Ind. t. 52. 
Í- 35 Roxb. fl. Ind. 3. p. 345; Spr. syst. 3. p. 316.— Petiv. gaz. t. 26. f. 4. 
Of Wall. L. n. 5769 we have not seen any letters but the one to which we 
have referred. gh 
5. Joints of the legume reticulated or wrinkled irregularly. 
716. (2) A. nummularifolius (DC.:) suffruticose, procumbent, diffuse : | 
stems branched, glabrous, or slightly. pubescent. towards the base: leaves - 
