Pratt LVI. 
CYTISUS Arpornt, Fournier. 
Natural Order LegumMrinos#. 
Gen. Coar.—Calyx-teeth or lobes short, two upper ones united into 
a lip or free. Standard suborbiculate or ovate; wings obovate or 
oblong; eel straight or incurved, obtuse or scarcely acuminate, claws 
free. Stamens all united into a closed tube; alternate anthers shorter, 
versatile, the longer ones attached by the base. Ovary sessile or rarely 
stalked, containing many ovules; s¢y/e incurved, glabrous, the terminal 
stigma oblique or capitate. Pod compressed, flat, oblong or linear, 
glabrous or hairy, of two valves. Seeds strophiolate.* Leaves some- 
times digitately 3-foliolate, sometimes having but one or no leaflet. 
Stipules minute. Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. ii. 484. 
Spec. Coar.—V lowers yellow, 1-6 in the axil of each leaf, usually 
secund ; pedicels about twice calyx, without bracteole, hairy. Calyx 
campanulate, scarious in upper half, hairy, lips divergent, upper lip 
entire or indistinctly bidentate, lower lip indistinctly 3-toothed. Stand- 
ard orbicular, abruptly narrowed into a short claw, incurved at edges 
(and thus simulating many species of Genista), quite glabrous; wings 
about as long as standard; feel slightly shorter than wings, somewhat 
pointed, but not rostrate, glabrous, the two petals which form the keel 
free, except close to the claws, each having on the outer side, near the 
base of the limb, a conical prominence corresponding to a depression in 
the adjacent wing. Pod hairy, compressed, nearly flat on either side, 
oblong, attenuate at base into a stalk. Leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets ob- 
ovate, hairy, small, silky when young. Stems rod-like, generally de- 
cumbent, many springing from a knotty and twisted stock. 
Cytisus Ardoini, Fournier, Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. xiii, (Comptes Rend. 
1866), p. 389; Ardoino, Fl. Alp. Mar. p. 93. 
Hapitar.—Mont Cima d’Ours, near Mentone, collected in flower 
only by my father, April 22, 1867; the pod (Fig. 6) gathered by the 
Rev. William Hawker in May, 1866. 
Remarxks.—This very pretty, newly-discovered species is only known 
to grow on the summits of three mountains near Mentone, namely, 
Cima d’Ours, the Aiguille, and Mont de Meras. It has been named 
after the author of the ‘ Flore des Alpes Maritimes,’ whose name is so 
- intimately associated with thg botany of the neighbourhood of Mentone. 
* Messrs. Bentham and Hooker depend principally upon this character for the dis- 
tinction between Cytisus and Genista. A strophiole or caruncle is an enlargement of 
the outer coat of the seed, forming a scar, wart, or other excrescence. 
