48 xlvii. § papilionace.e (baker). [Adenocarpus. 



bluntish with a faint mucro, not coriaceous, both sides finely grey-silky. 

 Flowers 2-8 in close terminal heads. Calyx turbinate, finely silky, the 

 two upper teeth lanceolate-deltoid, as long as the tube, the lower lip 

 entire, lanceolate, longer. Pod 10-12 lines long, J in. broad, 3-4- 

 seeded. 



Lower Guinea, Benguela, rocks of the Morro de Topollo, Dr. Welwitsch ! 



7. ONONIS. Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 485. 



Calyx-tube short, lobes equal. Standard orbicular, with a short 

 claw; wings obovate-oblong ; keel incurved, rostrate. Stamens all 

 connate in a closed tube, the alternate filaments all dilated upwards, 

 anthers alternately shorter and versatile and longer and fastened near 

 the base. Ovary more or less stalked, 2-oo -ovulate ; style incurved 

 or inflexed, glabrous ; stigma oblique or capitate. Pod oblong and 

 turgid in our species. — Herbs or undershrubs. 



A large genus, with its head-quarters round the Mediterranean, of which a single 

 species extends into our limits. 



1. O. Cherleri, Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 162. Stems herbaceous, slender, 

 4-8 in. long, copiously and diffusely branched, the whole plant viscous. 

 Leaflets 3, obovate-cuneate, apex inciso-crenate, central one stalked. 

 Stipules adnate, half- sagittate. Flowers copious, axillary, solitary. 

 Calyx i— | in. deep, teeth narrow-linear, reaching down nearly to the 

 base. Corolla between pink and purple, like the oblong turgid pod 

 about equalling the calyx. — A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. 161 ; Sibth. et Sm. Fl. 

 Gra?c. t. 677 ; 0. parvula, Steud. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. 1102. 0. recli- 

 nata, Schweinf. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 



A T ery near 0. reclinata, from which it differs principally by its smaller flowers and 

 pods. 



8. PABOCHETUS. Hamilt. ; Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Plant. 



i. 485. 



Calyx-teeth subequal, two upper subconnate. Petals free from the 

 staminal tube ; standard obovate with a short claw ; wings falcate ob- 

 long ; keel shorter than the wings, abruptly inflexed, subacute. Sta- 

 mens diadelphous, filaments not dilated, and anthers subuniform. Ovary- 

 sessile, oc-ovulate; style inflexed: upwards , glabrous; stigma small, 

 terminal. Pod linear, finally subturgid, obliquely arcuate, two-valved. 

 continuous within. 

 A single species. 



1. P. communis, Hamilt.; DC. Prod. ii. 403. Rhizome slender, 

 herbaceous, wide-creeping. Stipules \ in. long, ovate,, membranous. 

 Petioles 3-4 in. long, slender, erect, slightly hairy. Leaflets 3, sub- 



sessile, obcordate, uniform, f in. long, usually rather broader, mem- 

 branous, nearly glabrous. Peduncles 1 -flowered, arising from the 



