82 LABURNUM 



Ulex nanus, L. Dwarf Furze. 



(ii) Fruit not a legume, of 2 5 carpels and 

 splitting by as many valves ; hilum minute. 



(a) Seeds minute, numerous, comose. 



* Capsule 2-valved, small in the axils of 

 simple scales of a cylindrical catkin, which 

 is 5 10 cm. long; seeds numerous, minute, 

 and silky comose. 



f Fruiting catkins pendent ; scales incised. 



Catkins dense; scales dentate only, glabrous 

 or nearly so; capsule ovoid, glabrous. 



Fig. 83. Cytisus Laburnum, Laburnum, a, inflorescence (1/2) ; b, 

 flower ; c, calyx opened out ; d, standard ; e, wing ; /, keel ; g, pistil ; 

 h, stigma ; z, stamen ; k, ripe fruits ; Z, seed ; m, seed in longitudinal 

 section ; n, seed in transverse section. (After Schneider, except a and k 

 after Hempel and Wilhelm.) 



