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erect or shrubby, and tlie latter genus bas digitate leaflets, but these have all the habit of 

 Genistea rather than of Galegea, and are distinguished from the former by their upper 

 stamen free. Pycnosjiora, placed in Hedysareis, has the technical characters almost of 

 FhaseoIeiSj but is too evidently allied to Desmodium to be removed far from it. AhruSy 

 with its numerous leaflets, is a still further departure from the normal characters of Pha- 

 seoIecBj but is placed at the end of the tribe as closing the series of more or less herbaceous 

 Papilionaccse. 



50. CLITORIA, Linn. 



(Neurocarpum, Desv.) 



Calyx tubular, the 2 upper lobes slightly connate, the lowest narrow^. 

 Standard large, erect, open, narrowed at the base without auricles; wmgs 

 shorter, spreading, adhering to the keel in the middle ; keel shorter, incurved, 

 acute. Upper stamen free or more or less united with the others ; anthers 

 uniform. Ovaiy stipitate, with several ovules, style elongated incurved, move 

 or less dilated upwards and bearded longitudinally on the inner side. Pod 

 linear, flattened, the upper or both sutures thickened, the sides flat or convex, 

 occasionally bearing a raised longitudinal rib. Seeds globose or flattened, 

 without any strophiole.^ — Herbs or shrubs, short and erect or with long twining 

 branches. Leaves pinnate with 3 or several leaflets, or occasionally only 1, 

 usually stipellate. Stipules persistent, striate. Flowers large, solitary or 

 clustered in the axils, or in pairs crowded in* short racemes. Bracts stipule- 

 like, persistent, the lower ones in pairs, the upper ones united into one. 

 Bracteoles like the bracts or larger, persistent. 



A considerable Amencan genus, with a few African and Asiatic tropical species. Ine 

 Australian one is endemic, its nearest affinities being S. American. The C. Temaiea, wnH 

 pinnate leaves, the most common Asiatic and African one, very generally cidtivated tor or- 

 nament, has not yet been found in Australia. The genus is readily distinguished by its large 

 tubular calyx. 



1. C. australis, Benth. Stems herbaceous but hard, erect, flexuose, 1 

 to 2 ft. high, scarcely branched, pubescent with appressed silky hairs. Leat- 

 lets 1 or 3, ovate, obtuse, rarely shortly acuminate, \\ to 2^ in. long, g abroiij 

 above, silky-pubescent underneath, the lateral ones when present smaller aiu 

 at a distance from the terminal one. Stipules broadly lanceolate. Pcanucles 

 axillary, very short, bearing a cluster of 2 or 3 pairs of white flowers aeary 

 1^ in. long. Bracts narrow, acuminate. Calyx about i in. long,^the lo e 

 acuminate and acute, about as lonj:: as the tube.* Standard nearly la i"- ^°^^^' 



Winers 



Pod not seen. 



Wr. Australia. Aruheni S. iJay, U. Brown {Herb, i2. Br). I have been unable o 

 adopt Brown's MS. name which is now preoccupied in the genus. 



51. GLYCINE, Linn. 



(Leptolobium, altered to Leptocyamus, Benth.) 



Calyx 2 upper lobes united in a 2-toothed or 2-lobed upper lip. ^^^I|^jjL 

 nearly orbicular, without inllexed auricles at the base; wings narrow, si^ ^J 

 adhering to the keel; keel obtuse, shorter than the wings. ^PP^^^t g-ge; 

 at first united with the others in a closed tube, often becoming at lengtn » 



anthers uniform, 

 curved, with a terminal 



Ovaiy nearly sessile, with several ovules; ®^3^'^.f^°^^ithy 

 linal stigma. Pod linear or falcate, 2-valvcd, with F 



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