acute at the edge. Cells 2. Palves 2. Partition placed 

 crossways to the valves, opening at the edge on each side. 



Seeds solitary, egg-shaped. 



N. B. The appendages to the carina are different in different 



species, and in many they are not to be found, 



KEDYSARUM. 



Calyx. Ferianthium l leaf, with 5 shallow clefts, *gme*fr 



awl-shaped, erect, permanent. 

 Corolla, butterfly-shaped, scored. 



Fexillum reflected and compressed, egg-oblong, notched 

 at the end, long. 



Ala: oblong, narrower than the other petals, straight. 

 Carina straight, compressed, broader at the outer part 5 

 and transversely obtuse, cloven from the base to the bulging 

 part. 

 Stamina. Filaments 10, 9 united, bent at a right angle. An- 



thera roundish, compressed. 

 Pxstillum. Germen slender, compressed, strap-shaped. Sty It 



awl-shaped, bent like the stamina. Stigma undivided. 

 Pericarpium Legu men with roundish joints, compressed, 



with 2 valves and l seed in each joint. 

 Seeds kidney- shaped, solitary. 



N. B. The Hedysarum Onohrychis has a legumen of only 1 

 joint, and a single seed. 



HYPERICUM. 



Calyx. Ferianlhium with 5 divisions j segments somewhat egg- 

 shaped, concave, permanent. 



Corolla. Petals 5, oblong-egg-shaped, blunt, expanding, 

 bending from left to right. 



Stamina. Filaments numerous, hair-like, connected at the 

 base into 3 or 5 sets. Anther* small. 



Pjstilla. Germen roundish. Styles 3, (sometimes l? 2, or 

 5,) simple, distant, as long as the stamina. Stigmata simple 

 2 



