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LEGUMINIFER. 
Sus-Trise 1.—CORONILLEA. 
Pod cylindrical or slightly compressed, not much constricted 
between the joints, which are numerous, rugose with elevated 
lines, but not spiny, and very seldom muricate. Flowers in 
umbellate heads. Leaves pinnate, with an odd terminal leaflet : 
rarely simple. 
GENUS XTUTI—ORNITHOPUS. Linn. 
Calyx cylindrical-bellshaped, with 5 nearly equal teeth, of which 
the 2 upper ones are united at the base. Standard oval, slightly 
spreading, longer than the wings; keel very small, obtuse and not 
beaked at the apex. Stamens diadelphous, the alternate filaments 
dilated at the apex. Pod slender, cylindrical or slightly compressed 
laterally, more or less curved upwards, articulated, breaking into 
numerous 1-seeded indehiscent joints; joints not notched on the 
upper side, reticulated with elevated lines on the sides. 
Small annuals, with leaves having numerous pairs of pinne, 
and very small stipules adnate to the petiole or cohering at the 
base by the margins farthest from it. Flowers in axillary umbellate 
few-flowered heads, yellow, white, or rose-colour. 
The name of this genus is derived from the two Greek words opvec, oovBuc (ornis, 
ornithos), a bird, and rove (pous), a foot, the legumes exactly resembling a bird’s foot. 
Sus-Genus I.—EU-ORNITHOPUS. 
Pod compressed, constricted between the joints, which are 
widest in the middle and taper gradually to each end. 
SPECIES I—-ORNITHOPUS PERPUSILLUOUS. Linn. 
Puate CCCLXXVIII. 
Lower leaves stalked, upper ones sessile; leaflets 7 to 12 pairs, 
hairy. Flower-heads 8- to 7-flowered, with a leaflike pinnate bract at 
the base. Calyx-tube hairy, nearly three times as long as the teeth. 
Pod hairy or sub-glabrous, compressed, constricted between the 
joints, abruptly acuminated into a conical-subulate seedless beak 
nearly as long as the last joint, reticulated with prominent longitu- 
dinal anastomosing veins. 
