Taverniera.] xlvii. § papilionace2E (baker). 141 



the standard 4 lines broad. Pod shortly stipitate, 4-6 lines long", \ in. 

 broad, with 2-3 joints, densely bristly on the faces. 

 Nile Land, Nubia, [teste Schweinfurth.) 



3. T. Schimperi, Jaub. et Spach. Elust. PI. Or. t. 474. A copiously 

 branched shrub 2 or 3 ft. high with erecto-patent terete subglabrous 

 branches. Leaves usually simple, casually pinnately trifoliolate, the 

 petiole J in. long-, finely silky, geniculate and articulated at the apex, 

 blade obovate, J-l in. long-, \- j in. broad, the apex rounded, both sides 

 glabrous and glaucous. Stipules connate into a single small bifid 

 brown scarious deltoid sheath round the base of the petiole. Flowers 

 very deciduous, in 2-6-flowered racemes on rigid erecto-patent pedun- 

 cles 1-1 \ in. long from the axils of the leaves. Pedicels glabrous, 

 equalling the campanulate calyx, which is 2 lines deep, the teeth linear 

 or lanceolate, reaching- halfway down. Corolla rose-red, persistent, 

 J-| in. deep, the standard \ in. broad, the wings not more than 2 lines 

 deep by half as broad. Pod J-§ in. long, with two or three articula- 

 tions, densely muricated with long bristles all over the surface. — T. cy- 

 clophylla, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abvss. 2329. T. Jloribunda, Schweinf 

 Fl. ^Ethiop. 17. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 



4. T. abyssinica, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 206. A much branched 

 shrub with terete pubescent branches. Leaves simple, small, short- 

 stalked, obovate or obovate-oblong, glabrous above, paler and grey- 

 silky beneath, the stipules as in the preceding. Flowers reddish, in 

 few-flowered short-stalked axillary racemes. Calyx silky, the teeth 

 narrow, acute. Pod linear, with 2-3 joints, clothed with white silky 

 hairs. — Onobrychis simplicifblia, R. Br. in Salt, App. lxv. ? 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Petit. 



33. ONOBRYCHIS, Gartn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 511. 



• Calyx-teeth subulate. Standard obovate, narrowed at the base, 

 scarcely unguiculate ; wings small ; keel obtuse, equalling or longer than 

 the standard. Upper stamen free at the base, connate with the others 

 at the middle in a closed tube ; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile, 1-2- 

 ovulate. Style filiform, inflexed, with a small terminal stigma. Pod 

 subcompressed, half or quite orbicular, inarticulated, indehiscent ; seeds 

 1-2. — Herbs or undershrubs. 



A large genus, principally Mediterranean. 



1. O. Richardi, Baker. Stem herbaceous, erect, densely clothed 

 with white tomentum. Stipules lanceolate, scarious. Leaves long- 

 stalked, the leaflets lanceolate or sublinear, glabrous above, silky be- 

 neath principally on the edge and veins. Racemes long-stalked, 

 equalling the leaves when in flower, twice as long when in fruit. 

 Pods suborbicular, emarginate at the base, densely setose-tomentose, 



