280 LEGUMINOS^. (pulse FAMILY.) 



bent, simple. Leaflets 4- 

 7 pairs, wedge-oblong to 

 linear, retuse. Flowers 

 axillary, nearly sessile, 

 single or rarely twin ; 

 pods straight, or slightly 

 curved; rings of seeds 

 more or less complete, 

 more or less papillary or 

 glabrous, sinus of seed Pod of Hippocrepis, unisiliquosa. 



looking toward concavity of pod — Spring — Fields ; common along 

 coast, and in lower mountains and interior plains. 



Var. biflora, Post. 2-flowered. Rings of seeds complete, edges 

 overlapping — Coast. (R. lijiora, Spreng.) 



2. H. multisiliquosa, L. .3 to .5, sparingly appressed- 

 hairy or giabrescent, decumbent. Leaflets 4-7 pairs, oblong-linear, often 

 retuse. Peduncles 2-8-Jfowered, about as long as leaves ; pods strongly 

 curved, sometimes circular, glabrous or scabrous-hairy at seed, smus com- 

 pletely closed, looking toward tlie convex margin of pod — Spring — 

 Fields ; coast and lower mountains. 



3. H. ciliata, Willd. © .2 to .4, sparingly appressed-liairy, 

 decumbent. Leaflets 4-5 pairs, linear, truncate or retuse. Peduncles 

 2-5-flowered, about as long as leaves ; pods curved, scabrous-hairy at 

 seeds, sltius looking toicai^d concave margin of pods — Spring — Samaria ; 

 eastern side of Dead Sea. 



* * Margins of sinus ending in more or less elongated, divergent hmiis. 



4. H. cornigera, Boiss. MedaMn. .2 to .3, sparingly ap- 

 pressed-hairy, decumbent. Leaflets 3-5 pairs, oblong to linear, retuse. 

 Peduncles somewhat longer than leaf, 2-4-flowered ; pods papillary- 

 hairy or giabrescent, scorpioid, with one or two circular turns, sinus 

 more or less closed, looking toward the convex margiji of p>od — Spring 

 — Sandy places ; south end of Dead Sea to Sinai and Egypt. 



40. HEDYiSARUM, L. Hedysarum. Androsarun. 



Calyx campanulate, 5-toothed. Standard narrow at base ; wings 

 short or elongated ; keel obliquely truncate at base. Vexillar stamen 

 free. Ovary many ovuled ; style filiform ; stigma somewhat sessile. 

 Pod flattened, jointed, crenate at sutures, joints several, rarely by ab- 

 ortion 1, nearly round or quadrate, indehiscent — Shrubs or herbs, 

 with odd-pinnate leaves and flowers in axillary, peduncled racemes or 

 spikes. 



* Stipides lateral, free. Pods armed loith liooTced pricTdes. 



1. H. spiiioMSSimuiu, S. et S. .2 to .8, appressed-pubes- 

 cent, decumbent. Leaflets 4-7 pairs, glabrous on upper, pubescent on 

 lower surface, obovate to oi long-elliptical, .005 to .01 long, truncate 

 or retuse. Peduncles longer than leaf ; flowers 2-8, racemed-capitate, 

 pink ; joints of pod round, .OOG in diameter, densely pubescent — 

 Spring — Dry flelds ; Palestine. 



