Triijondla.] * xL. leguminos^. ]87 • 



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,in species not Australian, flat and falcate, or short with a long heak, 2- 

 valvedor iudehisceut. Seeds not strophiolate. — Herbs, often stron-j;-scei)ted. 

 Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, the leaflets iisuallv denticulate". Stipules iiduate 



to the petiole. Flowers yellow white or blue, in axillary heads umbels or short 

 racemes. 



The genns is rather numerous in species in the warmer extratropical regions of the northern 

 hemisphere in the Old World, one of the common ones being also fouuJ iu South Africa, 

 the oil y Austrahan spe'^ies is very nearly allied to an Egyptian one, although not quite 

 Identical with any form hitherto observed there. 



1. T. suavissima, Liudl. in Mitch. Three Exped. i. 255. An annual, 

 either quite glabrous or sprinkled with a few hairs on the under side of the 

 kayes and on the calyxes, the steins prostrate or ascending, fi'om | to 2 or 3 

 ft. m length. Leaflets broadly obovate or obcordate, rarely above \ in. long, 

 more or less denticulate, on a long slender petiole. Stipules, seniisagittiite, 

 fleeply toothed. Flowers small, yellow, in sessile clusters. Calyx about 2 

 .Imes long, the lobes lanceolate-subulate, rather rigid, fully as long as the 

 |uue. Standard longer than the calyx ; wings and keel scarcely shorter. 

 l^pper stamen free. Pod linear, curved, almost obtuse, \ to | in. long, and 

 about 1 line broad, opening in 2 thin reticulate valves, either flat or undulate. 



N. S.Wales. On the Darling river, Mitchell, also Victoriati Ej-jiediiion ; Molle's 



Plains, J. Cunningham. 

 Victoria. Wimmera, Dallachj. 

 a. Australia. Central Australia, M'Kinlmi's Expedition; grassy and saline plains 



W. Australia. Between Moore and Murchison rivers, Brttmmond, &(h Coll. n. 30. 

 in s a!.^-*^*^"^* ^* closely allied to T. liamosa of the northern hemisphere, which is also found 

 ° ■ -y'''p»> aTiJ to the E. Slediterraneaa T. microcarpa, Poir., and T. aiiguina, Dclile, but 

 »«t quite ideutical with either. ' 



Tribe IV. Eulote.€.— Herbs, rarelv shrubs. Leaves pinnate or some- 

 "mes apparently digitately 3-foliolate, the lowest pair of leaflets taking the 

 P'''ce oj stipules ; leaflets entire. Flowers capitate or umbellate, on axillary 

 peuuncles. Upper stamen usually free, at least at the base 

 >n a sheath ; filaments either all or 5 only dilated towards I 



articulate. 



the others united 

 the end. Pod uot 



29. LOTUS, Linn. 



Calyx-lobes nearly equal or the lowest longer. Standard obovate or orbi- 



I > Jeel much incurved, beaked. Upper stamen free, the rest united m 



Sheath; filaments, above the sheath, alteniately dilated near the top; an- 



jrs uniform. Ovary sessile, with several ovules; style bent above the 



J^'^ glabrous, with a terminal stigma. Pod usually linear, terete, with cel- 



" partitions between the seeds. Seeds not strophiolate.— Herbs, or, ni 



lulf 



£fics not Australian, undershrubs. Leaves of 4 or 5 leaflets, 3 almost 

 -".ite at the end of the petiole, 1 or 2 close to the stem, taking the p.ace 

 ^^tipides. Real stipules reduced to minute tubercles or dark spols, or en- 



an ^ \vauting. Flowers yellow pink or white, usually several together in 

 ' J'"ljel, on an axillary peduncle, with a h-af-like bract under the umbel. 



Old \vi^?.°" V' widely spread over ihe temperate regions of the norll>eru hemisphere in the 

 mL^ ' ^^ "n^u-Jtains of tropical Asia, and extratropical South Africa Of the Austrahan 

 ' °"« '»« a very wide European aud Asiatic rnnge, the other i* eudemic. 



