140 xlvii. § papilionace2E (baker). [Ornithopus. 



articulations very distinct. Umbels usually bracteate but not so in 

 our plant. — Slender herbs with minute flowers. 

 A small genus, principally European and Mediterranean. 



1. O. coriandrinus, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 113. Stems 

 annual, erect, copiously branched from the base, branches slender, 

 slightly pubescent. Leaves sessile ; rachis about J in. long ; leaflets 

 7—9, opposite or alternate, narrowly oblanceolate, §— \ in. long, J-f 

 line broad, slightly silky, rachis with two small glands at the base in 

 place of stipules. Umbels 2— 4-flowered, on glabrous erect peduncles 

 which about equal the leaves. Pedicels equalling the calyx, which is 

 a line deep, the teeth setaceous, reaching halfway down. Corolla 

 slightly exceeding the calyx. Pod §-J in. long, slightly recurved, 

 with 3—4 globose articulations separated by very narrow septa. — Field, 

 et Gardn. Sert. Plant, i. 49. Antopetitia abyssinica, A. Rich, et Quart. 

 Dill. Dec. PI. Abyss, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. ii. 14, 261, t. 15 fig. 1. 

 A. Rich. PI. Abyss, i. 209. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper ! Quart in- Dillon. 



32. TAVERNIERA, DC. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 511. 



Calyx with a campanulate tube and five subequal teeth. Standard 

 obovate-cuneate ; wings small ; keel as long as the standard, obliquely 

 truncate at the apex. Upper stamen free at the base or altogether ; 

 anthers uniform. Ovary stalked, 1-3-ovulate ; style filiform, inflexed ; 

 stigma terminal. Pod flattened, composed of 1-3 indehiscent 1-seeded 

 joints. — Shrubs with carnoso- herbaceous deciduous simple or pinnately 

 trifoliolate leaves and marcescent flowers. 



A desert genus extending from Egypt and Abyssinia to the North-west of India. 



Leaves trifoliolate 1. T. lappacea. 



Leaves usually or always simple. 

 Pod densely bristly on the faces. 



Flowers 1-2 on a peduncle \ in. long 2. T. cegyptiaca. 



Flowers 2-6 on a peduncle 1-1^ in. long 3. T. Schimperi. 



Pod clothed with white silky hairs 4. T. abyssinica. 



1. T. lappacea, DC. Prod. ii. 339. Stems procumbent, suflruticose, 

 divaricately branched, terete. Leaves trifoliolate ; leaflets fleshy, ob- 

 cordate, villous. Flowers yellowish, 1-2, axillary, shortly stalked. 

 Joints of the pod rough with rigid bristles hooked at the apex. 



Nile Land. Nubia, {teste Schweinfurth.) 



2. T. aegyptiaca, Boiss. Diagn. ix. 113. An excessively branched 

 low shrub with slender virgate subglabrous twigs. Leaves all simple, 

 obovate-cuneate, subglabrous, 2—3 lines long, on slender petioles under 

 a line long. Flowers 1-2 together on an axillary silky peduncle \ in. 

 long. Pedicel very short, finely silky. Calyx 1J-2 lines deep, sub- 

 glabrous, the linear teeth equalling the tube. Corolla red, 5 lines deep, 



