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vate to oblong and linear, .02 to .03 long, truncate or retuse, miicronate; 

 stipules minute, semi-hastate, the upper triangular. Racemes 2-4-flow- 

 ered; calyx moiety corolla yellow, at length coppery, .02 long, pod glab- 

 rous, oblong, flattened — May — Hedges and fields ; between Hadidah 

 and Hems ; Aintab, and northward 



6. V. sativa, L. © Baqiyah. .3 to .6, pubescent, climbing. 

 Leaflets 6-7 pairs, obovate to oblong, truncate or retuse ; stipules semi- 

 hastate, dentate, rarely entire. Flowers 1-2 ; corolla moiety .02 long ; 

 pod pubescent, yellow or rusty-colored, linear, .04 to .06 long, .005 to 

 .008 broad, more or less compressed, tondose — Spring — Cultivated 

 everywhere as fodder, and sub-spontaneous. 



Var. glabra, Post. Glabrous. Flowers solitary. Pods glabrous, 

 turning black — Mountains north of Beilan. 



7. V. au§^astifolia, Roth. © .3. to .5, sparingly pubescent, 

 erect or climbing. Leaflets 4-7 pairs, lower obovate, retuse, the others 

 ohlong^linear to linear, retuse or acute ; stipules semi-hastate, deeply 

 dentate. Flowers 1-2 ; covo\\?i 'oiolet ; pods linear, .04 to .05 long, 

 .006 broad, pubescent or glabrous — Spring — Common in fields. 



Var. albiflora, Boiss. Flowers white. 



Var. cordata, Boiss. Some or all of the leaflets obcordate or 

 obcuneate — Jebel Qaisun (Damascus), and eastward. 



Var. amphicarpa, Boiss. Leaflets cuneate to linear. Some of 

 the branches bearing flowers without corollas, and white, often ovate, 

 1-seeded pods — Southern Palestine. 



8. V. lathyroides, L. © .1 to .2, velvety -hairy, ascending. 

 Leaflets 2-4 pairs, the lower obovate-oblong, truncate or retuse, mucro- 

 nate, the upper linear, acute, mucronate ; stipules semi-sagittate, entire. 

 Flowers minute, axillary, solitary, nearly sessile ; pods linear, somewhat 

 flattened, .02 to .03 long, .003 to .004 broad, tapering-mucronate — 

 Spring — Djurd Hadath ; woods of Gilead. 



9. V. cnspidata, Boiss. © .1 to .2, hairy, ascending. Leaf- 

 lets 4-5 pairs, those of lower leaves obcordate, or obovate-cuneate, re- 

 tuse, those of the upper lanceolate-linear, tapering into a long cusp ; 

 stipules semi-ovate, the upper semi-sagittate. Pods linear, somewhat 

 flattened, .04 long, .005 broad, long-beaked — Jebel 'Antar (Antileba- 

 non) ; Southern Palestine. Probably only a variety of the last. 



10. v. mollis, Boiss. et Haussk. © .2, mllous, erect. Lower 

 leaves ending in a mucro, upper in a simple tendril ; leaflets 4-6 pairs, 

 those of lower leaves cuneate, of upper linear-cuneate, retuse, mucro- 

 nate ; stipules semi-sagittate, entire. Peduncles 2-3-flowered ; corolla 

 .01 long, rusty-yelloic; pods stipitate, flatfish, oblong, .02 to .025 long, 

 appressed-hirsute — March — Fields ; Aleppo. 



11. V. peregrina, L. © .2 to .4, appressed-puberulent ; 

 stems slender, procumbent or erect. Leaflets 3-5 pairs, linear, tapering 

 at base, truncate or retuse, mucronulate ; stipules minute, obtriangular, 

 2-parted into subulate divisions. Peduncles 1-flowered ; corolla jmr- 

 ple, .015 to .02 long; pods stipitate, flattened, appressed- hairy, oblong, 

 .03 long, .006 broad, short-beaked — Spring — Fields ; common. 



Var. parviflora, Post. Flowers .01 long— Woods ; Gilead. 



