h^ 



PAPILIONACE^. 97 



Small trailing plant , young parts with many black dots . 



p. 112. INDIGOFERA. 



Shrub or herb ; leaflets and petals with red dots . . . 



p. 121. FLEMINGIA. 



f Pod divided into one-seeded pieces opening along one edge 



i^ only . /. 114. DESMODlUiM. 



i Pod opening by both edges j twining plants . . . f 



r Leaflets, etc., with red dots : flowers in stalked pairs . . 



j ^ /. 119. ATYLOSIA. 



[ Flowers in racemes ..... ....... k 



f Keel and style long and coiled in a spiral 



, j /. 119. PHASEOLUS. 



} Keel short, calyx mouth oblique, hardly toothed . . . 



[ /. 118. DUMASIA. 



, r Stamens diadelphous /. 112. indigofera. 



\ Stamens all free ....... ./. 123. sophora. 



{ Leaflets five or seven, very narrow . . /. 114. psoralea. 

 "^ \ Leaflets three /. 112. indigofera. 



ULEX. 50 vn. * 



Furze or Gorse. 

 Spiny shrubs, the main branches thickly set with 

 short branches ending in thorns and bearing other short 

 thorns and spine-like leaves. Flowers yellow in masses 

 at the ends of the branches and intermixed with thorns ; 

 pedicelled in the axils of small bracts. Calyx coloured 

 yellow like the petals, deeply divided into two lips, which 

 are finely toothed and hairy ; with two small broad 

 bracteoles at the base. Stamens alternately with short 

 versatile anthers and long rigid ones. Pod short, few- 

 seeded, seeds with strophiole. 



Species about 24 scattered over western Europe and North 

 Africa. 



Name said to be connected zvith the Celtic Ac. 



Ulcx curopaBUS Linn. ; VII * I ; common Gorse. 

 Calyx hairy ; bracteoles i/io to 5^ inch easily seen, 

 hairy, t. 72. Bourne 523. 



An introduction well established near Ootacamund and at Kodai- 

 kanal presumably from Britain, where, as Gorse, Furze or Whin, it is common 



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