Victorian Plants. 219 



PSORALEA. 



1028. Leaflets five to seven. 



Depressed, glabrous or somewhat beset with minute 

 hairlets ; leaflets entire, from elliptic- to linear-lanceolar ; 

 racemes rather long, slender ; flowers small, on very 

 short stalklets ; petals blue ; fruit almost black. 



P. teiiax. 



Leaflets three... 1029 



1029. Leaflets entire 1030 



Leaflets denticulated ... ... ... ... ... 1031 



1030. Racemes rather long. 



Glabrous or slightly beset with short hairlets ; leaf -stalks 

 long ; leaflets rather large, from elliptic- to elongate- 

 lanceolar, acute ; racemes spike-like, on long stalks ; 

 bracts lanceolar-ovate ; calyx rather elongated ; petals 

 pink ; fruit almost black, somewhat rough. 



F. adsceudens. 

 Racemes very short. 



Dwarf, diffuse, sparingly beset with hairlets ; leaflets small, 

 from ovate- to narrow-lanceolar ; racemes spike-like, 

 sometimes nearly capitate ; flowers almost without any 

 stalklets ; bracts orbicular-cordate ; lobes of the calyx 

 short ; petals pink ; fruit pale, somewhat beset with 

 short hairlets. P. parva. 



1031. Depressed, calyx elongated. 



Almost grey or whitish from a lanugiiious vestiture ; leaflets 

 from obovate to nearly orbicular ; racemes spike-like ; 

 petals generally blue ; fruits beset with soft hairlets. 



P. eriantha. 

 Erect, calyx abbreviated. 



Much beset with short hairlets ; leaflets from lanceolar- to 

 rhomboid-ovate, generally obtuse ; racemes spike-like, 

 often elongated ; petals pink ; fruit very small. 



P. patens. 

 LOTUS. 



1032. Petals yellow, but with a somewhat brown- or deep- 



reddish tinge. 



Herb, never tall ; stipules very minute ; leaves sessile ; 

 leaflets from narrow-lanceolar to obovate and almost 

 rhomboid ; flowers few in each umbel ; lobes of the calyx 

 about as long as the tube, narrow, much pointed ; fruit 

 thin-cylindrical, straight. L. corniculatus. 



