278 LEGUMlNOS-fi. (PtTLSE FAMILY.) 



more or less constricted between seeds. Cotyledons contorted — An- 

 nual herbs, with simple, entire, oblong-spathulate leaves tapering into 

 a petiole. 



1. S. sulcata, L. © .2 to .4. Prickles of outer ribs much 

 shorter than diameter of pods ; seed scarcely striate — Spring — 

 Fields ; coast and low lands of interior. Probably a variety of the 

 following more common species. 



2. S. §ubvillO!»a, L. Sillaiqah. .3 to .4. Prickles of outer 

 ribs about as long as diameter of pod, hooked ; seeds striate — Spring 

 — Fields ; common. 



Calyx tubular-campanulate, teeth nearly equal. Keel acute. Pod 

 linear, necklace-like, mucronate or beaked, joints elliptical, turgid, 

 scarcely flattened, slightly reticulate — Perennial herbs with aspect of 

 Dorycnium. 



H. lotoicles, Fenzl. 11 .3, villous, procumbent or prostrate. 

 Leaflets 5, with a very short petiole, often somewhat digitate, obo- 

 vate, the lower stipuloid. Peduncles about as long as leaf, 1-3-flower- 

 ed ; bract trefoil at base of nearly sessile flowers ; calyx-teeth lan- 

 ceolate-subulate, somewhat shorter than tube ; corolla golden-yellow ; 

 pods hairy, .01 to .02 long, .002 broad, of 2-8 joints, beak in the few- 

 jointed pods, elongated — May — Cassius to Amanus, Akherdagh, and 

 northward. 



37. ORXITHOPUS, L. Ornithopus. 



Calyx tubular-campanulate, 5 toothed, upper teeth connate a lit- 

 tle higher than lower. Keel obtuse. Pod linear, terete or flattened, 

 with numerous, cylindrical or truncate-quadrate joints — Annual herbs, 

 with long-peduncled umbels, naked or bracted at base. 



1. O. ebracteatu§, Brot. .3 to .4. Leaves all petioled ; 

 leaflets 5-6 pairs, oblong-linear. Peduncle nailed at apex ; pods cylin- 

 drical^ .Oolong, .001 thick, ending in a somewhat incurved beak — 

 May — Beirut. 



2. O. couipre§su$, L. .2 to .4. Leaves except the lowest 

 sessile ; leaflets 10-16 pairs, oblong-elliptical. Peduncle furnislied at 

 ajtex loitli a yinnate hract^ overto])ping the Jloicers ; 'pod Jiattened, linear, 

 .04 long, .0025 broad, ending in a hooked beak — Spring — Fields ; 

 common along coast and lower hills of coast range. 



3§. CORO:¥IL.L,A, L. Coronilla. 



Calyx short-campanulate, u^^per teeth connate higher up than low 

 er. Keel acute or beaked. Pod elon-ated, straight or curved, terete or 

 tetragonal, somewhat constricted at joints — Shrubs or herbs, with 

 odd-pinnate or ternate leaves. 



* Perennials. Leaves pinnate. 

 1. C. cmeroicles, Boiss. et Spr. 5 -5 to 1, glabrous or spa- 

 ringly appressed-hairy. Stipules minute, triangular ; leaflets 24 pairs, 

 obovate. Peduncles 1-3 times as long as leaves, umbellately 5-8 flow- 

 ered ; claws of petals tioice as long as calyx ; pods linear terete, .05 long, 



