NATURAL ORDER LEGUMINOS. 
Tribe—PAPILIONACE. 
Puate [X.—Coronilla valentina Linn. C. Stipularis. Lamarck. 
De Candolle. Woods. 
Generic.—Pod jointed, cylindrical, nearly straight. Stamens having 
the longer filaments dilated at the summit. eel beaked, acuminate. 
Calyx short, campanulate, having the uppermost teeth partly united. 
Leaves imparipinnate, rarely trifoliate. 
Speciric.—Pods drooping, nearly straight, of about seven, more or 
less warted joints. Standard having an obovate recurved limb, and a 
short claw without a scale. Peduncles often longer than the leaves, 
bearing pedicels longer than the Calyx. Stipules orbicular, mucronate, 
quickly falling. Growth, that of a much-branched, low-growing shrub, 
with a strong woody stem ; the whole plant averaging about 3 feet. 
EXPLANATION OF Pirate IX.—This drawing represents Coronilla 
_valentina with its curious jointed pods, and a piece of one of the 
woody branches cut tolerably high up. 
ReEMARKS.—This Coronilla can scarcely be confused with any other 
plant growing at Mentone. Coronilla Emerus is the only other repre- 
sentative growing there as a shrub, and that species has pendant flowers, 
a scale on the interior of the standard, and grows in moist shady places, 
instead of under the scorching limestone rocks chosen by the present 
species. In the gardens, and in some stations in France, is found a 
plant very nearly resembling this, named by Linneus Coronilla Glauca. 
It may be distinguished, I believe, by its having small linear stipules, 
in place of the great orbicular ones found in C. valentina. When 
Grenier and Godron wrote their “ Flora,” no habitat was known for 
this rare and beautiful shrub in France, and their only locality was at 
St. Florent, in Corsica. Near Mentone this plant grows in three or four 
spots, and is most plentiful in the neighbourhood of the Pont St. Louis, 
where the specimens figured were gathered March 9th, 1864. The 
jurassic limestone is the only formation on which I know of it, and its 
favourite soil is formed by the débris from some southern facing cliff, 
among the fissures of which it may strike its roots. 
