214: LEGUMINOSiE. (PULSE FAMILT.) 



7, CALYCOTOUE, Link. Calycotome. Qundaul. 



Calyx membranous, truncate, obsoletely denticulate. Claws of 

 petals free. All the stamens connate in a closed tube. Pod bivalved, 

 the upper suture thickened or 2-wiuged. Seeds not caruncled — Shrubs 

 with forked, stifi branches, spinescent twigs, and digitate, trefoil 

 leaves. 



C villosa, Vahl. ^ 1 ^o 2, branches striate. Leaflets obovate- 

 cuneate, .01 long, somewhat silky below. Flowers pedicelled, crowd- 

 ed at the upper nodes ; calyx densely villous ; pods somewhat 4-angled, 

 the upper suture much broader than the lower, woolly-hirsute — Win- 

 ter and early spring — Roadsides and rocky places ; common. 



8. OEXISTA, L. Woad-Waxen. Whin. 



Calyx bilabiate, the upper lip generally bipartite, the lower trifid. 

 Keel often deflexed. Claws of lower petals often adnate to stamen tube. 

 Stamens all connate in a closed tube, anthers glabrous. Pod more or 

 less flattened, rhombic, ovate, or linear, bivalved. Seedg not carun- 

 cled — Thornless or spiny shrubs, with simple or digitate-trefoil leaves, 

 and yellow flowers. 



* Pod ovate or rhomloid, oUiquely leaded, 1-2-seeded. 



t Flowering branches terminal, spinescent. 



1. O. acanthoclada, D.C. 5 -5 to 1, appressed -hairy ; twigs 

 straight, opposite, terete, striate. Leaves nearly sessile, trefoil ; leaflets 

 linear, folded lengtliwise. Flowers nearly opposite ; pods ovate-rhom- 

 boid — Summer — Nusairy Mountains to Cassius, and northward. 



2. O. sphacelata, Dec. 5 Sparingly soft-hairy ; branches alter- 

 nate, curved, terete, striate. Leaves simple, linear-spathulate to ob- 

 long-spathulate, the upper changed into small, ovate, llach scales. Flowers 

 alternate, forming loose racemes ; pods ovate — Summer — Hills of 

 Central Palestine, and along Phoenician coast. 



1 1 Axillary branches sterile, spinescent. Hacemes terminal, prickly at apex. 



3, 0. Anatolica, Boiss. 5 1-5 to .2 crisp-hairy and tomentellous ; 

 branches decumbent. Leaves simpile, oblong to liuear-spathulate. Ra- 

 cemes short, terminal, with prickly tip. Pods .008 long — June — 



Var. Cassia, Boiss. Crisp-hairy, not tomentellous — Shady places ; 

 Cassius and Amanus. 



* * Fod% linear or dblanceolate, torulose, usually several-seeded. 

 t Corolla marcescent, silky, the standard and keel not deflexed. Unarmed 



shrubs. 



4. O. albida, Willd. 5 -2 to .3, appressed-puberulent, prostrate , 

 branches ascending. Leaves oblong-lenticular, the floral obovate- 

 spathulate. Flowers axillary, solitary or twin, forming short, ter- 

 minal racemes. Pods ,02 long, oblanceolate, acuminate — June — A- 

 manus and northward ; Gilead and Hauran. 



1 1 Gm^olla glabrous, deciduous. Keel deflexed. Unarmed shrubs. 



5, O. patula, M.B. 5 .3 to .5, appressed-puberulent ; branches 

 erect. Leaves lifiear-lanceolate to linear, acute, mucronate. Racemes sin- 



