318 LEGUMINOS^. (pulse FAMILY.) 



5. O. vag^inalis, Vahl. 5 -2 to .5, wooUy-canescent, viscid ; 

 branches ascending, densely covered with imhrkated, sheathing stipules^ 

 with or without subsessile leaves ; leaflets 1-3, small, fleshy, obovate, 

 denticulate. Flowers in short racemes ; peduncles 1 -flowered, thrice as 

 long as leaves ; calyx-lobes once and a half to ticice as long as top-shaped 

 tube; corolla yellow, .008 long, twice as long as calyx ; pods oblong, 

 .01 long, thrice as long as calyx; seeds (5-8, roughish — Spring — 

 Sandy places along coast ; Antilebanon ; Damascus plain. 



* * Annuals. 

 t Pod pendulous from an erect, non-jointed peduncle, 



6. O. reclinata, L. .2 to. 3, glandular-villous ; stems spread- 

 ing. Leaves petioled, the lowest simple, the others trefoil with obo- 

 vate-cuneate to linear, truncate, serrate leaflets. Flowers .005 long, axil- 

 lary, scattered, or forming a short, leafy raceme, peduncles 1-flowered, 

 stiff, as long as the leaf, recurved at apex, not awned ; calyx-lobes hir- 

 sute, 4-5 times as long as top-shaped tube ; coYoWdi purple, about as long 

 as calyx, pod hirsute, cylindrical, .007 long ; seeds 12-16, rough-tuber- 

 cled — Spring — Sandy fields along coast, and around Dead Sea. 



Yar. minor, Boiss. Foliage crowded ; plants smaller. Corolla 

 and pods shorter than calyx — Aleppo ; Arabia Petrsea and south- 

 ward. 



y. O. pubesceiis, L. Dibbaiqah. .3 to .4, loosely villous 

 and stipitate-glandular ; stem rather stout, with corymbose branches. 

 Leaves rather long-petioled, the flower and higher simple, the others 

 trefoil with large, obovate to elliptical, denticulate leaflets. Racemes 

 terminal, short, dense ; peduncles 1-flowered, nearly as long as calyx ; 

 calyx parted nearly to base into oblong-lanceolate, 5-nerved lobes ; 

 corolla pale yellow, .012 long, somewhat longer than calyx; pod ovate- 

 rhomloid, .01 long, somewhat flattened, shorter than calyx ; seeds 3-3 

 — Spring — Fields ; common. 



t t Pods pendulous, from spreading or erect, jointed peduncles. 



8. O. ornitliopodoicles, L. .2 to .3, Fig. 92. 

 paniculate-branched, glandular-pubescent. Low- 

 est leaves simple, the others trefoil, with ovate to 

 oblong-cuneate, serrate leaflets. Peduncles 1-3- 

 flowered, aristate, somewhat longer than petiole ; 

 calyx-lobes awl-shaped, about 4 times as long as 

 tube, as long as .006 long, yellow corolla ; pod 

 linear-oHlong , flattened, torulose, .03 long, twice to 

 thrice as long as calyx-lobes. Seeds 8-10, coarsely 

 tubercled — Spring — Fields ; coast, lower moun- 

 tains and tablelands. 



9. O. Sicula, Guss. © 1 to .3, hispid and „„,rpol?d„. 

 glandular-pubescent, paniculate-branched irom 



base. Lowest leaves simple, the others trefoil, with oblong to linear^ 

 sharply serrate leaflets. Peduncles 1-flowered, long-aristate, nearly as 

 long as leaves ; calyx-lobes lanceolate-subulate, four times as long as 

 tube, longer than pale yellow, .006 long corolla ; pod hairy, cylindrical 

 .01 long, twice as long as calyx ; seeds 20-36, rough — Spring — Alep- 

 po ; Palmyra ; Judsean desert ; Beirut. 



