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Keel bulging in the lower part, closed above, taper- 
ing to a point, ascending, short. 
Stam. Filaments 10, ascending, 9 united, broadish at the 
ends. -dnthers small, simple. 
Pist. Germen cylindrical, oblong. Style simple, ascend- 
“ing. Summit a dot, bending inwards. 
S$. Vess. Legumen cylindrical, stiff and straight, filled full, 
longer than the cup, valves 2, cells many. 
SEEDS many, cylindrical. . 
MEDICA/’GO. Tourn. 231. Gertn. 155. 
Cau. wei 1 leaf, straight, bell-shaped-cylindrical, with 
shallow clefts, tapering to a point, equal. | 
Boss, pottery shapes ee 4s 
tandard egg-shaped, entire, bent inwards at the 
anges egg-odiol Ixed to the appendage of the 
pre roaching at the sides under t PA ett 
Keel oblong, cloven, expanding, blunt, bent down- _ 
wards by the pistil, and with the standard forming a 
gaping mouth, . 
Sram. Filaments 10, united almost the whole length. 
__ Anthers small. 
Pisr. Germen standing on a little fruit-stalk, oblong, 
bowed inwards, compressed, inclosed by the filaments, 
bursting out of the keel, pe gp back the standard, 
efiding in a stye which is short, awl-shaped, generally 
__ straight, Summit terminating, very small. 
S. Vass. Legumen compressed, long, bent inwards. 
SzEDs many, kidney-shaped, orangular, 
_ Os. The Legumen in some species is bent like a sickle; 
i Others it is spiral like a snail-shell. Linn. 
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